Wednesday, December 2, 2009
I chose a book entitled CATS composed by Stephen C Lundin with Jimmy Tan as a book review .In summary, it is a globally accepted awareness that right now any individual, company or a country wishing to survive in the twenty first century, must develop the brain seemingly infinite capacity to create and to innovate .to develop these capacities you need excellent guidance and your own application to the task .innovation, but the perspective is personal and the potential results are both personal and organizational. Greater personal innovation can provide a clearer sense of purpose and greater satisfaction in life. Innovation makes life more vital, more interesting and more fun. To create life with meaning and satisfaction; innovation will help you get there. Innovation, personal or corporate-stems from a curiosity to solve a problem or do something better. Curiosity is a trait celebrated in people and cats; it is the very cornerstone of innovation .there is four basic challenges to personal innovation and then nine ways to meet these challenges. The four challenges are universal impediments to innovation. The nine ways are our personal assessment as to what is most important based on our life experience, our studies and our research, the four challenges: doubts and fears, normal (get outside norm to innovate), failure, and leading change. to innovate we must understand and embrace failure and leading change, fundamental to change is leadership, the leadership is more about support than about direction.Each of the four challenges must be met with one or more remedies (called lives),they principle- based solution s and they are called The nine lives of innovation ,overcoming the clutter of life with quietness to allow space for innovation, being with prepared minds, knowing that innovation is not normal: to understand how and why we evolved the way we have is one way to tell the effects of being normal , real provocation ,to escape the clutches of what is normal we can provoke our selves scenarios, objects and real world observations and stimulation from guided interaction with others , promote imaginary provocation to escape the containing power of norm, meeting failure with whimsy is the great way in order to learn ,failing early and well :learning from budding glitches and minimizing the cost of failure ,pounce on changes: humans and their customers and colleagues are effected by change ,within a large organization all innovation is change ,there is a special group of humans we called them leaders, they lead others through change ,those have achieved mastery of innovation and accepted responsibility for guiding, mentoring and supporting other humans seeking innovation .we called those cat wranglers they lead other cats through a labyrinth called change. To sustain a cat beyond nine lives; the thesis is that one can start with any one of the nine lives and live it more fully to increase the level of personal innovation and life satisfaction but go further by building innovation into your life in a disciplined and earn a cat belt .cat belt is fun way to recognize higher achievement in developing the skills and competencies that are at the foundation of innovation .to become a first degree Cat belt you must master one of the lives and in so doing counteract one of the challenges .a second degree master two lives and so on.
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