Bea's first house

Weird ideas that work - Robert I Sutton

I saw this on amazon...

Weird Ideas that Work takes an unusual perspective. Professor Sutton is focusing on how companies can be more creative for tomorrow, while still being effective at delivering today's products and services. He chooses to call these ideas "weird" to get your attention, and to acknowledge that the ideas may not send too obviously correct to you the first few times you hear them.

The three key principles are:

1. increase variance in available knowledge
2. see old things in new ways
3. break from the past

The 11 1/2 "weird" ideas for implementing those principles are paraphrased below:

1. Hire smart people who will avoid doing things the same way your company has always done things. ( Diversify your talent and knowledge base, especially with people who get under your skin. )
2. Hire people with skills you don't need yet, and put them in untraditional assignments.
3. Use job interviews as a source of new ideas more than as a way to hire.
4. Give room for people to focus on what interests them, and to develop their ideas in their own way.
5. Help people learn how to be tougher in testing ideas, while being considerate of the people involved.
6. Focus attention on new and smarter attempts whether they succeed or not.
7. Use the power of self-confidence to encourage unconventional trials.
8. Use "bad" ideas to help reveal good ones.
9. Keep a balance between having too much and too little outside contact in your creative activities.
10. Have people with little experience and new perspectives tackle key issues.
11. Escape from the mental shackles of your organization's past successes.

Going swimming

 
 
  

Going to Luke & Claire's Wedding

  

Not sure

  

On the play mat

  

With mummy on Mother's day

  

 
  

  

  

  

Daddy Daughter Night

Monday night is daddy daughter night, I think I might have told you this before. You have been a bit grumpy - you won't have your bottle. Mummy tried to feed you, herself, then with the bottle then from a special baby cup. Nothing worked.

I took you upstairs to your crib and put on yout mobile, with the horse, elephant and GIraffe. For the first 10 mins you were delighted, smiling, cooing and kicking your little legs. You are grump again now and the only wat to stop you crying is to let you suck on my finger as I type.

good job i love you bumble-bee

wot u lookin at?

 
 

with mum

 
 
love the 1970's flick...nice

Smiler

 
 

B

 
 

B's chair

 
 

PJ Girl

 
 

Monday night

Now monday night is a good night for me as mummy has choir practise at Gloucester catherdral. Tonight, the plan is to gurgle along with you and iron some shirts, maybe watch TV too.

The weekend just gone was rather good fun as G&G Peace came to visit, then on Sunday we all went to see G&G Whitson.

Heave Ho

You were weighed today at the baby clinic. You new weight is 11 lbs 2 oz. However you haven't pooped for a few days so who knows how much you actually weigh and how much of a stinker it will be.