Qi Bud

- QI - The energy to live that will make buds grow, exist and maybe deliver a result or disappear - BUD - small piece of something that can grow, blossom, become a branch and have new buds "A bud is a philosophical representation of a human thought; the qi is the energy between thoughts, humans, communities ..." Gilles R. QiBud Founder

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Intelligence Collective ? 

"Une intelligence partout distribuée, sans cesse valorisée, coordonnée en temps réel, qui aboutit à une mobilisation effective des compétences"

Pierre Lévy

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What is innovation?

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Robert Steven Kaplan: Mentorship as Dialogue (by Big Think)

 A leader figure out what he believes

 A leader have the guts and the ability to act on what he believes

His actions will add value to someone else

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[stanfordgsb]

“Visual thinking is the foundation for being creative and solving some of the most complex problems,” explained author and founder of Innovation Studio Lisa Kay Solomon. Solomon and Emily Shepard of The Graphic Distillery discussed the key role of visual thinking in innovation at a recent

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the average founder of a high-tech startup isn’t a whiz-kid graduate, but a mature 40-year-old engineer or business type with a spouse and kids who simply got tired of working for others

Innovation Grows Among Older Workers - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

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Alex Atala on creativity and innovation in cuisine.

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RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (by The RSA)

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[sebastienflury]

There is a recurrent question coming to me for really early stage startup, who haven’t incorporated: how do we get investors without giving the majority of shares in my startup from day one?

For people who already have gone through the process, or for experienced people, that seems easy and...

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Some extracts : 

As performance pressures mount, firms are reacting by taking short-term measures and pushing hard on employment and payroll as the principal cost-cutting levers.

Workers are in pain with complex, overwhelming, matrixed responsibilities. Employee engagement in the workplace continues to fall when they consider their employer’s loyalty to their “most-valued-assets” simply as lip service.

Currently, 30% of the U.S. workforce is engaged in their work, and the ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees is roughly 2-to-1, meaning that the vast majority of U.S. workers (70%) are not reaching their full potential 

The need to collaborate with more people across geographically dispersed teams with numerous contractors and agencies, creates a spaghetti (alt Jackson Pollack inspired maze) of responsibilities that is difficult to track and measure

We need a new movement of Work Hackers, change agents actively transforming how they work on an individual level, and collectively becoming a powerful lever