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Dolls are supposed to be cute right? Not so according to UglyDolls. They designed their dolls to be the opposite of conventional wisdom.
UglyDolls might have asked themselves: What if we designed our product the wrong way? What if we made dolls that are ugly instead of cute?
According to WSJ, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School is trying to capture mistakes like this, with the idea that making mistakes on purpose is something that all of us could be taught. Today the business school named the winners of its first Brilliant Mistakes Contest, which awarded prizes (including Southwest Airlines tickets, free courses and conference tickets, and lunch with a contest judge) to people whose mistakes were the most productive.…
in Behavior, Innovation
@wadhwa why don’t more people disrupt themselves?
— Steve Koss (@SteveKoss) February 8, 2012
I spotted this tweet by fellow Renegade @stevekoss in response to this tweet by @wadhwa:
Technology increasingly going to disrupt industries. New jobs will be different, and require advanced skills
— Vivek Wadhwa (@wadhwa) February 8, 2012
One word: Inertia. But I also think it’s because people don’t know what reinvention even means. And since reinvention doesn’t happen in a heart beat, people have a hard time identifying anything that changed for the better.…
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Last week I gave a workshop on how to mine social networks for insights. I used Facebook’s Fan Pages as a use case. Many of the participants were surprised as they didn’t visit Fan Pages and thought most were spammy. They also said they didn’t like it when brands suddenly went off topic because businesses should be serious, not fun (dominant assumption calling to be turned upside down).
And boy were they surprised with what I told them next……
There were a lot more interesting reads this week, check out my Delicious bookmarks on Innovation for more.