Comments on: Is the crisis making us smarter and more creative? http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/archives/546 brought to you by Porter Novelli Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Lodengrun14 http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/archives/546/comment-page-1#comment-162 Lodengrun14 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:12:18 +0000 http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/?p=546#comment-162 There's just so much more time to be creative when you're not spending it posturing or pontificating. Since most of us now manifestly know absolutely nothing about what will happen next, we can just get on with whatever we enjoy/find cool/spiritually fulfilling/can sell off the back of the truck. There's just so much more time to be creative when you're not spending it posturing or pontificating. Since most of us now manifestly know absolutely nothing about what will happen next, we can just get on with whatever we enjoy/find cool/spiritually fulfilling/can sell off the back of the truck.

]]> By: Lodengrun14 http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/archives/546/comment-page-1#comment-118 Lodengrun14 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:12:18 +0000 http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/?p=546#comment-118 There's just so much more time to be creative when you're not spending it posturing or pontificating. Since most of us now manifestly know absolutely nothing about what will happen next, we can just get on with whatever we enjoy/find cool/spiritually fulfilling/can sell off the back of the truck. There's just so much more time to be creative when you're not spending it posturing or pontificating. Since most of us now manifestly know absolutely nothing about what will happen next, we can just get on with whatever we enjoy/find cool/spiritually fulfilling/can sell off the back of the truck.

]]> By: jsheets http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/archives/546/comment-page-1#comment-117 jsheets Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:10:39 +0000 http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/?p=546#comment-117 I totally agree. Hard times not only inspire creative thinking, but force people to ask themselves "What can I do with what I've got?" Let's watch as innovation takes shape in 2009 through online tools. I totally agree. Hard times not only inspire creative thinking, but force people to ask themselves “What can I do with what I've got?” Let's watch as innovation takes shape in 2009 through online tools.

]]> By: StuartHarris http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/archives/546/comment-page-1#comment-116 StuartHarris Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:23:14 +0000 http://pnintelligentdialogue.com/?p=546#comment-116 Tough times do indeed spur resourceful and creative people.<br><br>As regards the scare words ("nationalization" -- aaargh!!!) and other no-nos of American life, I'm planning a re-read of Joseph Heller's masterful Catch-22, which may well be the "meme" equivalent of the American genome. Among other gems of insight, Major Major Major's father receives a farm subsidy for every crop of alfalfa that he does not grow with his farmland and uses this money to buy more land to not grow alfalfa on. He believes that federal aid to anyone but farmers is "creeping socialism".<br><br>The resourcefulness and creativity required now and going forward is not just for inventing gadgets and business models, it's for finding pragmatic new approaches to dealing with huge and complex issues. In these angstful times, there are big current risks (banks collapsing, civil unrest etc.) but even bigger risks in doing what we did before collectively - rushing full speed ahead but headless, relying on voodoo economics and/or ideology. Tough times do indeed spur resourceful and creative people.

As regards the scare words (”nationalization” — aaargh!!!) and other no-nos of American life, I'm planning a re-read of Joseph Heller's masterful Catch-22, which may well be the “meme” equivalent of the American genome. Among other gems of insight, Major Major Major's father receives a farm subsidy for every crop of alfalfa that he does not grow with his farmland and uses this money to buy more land to not grow alfalfa on. He believes that federal aid to anyone but farmers is “creeping socialism”.

The resourcefulness and creativity required now and going forward is not just for inventing gadgets and business models, it's for finding pragmatic new approaches to dealing with huge and complex issues. In these angstful times, there are big current risks (banks collapsing, civil unrest etc.) but even bigger risks in doing what we did before collectively – rushing full speed ahead but headless, relying on voodoo economics and/or ideology.

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