Thought Pieces
How will we build Australian innovation success? Tania de Jong AM, Founder Creative Universe, Creative Innovation Global and Creativity Australia
Thursday, 26 April 2012
At Creative Universe we are assisting Australian organisations to unlock a culture of creative leadership and innovation.
9 principles for innovation success are:
- Strong research universities with endowments
- Globally experienced repeat entrepreneurs
- Sophisticated risk capital
- Building social capital (links between innovation executives across sectors)
- Knowledge sharing across siloes
- Risk tolerance (We tend to have an enormous fear of failure in Australia.)
- Creative destruction of obsolete or unsuccessful ventures to build new ones
- Learning from constructive failures
- Positive returns for entrepreneurs and supportive government policies
Join us at Creative Innovation 2012 – Asia Pacific to connect with leaders and emerging leaders across sectors. Ci2012 will take place 28-30 November 2012 at Sofitel Melbourne On Collins, Melbourne, Australia. Save the date NOW!
WICKED PROBLEMS, GREAT OPPORTUNITIES! Leadership and Courage in Volatile Times
2012 began precariously. The global economy swings between signs of recovery and predictions of imminent collapse. Businesses appear paralysed. Though many are cash-rich, they’re risk-averse, strategically incremental and lacking in fresh ideas and innovation. The world needs leadership, invention and daring now more than ever. We need audacity not austerity. We need to attack big, wicked, problems that improve the economy and society as a whole. Bold ideas that represent real business opportunities, that spark a revolution for courage and change.
Building on Ci2010 and Ci2011, over 40 innovators, thinkers and business leaders will present valuable strategies, stories and insights to create an interactive event of a lifetime.
To engage with a range of our transformational leadership programs and unlock you and your team’s potential, please visit www.inspiringminds.net.au
Report: The C-Factors by Allison & Partners
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
How creativity, collaboration & culture will re-energise today’s global economy.
Click here to read the report.
Find your Passion and Purpose – Tania de Jong AM, Founder and CEO, Creative Universe and Creative Innovation Global
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
1. Think about what you love to do and your current strengths, skills and experience. List them down.
2. Get creative. Look forward to consider things you’d like to do.
3. Learn, never give up. See the gap and what you need to reach your goal… More training, guidance, mentoring, money, contacts etc.
4. Take the holistic approach. Look at your whole life, not just career but hobbies, interests, things you love, aspirations etc.
5. Consider all options at a body, mind and spirit level = Optioneering
6. Create your own white board of life and assess these options
7. QUESTION: What do you need to do to get from here to there?
8. See the end result of your vision in action (not the obstacles to get there)
9. Reverse engineer the steps to reach your goal
10. Develop a diverse support group… Friends, family, mentor, colleagues…ask them for their support.
11. Take massive action. Profound, powerful, absorbing, passionate action. Don’t give up!
12. Make a difference to others along the way
What people have said about Ci2011…
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
“What an inspiring, insightful, and inventive conference this was. From entrepreneurship to the latest trends in society and the world, Ci2011 lived up to its creative and innovative name. Brilliantly organized too!” Ray Kurzweil
“Most folk content themselves with a conference of a few talking heads, some conversations, and good catering, but you went a stellar mile beyond that with a conference that was filled with a portfolio of possibilities, a cornucopia of conversation. I loved every moment, every chat, every bubble!” Professor Stephen Heppell
“Ci2011 was an astonishing and dazzling array of minds and speakers and we feel excited, stimulated and energised and already have tons of ideas for our own work. It was wonderful to be with so many like-minded people and everyone was abuzz connecting and learning from each other. The conference was also superbly organised, presented and every detail was exquisite right to the ginger ice-cream on the last day! Congratulations on a world class event.”
“I will treasure many of the inspiring presentations and challenging discussions from so many distinguished presenters forever.”
“In my 30 years of attending conferences this was the best conference ever…inspirational!”
“I’ve never seen a conference put together like an artwork before. It was a stunning achievement of vision, serendipity, generosity of spirit and organisation.”
“Life changing event…I was blown away. Compelling speakers and high quality attendees. When is the next event?”
“I’ve been to a lot of conferences and CI2011 was definitely the best. Well done.”
Ci2011 – Highlights
Monday, 21 November 2011
Ci2011 Opening Poem
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Opening Poem
Philip Salom, Poet in Residence Ci2011
Twenty years ago, late at night, I sat alone.
I would hibernate with faxes and a phone.
Like a zither player: on a many-stringed instrument,
one player, in silence, plucking slow and digital music.
But a Chinese zither uses twenty-five variations of vibrato,
its possibilities are endless, and now it’s playing on YouTube!
And now I live with all the Gods of endless connections,
slow is very fast, I’m up all hours, on all sides I am the vibrato
of information, in its heaven or chaos, of neurons and axons.
We all live in its language, but information isn’t truth, it’s data.
It seeds the crazy wastefulness that makes things happen.
Data shines, it bursts on us repeatedly: but we are the mind
truth emerges from. In the changing shapes that change
us in their making, there inside them, we are the music.
