Innovation Made Personal - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Innovation Made Personal - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Tom Kelley, the highly acclaimed general manager of IDEO and author of best-selling books on creativity, targets his thoughts on corporate creativity to the inexperienced student - and how the young innovator can learn to foster the nature of creativity for life. He urges entrepreneurial thinkers...
Orbiting the Giant Hairball - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Orbiting the Giant Hairball - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

IDEO's General Manager Tom Kelley relays a tale about artist and author Gordon MacKenzie. In his book, "Orbiting the Giant Hairball", MacKenzie asks school children from kindergarten through sixth grade if they consider themselves to be artists. While the enthusiasm for creative free expression seems to...
Thinking Like a Traveler - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Thinking Like a Traveler - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Like taking vitamins or exercising daily, Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, points out that fostering lifelong creativity depends on instituting good, healthy mental habits. This first habit on his list of five encourages thinkers to become hyper-aware of their environment, and to notice the common...
Field Observations with Fresh Eyes - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Field Observations with Fresh Eyes - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Design firm IDEO's General Manager Tom Kelley shares a case study that demonstrates the value opportunities that can arise when designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs see with fresh eyes. He cites his company's challenge to design a new children's toothbrush. Rather than scaling the product back -...
Treat Life As an Experiment - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Treat Life As an Experiment - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't. Just ask Thomas Edison, the makers of WD-40, and vacuum guru James Dyson - who collectively tested thousands of ideas before finding a handful that stuck. But the point behind the practice of experimentation in innovative thinking, says...
Cultivating an Attitude of Wisdom - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Cultivating an Attitude of Wisdom - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Be confident in what you know well, but be distrusting enough of what you don't know to keep yourself learning more at all times. This axiom will keep life-long learners of innovation thirsting to know more, broaden their skill set, and continuously second-guessing themselves in a...
Case Study: Best Buy's Failure to See Napster - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Case Study: Best Buy's Failure to See Napster - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

"It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that ain't so," says Mark Twain. And Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, cites this famous quote as an example of why it's important for creative minds to continue...
Using Your Whole Brain - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Using Your Whole Brain - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Fine tune your left brain, but don't overlook the opportunities to let your right brain make its mark. Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO, also discusses the use of the "hare" brain, meaning the aspects of thinking that we can control, and the "tortoise" brain, meaning...
Do What You Love - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

Do What You Love - Tom Kelley (IDEO)

You won't just be happier when you follow your passionate career path; you'll be better at it. IDEO's General Manager Tom Kelley quotes author Jim Collins who identifies a Venn diagram in every career path - the overlapping intersection of what you're good at, what you're...
Title: Innovation Made Personal - Tom Kelley (IDEO)
Speaker: Tom Kelley
Title/Company: IDEO
Length: 0:2:27
Date: 11/11/2008
Source: Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner
Description: Tom Kelley, the highly acclaimed general manager of IDEO and author of best-selling books on creativity, targets his thoughts on corporate creativity to the inexperienced student - and how the young innovator can learn to foster the nature of creativity for life. He urges entrepreneurial thinkers to resist the forces that chip away at creative energy, and encourages an effort toward innovation to remain young at heart.

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