Comments for Greenhat Thinking

Comment on No natural limit by beejay

beejay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:25:13 +0000

Point well taken.In Cybernetics terminology it is called establishing different challels of communication and developing filters within each to regulate the traffic or flow of information. Human mind does the same. But the problem remains, in the sence, for what is useful for one may be vital for another .Likewise what is information for one may not be so for another.Efforts to reduce the problem are already on.

Comment on No natural limit by Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:59:03 +0000

Codes can confuse- yet I get the point.
We have long suffered the communication blizzard.
As with any storm, it will blow itself out and only those with mindful purpose and action will survive, with a great mass of others wittering, moaning and displaying, ignored in the background.
The time has come to better manage our communication, to return it to pre-blizzard levels. What we must avoid is further intellectual delusion converted to political decison.
Communication, like netWORKing, requires work to decipher and affirm.

Comment on No natural limit by Roger Remy

Roger Remy — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:49:19 +0000

The codes seems a good idea.
My concern : Important vs. Useful ? Either combine or explain rational of the difference.
Kind Regards,
Roger Remy
A daily user of 6 Hats thinking (and strong advocate) and occasional user of Lateral Thinking

Comment on More Design by Mark Abrahams

Mark Abrahams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:45:18 +0000

Design, and our understanding and application of design is key to our future and, dare I say it, our next stage of evolution. We have a next generation who can run, manage and use new technology way better than previous generations yet their understanding of design in context of such as the environment, society and culture appears to be lacking. I can only comment from a perspective of western and european culture – perhaps other cultures better understand design. It would good to research this topic.

Comment on In Recession by Dele

Dele — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:30:12 +0000

The problem with ideas is that on the whole they are not valuable. They are neither rare nor difficult to obtain if you know how to get them. The truth is that the world needs to get away from ‘inventive’ thinking, real innovation is about making small, progressive steps from where we are now. Great innovations are actually only small steps for the people who made them. If Crick and Watson, having researched the subject for years, did not find the double helix structure of DNA, then who on earth would?

In a recession, these small steps should be about cutting costs and increasing efficiency based on existing knowledge. Asking people to give you ideas, particularly in a stressful economic or personal climate, can be completely counter-productive if you do not first stress that you are not looking for invention.

Comment on Try me and find out! by Mark Abrahams

Mark Abrahams — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:23:21 +0000

There is no doubt that new ideas could and will be eventual solutions, converted into innovative outcomes. From experience, it is the problems nurturing and applying practical new ideas within organisations which are still not set up to enable new thinking that end up creating the barriers.
Can I request an idea to correct the generic ‘that’s my job your playing with’ mentality that managers at all levels use in their game plan or used in auto-reflex.
The thing is, many companies reckon they are already embracing innovation yet their culture remains constant during times of change or severe challenge, following the ‘there is too much to think about just doing the job under stress let alone finding time and money to facilitate inside the box thinking…that idea that just needs persuasion to scrape it out of the corner it has been wedged in for years.

Comment on New Book by Sarah Whiteside

Sarah Whiteside — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:50:05 +0000

A lot of worry about Climate Change and Credit Crunch here in the UK at the moment. The human race seems to be at fault in causing problems again. Two handy words, “change” and “crunch”, both of which suggest a shift of mindset. Climate change and Credit Crunch could be just the provocation to bring about a shift in the way we think, leading to better quality of life and reassessment of values.

Comment on Perception by Mark Abrahams

Mark Abrahams — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:31:43 +0000

In agreeing with the essence of De Bono’s blog I suggest that FEAR plays as big a part in misdirecting religiously bent perceptions.
This is not new.
Anyone with half of an intact brain, especially anyone who has experienced fear at the hands of others, knows that our modern day failures have been caused or brought about by fear.
So, over the ages, threat has been promoted by politicians and religious leaders alike – to ends which may not necessarily benefit the populous. Have recent events changed that fact?
Even in world of education, POWER remains the major threat to vital change.
How we educate our leaders is therefore the key. Again, we need applied Ghandi thinking.
In Iran, if we are to learn best what needs to be learned, we must observe the power of the voice of the people. They’ve done it before, with the Shar …and we’ve done it with Obama – for that was surely the result of international pressure of the mass voice – reaching in to a badly informed, self interested, previously poorly informed USA. The positives of Iraq? That!
If we are to arrive at a mutually acceptable vantage, a perception we can all share and agree to follow, like a plane endlessly adjusting its direction on a planned journey in which the perspective constantly changes, then we, in the creative thinking industries’, need a louder voice, accurate data on which to reinforce our view of the perspective…then movement, as a supportive and supported front, towards the drop off point.
Simply, we need to fly our ships so that they no longer keep returning to port, so continuing on our better guided voyage of discovery and application. That way lies the real change we seek.

Comment on Positive News Agency by Positive News

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Comment on A different sort of Logic! by Michael Wellin

Michael Wellin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Edward,

I enjoyed your comment about judgemental Greek logic. The other type of logic you refer to is already around in a way – its called ‘Mindfulness’. This is about how we experience things – as they are – rather than forcing them into a box which as you say the Greeks encouraged us to do. Its based on Buddhist thinking.

Its interesting when I do work with leaders, and particularly when coaching, I find that a significant part of my work is about helping people to reframe the way they see things – away from making the sort of judgemnts they habitually make, and you refer to in your comment. When we become more ‘Mindful’ we focus on how we experience things as they are, rather than force fitting them into a good/bad box.

This reminds me of one of the things I bang on about in my work – that unlearning is almost as important as learning. In other words unless we unlearn our old habitual ways of perceiving and thinking about things we cannot take on new ways.

My afternoon thoughts before I get on with my next piece of work!

Regards

Michael