Det här med att alltid leta
Får jag välja så läser jag helst Kevin Kelly. Ett riktigt multigeni.
In the network economy, nine times out of ten, your fiercest competitor will not come from your own field. In turbulent times, when little is locked in, it is imperative to search as wide as possible for places where innovations erupt. Innovations increasingly interfect from other domains. A ceaseless blanket search—wide, easy, and shallow—is the only way you can be sure you will not be surprised. Don’t read trade magazines in your field; scan the magazines of other trades. Talk to anthropologists, poets, historians, artists, philosophers. Hire some 17-year-olds to work in your office. Make a habit to visit a web site at random. Tune in to talk radio. Take a class in scenario making. You’ll have a much better chance at recognizing the emergence of something important if you treat these remote venues as neighbors.
Och det där behöver på inget vis bara handla om affärsbiten, som det lätt kan kopplas till i sammanhanget av bloggens titel - New Rules for the New Economy, utan berör väl mer livet i stort kan jag tycka.
(New Rules for the New Economy - Searching as a way of life.)
