Create Your Own Luck

http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/15629847088/this-is-how-you-can-create-your-own-luck-miikka

I know it works.

Stephen

This is a fun video:

Twelve Animals: Piece Together for Peace

http://www.graflexdirections.com/project/piecepeace/01/

Check out the video animation.

Stephen

I do like curated lists like these.

Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011

http://www.innovationexcellence.com/directory

http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2011/12/31/top-40-innovation-bloggers-of-2011/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+business-strategy-innovation+%28Innovation+Excellence%29

Mitch Ditkoff Mitch Ditkoff is the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions and the author of “Awake at the Wheel”, as well as the very popular Heart of Innovationblog.

Jeffrey Phillips Jeffrey Phillips is a senior leader at OVO Innovation. OVO works with large distributed organizations to build innovation teams, processes and capabilities. Jeffrey is the author of “Make us more Innovative”, and innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com.

Paul Hobcraft Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to organizations core capabilities.

Idris Mootee Idris Mootee is the CEO of Idea Couture, a strategic innovation and experience design firm. He is the author of four books, many published articles, and a frequent speaker at business conferences and executive retreats.

Tim Kastelle Tim Kastelle is a Lecturer in Innovation Management in the University of Queensland Business School. He blogs about innovation at the Innovation Leadership Network.

Mike Brown Mike Brown is an award-winning innovator in strategy, communications, and experience marketing. He authors the Brainzooming^TM blog, and serves as the company’s chief Catalyst. He wrote the ebook “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation” and is a frequent keynote presenter.

Melba Kurman Melba Kurman writes and speaks about innovative tech transfer from university research labs to the commercial marketplace.  Melba is the president of Triple Helix Innovation, a consulting firm dedicated to improving innovation partnerships between companies and universities.

Caspar Van Rijnbach Caspar van Rijnbach is a Brazilian based innovation consultant, author of several international publications. Caspar leads the Innovation Management department at Ernst & Young in Brazil.

Dennis Stauffer Dennis Stauffer is the award winning author of Thinking Clockwise, A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader. He’s the founder of Innovator Mindset, helping individuals, teams and organizations boost their capacity to innovate. A copy of his new report, Innovation Essentials: The Four Greatest Ways We stop Ourselves…In Business and in Life can be downloaded at: http://innovatormindset.com/specialreport.htm

Gijs van Wulfen Gijs van Wulfen leads ideation processes and is the founder of the FORTH innovation method. He is the author of Creating Innovative Products & Services, published by Gower.

Venessa Miemis Venessa Miemis is a Media Studies graduate student at the New School in NYC, exploring what happens at the intersection of technology, culture, and communication. Connect with her at www.emergentbydesign.com and on Twitter @venessamiemis.

Jeffrey Baumgartner Jeffrey Baumgartner is the founder of jpb.com, makers of Jenni innovation process management software. He also edits Report 103, a popular eJournal on business innovation. Contact Jeffrey at jeffreyb@jpb.com or visit http://www.jpb.com/

Rowan Gibson Rowan Gibson is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on enterprise innovation. He is a co-founder of Innovation Excellence and author of the bestseller Innovation to the Core. Rowan Gibson is a much in-demand public speaker around the globe. On Twitter he is @RowanGibson

Robert Tucker Robert B. Tucker is the President of The Innovation Resource Consulting Group. He is a speaker, seminar leader and an expert in the management of innovation and assisting companies in accelerating ideas to market.

Jose Baldaia Jose Baldaia blogs about innovation in English and Portuguese at Intuinovare and on Twitter he is @Jabaldaia.

Braden Kelley Braden Kelley is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. Braden is also an Innovation Excellence co-founder, a popular innovation speakerand trainer, and advises companies on connecting with their customers and embedding innovation across the organization.

Stefan Lindegaard Stefan Lindegaardis a speaker, network facilitator and strategic advisor who focus on the topics of open innovation, intrapreneurship and how to identify and develop the people who drive innovation.

Drew Boyd Drew Boyd is Assistant Professor of Marketing and Innovation at the University of Cincinnati and Executive Director of the MS-Marketing program. Follow him at www.innovationinpractice.com and at http://twitter.com/drewboyd

Paul Sloane Paul Sloane writes, speaks and leads workshops on creativity, innovation and leadership. He is the author of The Innovative Leader and editor of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing, both published by Kogan-Page.

Mike Shipulski Dr. Mike Shipulski (certfied TRIZ practioner) brings together the best of TRIZ, Axiomatic Design, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (2006 DFMA Contributor of the Year), and lean to develop new products and technologies. His blog can be found at Shipulski On Design.

Stephen Shapiro Stephen Shapiro is the author of five books including “Best Practices Are Stupid” and “Personality Poker” (both published by Penguin).  He is also a popular innovation speaker and business advisor.

Robert F Brands Robert Brands is the founder of InnovationCoach.com, and the author of “Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival,” with Martin Kleinman – published Spring 2010 by Wiley (www.robertsrulesofinnovation.com).

Paul Williams Paul Williams is a professional problem solver at Idea Sandbox. He can help you create remarkable ideas to grow your business. You may read more at his website and find him Twittering as @IdeaSandbox.

Kevin McFarthing Kevin McFarthing runs the Innovation Fixerconsultancy, helping companies to improve the output and efficiency of their innovation, and to implement Open Innovation. He spent 17 years with Reckitt Benckiser in innovation leadership positions, and also has experience in life sciences.

Steve Todd Steve Todd is Director at EMC Innovation Network, and a high-tech inventor and book author “Innovate With Global Influence“. An EMC Intrapreneur with over 180 patent applications and billions in product revenue, he writes about innovation on his personal blog, the Information Playground. Twitter: @SteveTodd

Nicolas Bry Nicolas Bry is a Senior VP at Orange. He’s developed strong expertise in innovation management, creating digital business units with international challenges. He completed a professional thesis on rapid innovationat HEC Business School.

Donna Sturgess Donna Sturgess is the President and Co-founder of Buyology Inc and former Global Head of Innovation for GlaxoSmithKline. Her latest book is Eyeballs Out: How To Step Into Another World, Discover New Ideas, and Make Your Business Thrive

Jorge Barba Jorge Barba is an Innovation Insurgent and is the Creative Strategist at Blu Maya, a San Diego based Digital Marketing Firm that helps organizations build their online business with strategy development for new products and services. He’s also the author of the innovation blog Game Changer. And lastly, you can follow him on Twitter @jorgebarba.

Kamal Hassan Kamal Hassan is President and CEO of Innovation 360 Institute, an innovation management and operation advisory group based in Dubai. Mr. Hassan works with both public and private organizations on business model innovation, innovation strategy, innovation project execution and organizational change. In July and August, Mr. Hassan will be leading workshops on Business Model Innovation and Design in Istanbul, Turkey and Denver, CO (USA). For more information, visit www.i360institute.com.

Sarah Miller Caldicott Sarah Miller Caldicott, is an innovation author and great grandniece of Thomas Edison.  She is co-author of Innovate Like Edison, and author Inventing the Future: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today? Sarah is professional speaker, and the Founder/CEO of Power Patterns of Innovation.

Kevin Roberts Kevin Roberts is the CEO worldwide of The Lovemarks Company, Saatchi & Saatchi. For more information on Kevin, please go to www.saatchikevin.com. To see this blog at its original source, please go to www.krconnect.blogspot.com.

Moises NorenaMoises Norena is Global Director of Innovation at Whirlpool, where he leads a team on the infrastructure that enables innovation.  Whirlpool is a company recognized for its commitment to making innovation an enterprise capability by engaging employees in the discipline.

Maria Paula Oliveira Maria Paula Oliveira is the Manager of Corporate Innovation at Serasa Experianand Experian Latin America, a major credit and marketing information corporation. Her core expertise includes innovation management, market analysis, trends identification, business development, negotiation, strategic planning, competitive intelligence and marketing. Maria Paula is both an American and Brazilian citizen.

Hutch Carpenter Hutch Carpenter is the Vice President of Product at Spigit. Spigitintegrates social collaboration tools into a SaaS enterprise idea management platform used by global Fortune 2000 firms to drive innovation.

Saul Kaplan Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF).  Saul shares innovation musings on his blog at It’s Saul Connectedand on Twitter at @skap5.

Holly G Green Holly is the CEO of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc. (www.TheHumanFactor.biz) and is a highly sought after and acclaimed speaker, business consultant, and author. Her unique approach to creating strategic agility, helping others go slow to go fast, will change your thinking.

Mike Myatt Mike Myatt, is a Top CEO Coach, author of “Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual“, and Managing Director of N2Growth.

Deborah Mills-Scofield Deb, founder of Mills-Scofield LLC, is an innovator, entrepreneur and non-traditional strategist with 20 years experience in industries ranging from the Internet to Manufacturing with multinationals to start ups. She is also a partner at Glengary LLC, a Venture Capital Firm.

Adam Hartung Adam Hartung, author of “Create Marketplace Disruption“, is a Faculty and Board member of the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Managing Partner of Spark Partners, and writes for “Forbes” and the “Journal for Innovation Science.”

Julie Anixter Julie Anixter is Chief Innovation Officer at Maga Designand the managing editor and co-founder of Innovation Excellence.  She worked with Tom Peters for five years on bringing big ideas to big audiences.  Now she works with the US Military and other high test innovation cultures that make a difference.

Just a few things to surf for fun.

Stephen

Download the pdf of Consumerlab’s report “Talking, Texting, Poking, and Dating”

http://www.21stcenturyfluency.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2410

Does this match your observations. We (at Gale) recently counted the number of people who identified themselves as librarians or library workers on LinkedIn and discovered over 104,000 folks.  I find this interesting.  We get more connected every day.  Where will it plateau?

INFOGRAPHIC: Generation Y, Employment And Facebook

“Young people are using Facebook for personal over professional reasons, yet they are friending their coworkers.

A new study by Millennial Branding, of over 50 million Facebook data points from Identified.com, uncovers that people aged 18 to 29 are  inadvertently using their profiles as an extension of their professional personality, even though they are socializing with family and friends.

And 64 percent of so-called generation y fails to list their employer on their profiles, yet they add an average of 16 coworkers each to their friend group.

“Gen y needs to be aware that what they publish online can come back to haunt them in the workplace. Gen y managers and co-workers have insight into their social lives, which could create an awkward workplace setting or even result in a termination,” says Dan Schawbel, Founder of Millennial Branding.

Identified.com is the largest professional database on Facebook. Identified’s database includes over 50 million Facebook users and 1.2 billion data points on professionals’ work history, education and demographic data.  They assembled a world class team of 15 engineers and data scientists to analyze this vast database and identify interesting trends, patterns and correlations. The Generation Y study pulled on November 15, 2011 identified four million Generation Y users (ages 18 to 29) and approximately one million users listing a job entry. 9 percent of these users were in the U.S.

Other major findings in this study were:

• 80 percent of gen y list at least one school entry on their Facebook profiles, while only 36 percent list a job entry. They define themselves by their colleges instead of their workplaces.
• They spend an average of just over two years at their first job. They are job hopping multiple times in their careers.
• Only seven percent of gen y work for a Fortune 500 company because startups are dominating the workforce for this demographic in today’s economy. If large corporations want to remain competitive, they need to aggressively recruit gen y workers. Gen y will form 75 percent of the workforce by 2025 and are actively shaping corporate culture and expectations. Big corporations can’t afford to be left behind.
• “Owner” is the fifth most popular job title for gen y  because they are an entrepreneurial generation. Even though most of their companies won’t succeed, they are demonstrating an unprecedented entrepreneurial spirit. Companies need to allow gen y’ers to operate entrepreneurially within the corporation by giving them control over their time, activities and budgets as much as possible.
• The travel and hospitality industry hires the most gen y candidates now because young people are having trouble getting internships and jobs so they turn to bartending and waitressing jobs.
• The U.S.military is the largest gen y employer overall, and Deloitte is the largest corporate employer. Companies such as Walmart and Starbucks ranked high and should focus on training their in-store workers to become corporate employees when they graduate.”

Stephen