I wonder why it is when we want to discuss innovation and how to achieve that we have a tendency to turn to eastern philosophy? Is it because the managerial mind finds innovation such a magical and foreign concept that it must equate it to ancient Asian thought.
The sad truth is you don't need to go any further than the minds from the shores of these United States to see historical innovation on a grand scale. I cannot think of a more innovative and an agile innovation than modern air traffic control and its roots in the Berlin Airlift of 1948 / 49 at the height of the Cold War.
To date, the United States has been the only country that has successfully landed humans on the moon and have safely returned them to the Earth.
There is no place on Earth that graduates as many people from universities as does the United States. Almost any aspect of computerization has been birthed in the United States including the Internet whose early development was funded almost entirely by US taxpayers.
Of course, part of this I believe is our desire to succeed allows us to take ideas from anywhere that they present themselves which is why looking at eastern philosophy is relevant. I just wish we gave ourselves much more credit than we do.
FYI the link in reference 1 is broken. It tries to go to a LinkedIn page (which yields 404) instead of directly to the article you're referencing.
Thanks, Eric. It should be fixed now.
I wonder why it is when we want to discuss innovation and how to achieve that we have a tendency to turn to eastern philosophy? Is it because the managerial mind finds innovation such a magical and foreign concept that it must equate it to ancient Asian thought.
The sad truth is you don't need to go any further than the minds from the shores of these United States to see historical innovation on a grand scale. I cannot think of a more innovative and an agile innovation than modern air traffic control and its roots in the Berlin Airlift of 1948 / 49 at the height of the Cold War.
To date, the United States has been the only country that has successfully landed humans on the moon and have safely returned them to the Earth.
There is no place on Earth that graduates as many people from universities as does the United States. Almost any aspect of computerization has been birthed in the United States including the Internet whose early development was funded almost entirely by US taxpayers.
Of course, part of this I believe is our desire to succeed allows us to take ideas from anywhere that they present themselves which is why looking at eastern philosophy is relevant. I just wish we gave ourselves much more credit than we do.