When Greg Dyke was head of the BBC, his vision was to make it the most creative organisation in the world. He therefore enlisted the help of the Stanford Research Institute, and a series of BBC executives attended programmes to teach them how to ‘waterhole’ new ideas. The process involved elevator pitches, affirmative and additive commentary, and iteration, until an innovation was finally born. Read More
The Archbishop of York has a lovely story about camels. There once was a Bedouin who had three sons and 17 camels. In his will he left half of his 17 camels to his elder son, one-third to his second son and one-ninth to his youngest son. Read More
