Bookshelf: Innovation Reading

Last week, Innovation Excellence released their suggested innovation readings for 2014, ranging from established classics to more recent releases. The book’s subjects focus on everything from “disruptive innovation”, unleashing creativity and the importance of collaboration in innovation. Suggested titles include Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown, The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen, Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson, and his TED talk of the same title.

Bookshelf: What We’re Reading

There’s a lot happening these days at Wert&Co.–reflected in six books we would like to share with you. We’ve been preparing for a few talks and seeking to understand ourselves and our work more deeply, finding inspiration from the self discovery of childhood to the wisdom (hopefully) gained over the years. This month we also mourned the loss of John Berger who’s seminal Ways of Seeing provided us not just with a tool to view art in a revolutionary way, but a tool to understand critically the images that surround us. Finally with data ruling the day, in both politics and our work, we’ve found ourselves recently in a deep dive on both the mechanics, design and ethics of this fascinating subject.

Posted in In theory, Pattern recognition, Reading list

Oh yes, the planet is sublime!

I have a crazy,
crazy love of things.
I like pliers,
and scissors.
I love
cups,
rings,
and bowls –
not to speak, of course,
of hats.
I love
all things,
not just
the grandest,
also
the
infinite-
ly
small–
thimbles,
spurs,
plates,
and flower vases.
Oh yes,
the planet
is sublime!