 einbar says: In her book, “Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine — and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It,” Cynthia Barton Rabe proposes bringing in outsiders whom she calls zero-gravity thinkers to keep creativity and innovation on track.“Look for people with renaissance-thinker tendencies, who’ve done work in a related area but not in your specific field,” she says. “Make it possible for someone who doesn’t report directly to that area to come in and say the emperor has no clothes.” When I was a child, I learned to calculate through several methods. Using a calculator was strictly forbidden unless it was part of a test. Nowadays students of the PABO (Dutch schools for future teachters) proof to have no head for figures at all. They are not able to reach the level which in the past, used to be normal for kids age 12. I think the reason for this poor outcome is that they were themselves raised in an age where only getting the right outcome mattered. Calculators and computers do the 'thinking', they write down the answers. The students of the PABO who were not able to improve their ability with numbers, were removed from school. Since there is allready a lack of teachers... A pickle of a paradox, dang that rolls off the tongue nicely enbar! I wonder if it is, in some cases, that years of innovation and swimming upstream leave one exhausted. |
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