Definition of the creative director
Oh boy, still a few obstacles to overcome… To summarize, what is most generally characteristic of the creative [director]… is his high level of effective intelligence, his openness to…
The Eastern Creative Process
The significant difference between the Western and Eastern worldviews is basically that we see everything in a dualistic way, while in the east everything is seen as one. An all-encompassing,…
The Western creative process
Creativity has been studied from even more disparate angles over a much longer time period than automation or technology. It has been called a research backwater that mostly produced scattered…
The Chinese Renaissance
Thoughts on a lecture by David Gosset The Chinese are re-emerging – Confucius is back – Industry 4.0 – How to be more Chinese Another master of storytelling, David Gosset, brought…
Andy Sandoz speaks
During one of the Berlin School residencies we had Andy Sandoz as guest speaker. A public talk at Scholz & Friends in Berlin Mitte was followed by a more intimate workshop the day after. London…
A Critical Reflection on Chinese Business & Society
Chinese science and technology stagnated – Latour’s visualization and cognition The Chinese are used to do everything within a framework. Confucianism, the empire, communism, the Chinese…
What the Chinese Want
Doctoroff’s dualism a contradiction – a pig farmer I didn’t understand There’s freedom within a framework, tells Tom Doctoroff us with forceful voice. Stability is good, the absolute good even,…
The secret history of Silicon Valley
To meet serial-entrepreneur Steve Blank at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View was unreal. Blank is known amongst entrepreneurs and students as one of the “The Godfathers of Silicon…
Find your inner misfit
The Misfit Economy proposes 5 steps to unleash your inner misfit. During the Summer 2015 EMBA module in Berlin we had the chance to join a public lecture with Alexa Clay organized by the Berlin…
Meeting Watson
Ibm Watson the First Computer to Win a Jeopardy Prize Pot of 1 Million Dollars That morning we reach the IBM Watson Centre on Madison Avenue. The street Madison Avenue has been metonymous with the…