I read with interest Business Week entitled why CEO's don't get innovation by Stefan Lindegaard another innovation speaker, network facilitator, and adviser on open innovation and intrapreneurship. He runs all the usual arguments about the inability of organisations to innovate, the spurious argument that leaders now emerging with MBAs are the first with innovation subjects in their degrees (that stat certainly doesn't stack up with our research which is telling us globally universities are failing badly with MBAs, most of whom don't have innovation in their programmes anyway) and summarises with this meaningless statement

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A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village. A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. "Not very long." they answered in unison. "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?" The fishermen explained that their small catches were sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families. "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

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The teminally hip, Fast Company have come up with a site entitled the 30second MBA. They have assembled a small faculty of on-line experts, combined Twitter and it looks like a Ning platform to create an on-line classroom operating in real time with a weekly syllabus. Week 13 topic is How Do I Prepare For A Presentation? The only concern I have is they haven't included the world's best presentation guru, Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen.

This is a neat way of learning and time will tell whether it is just more information rather than quality knowledge being offered. It certainly offers practical advice and after all isn't that what business is all about - practice!!

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