Carl Klutzke ([info]sirvalence) wrote,
@ 2007-02-11 08:16:00
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IDEO's "Ten Faces"
Article about the ten personas that are critical to building an innovation culture. (uiGarden.net)

I might be something of a Cross-Pollinator. I'm getting better at being an Anthropologist, but I'm not there yet. I should be an Experimenter, but I still have this problem where I see failed experiments as a waste of time rather than a new source of information: I need to get past that. I haven't developed the people skills for any of the Organizing personas, but I could maybe be a Collaborator someday. I aspire to being an Experience Architect.


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[info]lintra
2007-02-11 02:23 pm UTC (link)
I think I'm probably a Hurdler - which sometimes gets one into trouble!

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[info]sirvalence
2007-02-12 01:00 pm UTC (link)
I have a morbid fear of getting into trouble. I'm sure it's unhealthy.

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[info]arenson9
2007-02-11 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Why aren't you talking about being a Storyteller?!

"compelling narra-tives that communicate a fundamental human value"

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[info]sirvalence
2007-02-11 03:20 pm UTC (link)
A Storyteller in this context is one propogates the company culture by, essentially, creating legends about positive things the company has done. I could do that, I think, but it's not something I've ever done historically. It's not creating fiction, which I prefer to think about, but writing emotionally moving narratives of non-fiction. A good example of this at my current employer is our town hall "Miracles of Modern Medicine" segment, where someone tells about how the research our company does has directly impacted their life, or the life of someone they care about. I don't do that, but I suppose I could.

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[info]arenson9
2007-02-12 12:29 am UTC (link)
This points out just how much I'm not a Storyteller in the Robin's Laws sense. I get impatient with stories that aren't real.

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[info]sirvalence
2007-02-12 12:59 pm UTC (link)
Really?! I wouldn't have guessed that. Are you talking about creating stories that aren't real, or hearing stories that aren't real? Do you prefer documentaries, or dramatizations of real events, over movies of fictional events?

I personally find fiction an useful tool to understand the abstract principles underlying reality, which have a truth more universal than any particular real event. And then there's the escapism.

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Spoof of Ten Faces of Innovation
(Anonymous)
2007-04-03 03:22 pm UTC (link)
You might enjoy this spoof of IDEO's book, The Ten Faces of Innovation at:

http://cantankerousconsultant.blogspot.com/2007/03/ten-faces-of-innovation.html

Dieter Prucker
The Cantankerous Consultant
http://cantankerousconsultant.blogspot.com/

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