Comments on: Innovation by Ambivalence http://www.businesspundit.com/innovation-by-ambivalence/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mehdi hassan http://www.businesspundit.com/innovation-by-ambivalence/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 mehdi hassan Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:26:53 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2876#comment-1529 I agree with Alexander kjerulf. He said, "Change that is deeply effective and positive presents a paradoxical challenge. On the one hand, there needs to be an appreciation and acceptance of how things are in the here and now. On the other hand, there needs to be an active intention to make things better. Nothing needs to change, and everything can improve. This is the way to avoid the two extremist traps of activist’s frustration or pessimistic complacency." I agree with Alexander kjerulf. He said, “Change that is deeply effective and positive presents a paradoxical challenge. On the one hand, there needs to be an appreciation and acceptance of how things are in the here and now. On the other hand, there needs to be an active intention to make things better. Nothing needs to change, and everything can improve. This is the way to avoid the two extremist traps of activist’s frustration or pessimistic complacency.”

]]> By: Alexander Kjerulf http://www.businesspundit.com/innovation-by-ambivalence/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Alexander Kjerulf Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:36:16 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2876#comment-1528 I think you're exactly right, Rob. Few people spend life entirely happy or unhappy - at any given time you have plenty of reason to be either or both. I like your thought that embracing the duality gives you a wider perspective and drive. Patch Adams said this in his excellent book, Gesundheit: Change that is deeply effective and positive presents a paradoxical challenge. On the one hand, there needs to be an appreciation and acceptance of how things are in the here and now. On the other hand, there needs to be an active intention to make things better. Nothing needs to change, and everything can improve. This is the way to avoid the two extremist traps of activist’s frustration or pessimistic complacency. When you combine it with the recent post you pointed to about Teresa Amibile which concluded that people have rich emotional lives at work and we get a clearer picture of how we feel at work and how creativity happens. Thanks for another great link - your blog is a great source of inspiration to me. I think you’re exactly right, Rob. Few people spend life entirely happy or unhappy – at any given time you have plenty of reason to be either or both.

I like your thought that embracing the duality gives you a wider perspective and drive.

Patch Adams said this in his excellent book, Gesundheit:
Change that is deeply effective and positive presents a paradoxical challenge. On the one hand, there needs to be an appreciation and acceptance of how things are in the here and now. On the other hand, there needs to be an active intention to make things better. Nothing needs to change, and everything can improve. This is the way to avoid the two extremist traps of activist’s frustration or pessimistic complacency.

When you combine it with the recent post you pointed to about Teresa Amibile which concluded that people have rich emotional lives at work and we get a clearer picture of how we feel at work and how creativity happens.

Thanks for another great link – your blog is a great source of inspiration to me.

]]> By: Alexandra Levit http://www.businesspundit.com/innovation-by-ambivalence/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Alexandra Levit Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:23:10 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2876#comment-1527 Hi Rob, I like where you're going with this, and I think you're right about the fact that when people are in conflict, they're actively thinking of ways to resolve the conflict, which leads to more thinking and creativity in general. But what do you think is the relationship between an unusual working environment and cognitive dissonance? I get why hanging bicycles might inspire creativity, but am not seeing why this would invite mixed emotions in employees. Hi Rob, I like where you’re going with this, and I think you’re right about the fact that when people are in conflict, they’re actively thinking of ways to resolve the conflict, which leads to more thinking and creativity in general. But what do you think is the relationship between an unusual working environment and cognitive dissonance? I get why hanging bicycles might inspire creativity, but am not seeing why this would invite mixed emotions in employees.

]]> By: laurence haughton http://www.businesspundit.com/innovation-by-ambivalence/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 laurence haughton Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:12:32 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=2876#comment-1526 Rob, how many people do you think embrace "conflict and cognitive dissonance?" I don't know about the meaning of life but business seems to require one to avoid "conflict and cognitive dissonance." link to the meaning of cognative dissonance <a href="http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm</a> Rob, how many people do you think embrace “conflict and cognitive dissonance?” I don’t know about the meaning of life but business seems to require one to avoid “conflict and cognitive dissonance.” link to the meaning of cognative dissonance http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm

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