Interesting Finds

Ouliers: The Story of Success
2008 book by Malcolm Gladwell author of Tipping Point and Blink... should be interesting.
http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html

Interesting articles published within the AIGA website.
(It was pulled from "DesignIntelligence, is excerpted from Richard Farson’s newest book, The Power of Design: A Force for Transforming Everything" (I just might go check these out next.)
Leadership is THE Strategic Issue
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/leadership-is-the-strategic-issue

I am currently typing up my notes on companies featured, from the Twin Cities and Toronto, in Communication Arts Magazine: Design Annual. Also typing up notes from Mpls St Paul Magazine November issue "The Best Brains".

Just Found

Charles Leadbeater on innovation and new ideas
http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx

Philoctetes, The Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination
http://philoctetes.org/home/

Description of Exploration

The previously listed articles are, what I feel, worthy of digestion. Digestion, of what I believe, is a new industry utilizing "Design Thinking" (a term currently being brought to light at the Rotman School of Management through discovery of the combination Design, Business and Innovation). You may have heard the idea ‘today we cannot solve problems alone or by a single discipline, because these problems have become too big and/or complex’. I do believe that problems are extremely complex. I also believe this idea is redefining the Industrial era of professional categorization. This is partly from a generation that was told ‘anything is possible in the Information Age’, who are now demanding new combinations of university minor and master degrees. One example is a post-graduate school I attended, the Institute without Boundaries. A think tank for bringing together different disciplines to approach problems that are bigger than one industry can handle. Many design schools, and departments around the world are adhering this thinking, just look at Business weeks Design Schools: The Global List (http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/talenthunt/index.asp). So, where are these students getting jobs after this unique education? Is design really the strength in this new type of industry? I have multiple friends of all ages, within different ranges of creative disciplines and in different areas of the North American continent, who are searching. Searching for the answer in an opportunity for interdisciplinary, forward thinking and change creators. So, as I research this subject, I share articles for you to digest, and few comments of my own here and there. Hopefully it will be a guiding light through the mess of change.