Author: Bob
Yesterday I was fortunate to give the keynote speech for the annual meeting of the Florida Attractions Association. It was a tremendous audience and one that felt like home for me since I pretty much grew up in the attractions business. My talk was called “Zennovation: The Power of The Net Present...
03/12/2011, by Bob Allen: We have once again witnessed the StoryJam magic. Even with translation errors (some quite comical), once our client engaged in the making of story, Chinese dissolved, English dissolved and there was only a room full of people creating a new reality together. This new idea-the Eco...
Experience is another word for LIFE. We move through our lives and actually measure them as a collection of experiences we label as pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. Thoughts are experiences too—some of our best ones in fact never “actually” happen but they do “really” happen in our thinking. Today, in...
Martin Luther King Jr. is iconic for so many reasons. They are, to me, layered like an onion. At the top is the public figure, the courageous ambassador of nonviolence and American ahimsa-a word that comes from Sanskrit that means “non-harming”. Without his courage and leadership, the civil rights movement,...
Its funny. People are growling for "innovation" and yet when you offer true innovation all of a sudden there is this rush of air as a frenzied stampede leaves the room to try to quickly ground the innovation in the apparent safety of something derivative with the cry "You have...
The International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough Tennessee is a singularity. This little town, the oldest in the state, is soaked in history from the revolutionary war forward but besides its charm, it is the nexus for toilers in the craft of the tale. We’re talking here about 3 days of...
We always remark that the greatest thing about our work at IDEAS is when we can be a comprehensive solution provider for our clients. That means we get to work in all of our practice areas- Innovation, Learning and our Studio. I’m in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico this week working with...
I was having one of those disjointed and asynchronous “conversations” with my friend Jamie Conglose on Facebook today about integrity- one of the most greatly abused words in the national lexicon of business. Jamie is a world-class teacher of leadership and she opined that “Possessing integrity and emotional intelligence allows...
In the continuing saga of The Radical Platypus (www.radicalplatypus.com), Jim Brazell and I along with our pal Jud French from the Digital Media Alliance of Florida gave a talk at the leadership Summit for the Florida Alliance for Arts Education last Friday in Lakeland. These are educators who have embraced...
IDEAS was hatched in the most amazing creative incubator imaginable- Walt Disney World. We love our Disney heritage and treasure our Disney clients and friends. My own connection there goes even deeper. In 1955, a struggling student going to Cal Poly in Long Beach California on the GI bill heard...
Last night there was a quiet celebration. The Simulation Interoperability and Standards Organization and the Society for Computer Simulation International teamed up to host “CELEBRATE Central Florida Modeling and Simulation”. Now, that’s a mouthful of organizations and pretty geeky looking till you look deeper. 11 of the honorees represented work...
It's about 36 degrees and raining outside and the sky looks like an impenetrable roof. That would be Albany, the Capital of New York, at the need of February. I’ve come on our third Radical Platypus mission. You may remember that my pal Jim Brazell, a futurist, scientist and general...
