The Open Business

Its dusk in London and as most people prepare to finish from work, Beijing is about to open for business. Whether its James Kim of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology helping the North Korean youth, or companies looking for ways through  social gaming in making employees healthier and more productive, in between all these are people. There is a link between learning, motivation, creativity, and performance, and although different views exist as to whether how we feel can impact our behaviour, Ron Johnson the retail radical says people just want to belong to something deeper which explains his arithmetic of success as - mindshare. Yet companies are fazed about how to create the right environment to foster innovation. When it comes to innovation ecosystems, business leaders ask employees what they desire and support high performers, but products still fail, and some processes result in decline and there is still little understanding of measures that impact outcome of outsourced research and development activities. Is this because we are unable to understand the little things or we have become too smart and fall into a circle of unproductive reasoning. A food for thought is Stanley Bing’s article on business school students – He mentions that they now posses the natural qualities for corporate leadership but are sometimes unequipped with natural genius. Will they be able to drive the open future that institutions aspire to? Some may doubt, but think facebook, twitter, linkedin and how sharing becomes the norm. Is this  a  reason to hope? Because whatever our divergent opinions may be and whether we admit to it or not, we are becoming open to innovation .