My involvement with the Casualty Actuarial Society recently started. I'm on a council tasked with changing the professions culture to be innovative. I've spent the last couple months learning about what innovation is and all the companies out there that have this illusive quality. It's really a pretty cool job; I'm helping change the whole profession to be more relevant and shed the image of the stereotypical actuary that is nerdy and is not effective because they lack some important social skills. I'm the perfect person for the job:P
There's good reason the innovation quality is illusive. There are many "experts" and I work with a consultant who I assume is pretty expensive. I've read a lot. It sounds like lots of buzz words so far and not much substance.
I changed my mind all of a sudden. Well sort of; innovation is pretty intangible. I read something that resonated and I want to write it down. I've spent much time thinking about taking things step by step and how that gets me to a place far from where I began.
I read about an idea the author coined "the adjacent possible". The author barely referenced coming up with ideas and innovation buzz words. He talked about nature. It's about how things don't just *happen*. It's rare in nature and in ideas that things "ahead of their time". There are steps that need to happen to get from one place to another. "Doors" need to be opened for other "doors" to be reachable.
There's no skipping. Taher, keep opening doors.
There's good reason the innovation quality is illusive. There are many "experts" and I work with a consultant who I assume is pretty expensive. I've read a lot. It sounds like lots of buzz words so far and not much substance.
I changed my mind all of a sudden. Well sort of; innovation is pretty intangible. I read something that resonated and I want to write it down. I've spent much time thinking about taking things step by step and how that gets me to a place far from where I began.
I read about an idea the author coined "the adjacent possible". The author barely referenced coming up with ideas and innovation buzz words. He talked about nature. It's about how things don't just *happen*. It's rare in nature and in ideas that things "ahead of their time". There are steps that need to happen to get from one place to another. "Doors" need to be opened for other "doors" to be reachable.
There's no skipping. Taher, keep opening doors.
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