In the world of Innovation Paul Akers is a Star in his own right. He is an entrepreneur, author, teacher. And a lean-maniac (his own words).
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2020 brand masterclasses by Marty Neumeier
Marty Neumeier, who was a guest on The 2pt5 recently, has published new dates for his brand masterclasses in the US and Europe. Check out the classes here.
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Gutenberg – a small example of being at the beginning of the innovation curve
Addressing “The 2pt5” percent the innovators requires to stay ahead of the innovation curve. I think. That’s why I choose a new way WordPress offers to publish this blog. “Gutenberg” is the new block editor that makes working much easier. But as a page builder it is very much located in the beginning of the innovation diffusion curve.
With all the consequences.
Pro:
- the new features help a distinct group to work eg from everywhere and use mobile solutions (I am writing and will publish this text via my smartphone)
- using the new supports the development and spreading it beyond the first to use it
Con:
- available features will necessarily be restricted
- established products will almost always have more functionality
There are good reasons not to use the new. “Nobody will be fired for selecting McKinsey/IBM as consultants or technology” can still be true. But picking up the new and unknown has definitely potential to propel change.
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Merry Christmas!
Watch this short movie and find out more about my day job and how it all started 🙂
Merry Christmas!
Klaus
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Cole Raven, Podchaser Co-founder about discovering and sharing new podcasts, tools for remote teams, the value of Reddit for business and about serendipity in innovation
Cole Raven is the Co-founder of Podchaser. The platform helps to discover and share new podcasts. It is also a great tool for podcast creators to connect. The company is run remotely by a group of people that partly meet on Reddit.
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Baden-Württemberg
The state The 2pt5 podcast is hosted is TheLÄND “Baden-Württemberg” in the Southwest of Germany. The word is hard to pronounce, even in German. Have a look a the video for an idea of how to say it and get an idea of what we are up to:
The place is located between France, the Rhine river and Bavaria. As well as North of the Swiss Alps with the beautiful Lake Constance/Bodensee in the South.
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Productivity Coach Carl Pullein about the motivation to innovate and about getting things done as an innovator
Carl Pullein is a renowned productivity and time management coach. With his hundreds of Youtube videos, podcasts episodes, blog, weekly newsletter, courses and books he helps people around the world to get their things done.
Carl Pullein loves to create himself and sees time management as a tool to achieve the things that are important in life. With his work, including his COD system, he is reducing the complexity of systems such as GTD Getting Things Done because he has “an allergy to complexity”.
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Designer/ideas man/brand expert/teacher Marty Neumeier – about his no BS approach to ideas, the purpose and limits of business books for innovation, achieving minimalism in creating and learning from The Grateful Dead
In this episode my guest is Marty Neumeier a Designer/ideas man/brand expert and teacher. We are talking about
- that you don’t have to be a genius to be an innovator
- about the importance of dreaming as an innovator as well as making and continous learning
- about the importance of a vision for making to get to results
- about focusing and leaving out the bs in business books
- and about learning from The Grateful Dead.
Marty Neumeier is an ideas man and a teacher in the best sense of the word.
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What is a podcast?
People often ask “what is a podcast?” And are very happy, when they discover this great way to listen to great stuff. A podcast is an easy way to listen to favorite shows on your own schedule. While commuting, exercising or relaxing.
Most start with a show they listen to on the radio and discover new shows over time. E.g. NPR has a great range of their shows available as a podcast.
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Music Producer Immex – about finding new beats, honoring tradition, Unbox Therapy and Mark Knopfler
The very first episode, enjoy!
This time I am going to talk to musician and music producer Hristijan Ivanovski from Macedonia also known as Immex about his music and the process to create his work.
We are talking about his love for Mark Knopflers music, the influcence of Jedi Mind Tricks and music producer Gramatik on his development as a musician. Immex is a self taught guitar player, that started with passion for music and with the help of his community as he has a lot of friends in bands, a network he draws upon often.
He likes hip-hop and rock’n’roll and is situated in between genres. He actually prefers this sometimes uncomfortable place between two chairs and accepts it as a source of inspiration.
As an Innovator Immex is switching between classical Guitar and a Laptop as his favorite instruments to create music. Today he is multi instrumental, playing also drums, base guitar, keyboards and even sings. His beats are used on major Youtube channels such as Unbox Therapy with more than 15 mill. fans. He is a master of the computer as a complex instrument but he loves playing the guitar and keeps one around all the time.
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