Learning is an ongoing process and the importance of being able to think creatively is core to innovation for innovation has many faces and can come from different places! INSEAD professors in their mindblowing book ‘From Global To Metanational‘ allude to a story wherein a multinational Music Company was looking for talent (fishing for knowledge in the global talent pool) and discovered it in a fringe town in Latin America wherein a local producer was cohesively stringing together tunes and beats that struck a chord! The metaphor here is relevant, because it is often through the fringes of the world that we find the best talent!
However, in order to effectively learn, one must also borrow from the past, a core principal of strategic innovations . Personally, I love reflecting back on literature that I have composed that articulate, delineate and appropriate themes for it is themes and narratives that drive economic, social and business systems!
For ease of reference, I include them below as embedded PDF links. My voracious appetite for applying knowledge through qualitative (and supporting quantitative analysis) stems from a very young age and the essays I include below are from the years 2003-2004.
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness basically depicts how the human psyche can suffer in the wrong environment and capitulate to madness through autocracy (the one liner) – the full essay below:
Speculative Fiction – An umbrella term for there are multiple ways to interpret movies, but I did for The Lord Of The Rings below with a cross literary study of The Handmaids Tale
As with any movie or piece of literature – to truly appreciate them one has to also watch compilations. One of my favourites is included below which also portrays powerful themes if you have the eye for it?
Another movie that is one of my favourites of which is an appropriation of the Handmaids Tale is V for Vendetta!…
