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Thinking of a career shift? Here’s how to increase your odds of success…

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Lee Brooks — 3 Comments

Every so often people ask me for career guidance. I guess I’ve done pretty well charting my own career path, so far at least, and folks want to know the ins and outs. Well, here’s a shortish post that captures…

Tagged with: adjacent possible, career growth, hiring
Posted in Careers, Everything, Soccer

Book Report: Where Good Ideas Come From

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Lee Brooks — 4 Comments

“A series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns – in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office…

Tagged with: adjacent possible, Benjamin Franklin, commonplace book, Communitech, dreams, error, flow, Great Man Theory, innovation, Isaac Asimov, James Watt, Kitchener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, NeoNurture, Sigmund Freud, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, TED, Thomas Jefferson, Waterloo, William James, William Stanley Jevons
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science

Growing your career with the adjacent possible

Posted on May 5, 2015 by Lee Brooks — 3 Comments

Just because you don’t know where you’re ultimately going doesn’t mean you can’t start poking around. I didn’t know where I was going, but it was no accident that I’ve arrived. I started my career in technology as a “Quality Assurance…

Tagged with: adjacent possible, career growth, co-op, How We Got to Now, product management, product marketing, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, University of Waterloo, Where Good Ideas Come From
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management

Book Report: How We Got to Now

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Lee Brooks — 8 Comments

“This is a history worth telling, in part, because it allows us to see a world we generally take for granted with fresh eyes. Our lives are surrounded and supported by a whole class of objects that are enchanted with…

Tagged with: Ada Lovelace, adjacent possible, Charles Babbage, Clarence Birdseye, clean, cold, Elon Musk, Frederic Tudor, Galileo, glass, How We Got to Now, innovation, Leonardo Da Vinci, light, Niels Bohr, perspective, research, science, sound, Sputnik, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, technology, Thomas Edison, time
Posted in Books, Math and Science

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