The future of work is not about dull routine, it’s about curiosity, exploration, flexibility and imagination. Gamestorming is the future of work, it involves people, paper, and passion. It’s a mashup of game principles, game mechanics, and work. It’s about weaving energy and fast-feedback into your work, meetings with co-workers, and design and development activities. [...]

Starting about 60 years ago, a study of the world’s patent literature (which is where we document breakthrough innovation and creativity, right?), which continues to this day, has determined that there a limited number of “inventive principles” or ways that we solve difficult problems. This analysis of 8 million patents has identified only 40 inventive [...]

A recent 2010 study by IBM of 1541 Global CEO’s identified that complexity is their primary challenge; and, a surprising number of them told us that they feel ill-equipped to succeed in this drastically different world. If CEO’s are feeling the pressures of complexity at their level, imagine what the Directors, Program/Project Managers, individual contributors are feeling down in the trenches? With outsourcing, off-shoring, and right-sizing as cost-cutting strategies, teams are distributed across continents, time zones, cultures, languages, operating paradigms, processes/procedures, and leadership norms.