Serendipity and Learning

Smaller companies innovate better? Happened to read this piece on Koenigsegg somehow while reading something and searched for more of their innovations and  here is what I found There is more on their website:  Automobile innovations . And heres their ex-design head talking about annoying design trends in automobile design.

Recently I was part of a team that conducted two events. In one of the events, the "owners" of the event took charge of the stage. They wrote everything that described every guest, every word was thought about and rehearsed and delivered and timed. The event started on time and ended exactly on time even though there were some (as usual) mid point glitches (nobody knew them - but the owners had planned enough Plan B's in the system). The result was a fabulous stage management with the event appearing professional. For the second event, we had invited someone else to compere. The compere, especially professional comperes are specialists. They are highly skilled, they know how to connect with audiences, how to engage and bring out the best in an audience. They have a great voice, good selection of phrases, but if you have noticed, some of them don't prepare enough because of the confidence of their skill. Which is why you notice that in company offsites, they often mis-...