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PIONEERlinking creativityon meaningful innovation,with smart strategy.
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AUTHORofSLINGSHOT:Re-Imagine Your Business,Re-Imagine Your Life
Because business and cultural leaders view creativity as the most important leadership trait for future success.
Re-imagining boundaries is the process that empowers organizations and individuals alike to continuously rethink and reinvent what they do.
It is the link between systematic creativity and high-impact strategic thinking, and the critical basis of staying relevant.
What if you could reignite your childhood creativity in a systematic way, to overstep self-imposed limitations and to discover what you are really capable of achieving?
Continuous innovation is both necessary and exhilarating, and we all possess the inner capacity for it. Our capacity has simply been buried and lays dormant within us. As children, our imagination knew no boundaries. We would grab a slingshot and be instantly transformed into a warrior, a spy, a huntress, or protector of treasure. But as we grew older, our intellectual comfort zone shifted from that of continuous exploration and inquisitiveness to that of conformity with accepted norms of perception. All is not lost, however. We just need the right framework to re-engage our youthful creativity and re-imagine boundaries: THE SLINGSHOT FRAMEWORK.
Find out why you need to infatuate your target audience and to provide them continuous lifestyle enrichment; how to become market-driving and to shape your offering for broadest relevance; and how to channel your reclaimed creativity into smart strategy. Launch yourself to new business and personal heights and have fun doing it.
"I am really drawn to Slingshot"
Sir Ken Robinson,
Acclaimed thought leader on creativity, education and innovation
"An uplifting and universal blueprint for inventive thinking"
Chip Conley, Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for Airbnb, and bestselling author
"I really appreciate all the amazing work you are doing with Slingshot."
Kris Carr, Bestselling author and wellness activist
“Until I read SLINGSHOT I hadnʼt really come across the idea of infatuation anywhere so I am very heartened by it.”
Kevin Roberts, Former Chairman and CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi
“This is a rare book. Playful yet informed, creative and proven.”
Rob Bell, Spiritual pioneer and bestselling author
“This book helps us unleash the vast potential of regained creativity and apply it in business, art, and other pursuits of our adult life.”
Erno Rubik, Inventor of the Rubik’s Cube (the world’s bestselling toy)
Energizing children illustrations throughout the text, accompanying original music and bits of advice from some of the world’s most well-known creative leaders round out your immersive SLINGSHOT initiation.
Watch a sample performance or listen to the entire collection of Slingshot Music created and performed by the European musical group Operentzia.
I lead provocative explorations to shape the future of your company. No matter how successful your business is today, you still operate within self-imposed boundaries. These boundaries bring the risk of marginalization. But overstepping them leads you to broadened consumer relevance and sustained growth.
You will learn how to apply the Slingshot Framework to:
This year’s Nobel Prizes are being currently awarded, and you rightfully may consider them to be a serious affair. However, there is a much more humorous, purposely irreverent, and arguably no less important version of these awards: The Ig Nobel Prizes.
The 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at a wild and wacky ceremony on September 12, 2024, at MIT university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 34th annual awards, given out by the editors of the humorous scientific publication ‘Annals of Improbable Research’ to achievements that “first make people laugh and then make them think”.
This year’s ceremony had the theme of Murphy’s Law, and featured Murphy’s Law song contest opera, ‘24/7’ lectures in which experts first explained their subject in 24 seconds, then in seven words, silly costumes and paper-plane throwing.
The much heralded, 2024 winners included:
• Demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout.
• Studying if the direction people’s hair swirls in the southern hemisphere matches that of people in the northern hemisphere.
• Finding evidence that some real plants imitate the shapes of neighboring artificial plastic plants.
You can watch the entire, outlandish ceremony here: https://improbable.com/ig/archive/2024-ceremony/
Fun fact: Sir Andre Geim has the distinct honor of bagging both the Nobel Prize (in 2010 in physics for his work on graphene research) and the Ig Nobel Prize (in 2000 for the magnetic levitation of frogs). Such direct connection between highly valuable and highly ridiculous should not be the least surprising. As Albert Einstein famously said: “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
#humor #Nobelprize #leadership @creativity @futurism
Gabor George Burt is the global authority on re-imagining boundaries and author of the book Slingshot.
A mastermind of innovation, creativity and strategy, Gabor enables individuals and organizations to overstep perceived limitations and to carve out successful growth strategies. His Slingshot Framework is at the forefront of global innovation.
Gabor holds a BA in psychology and economics from Amherst College as well as an MBA from INSEAD, France.