The Biopark of Leadership: Black Swans, Gray Rhinos, and the Pink Elephant in the Room: NeoDeMarcoian Thought
Existentialism Leadership, Innovation, and Strategy: Neo-DeMarcoian Banter
I’ve studied the Existentialists for years now and I continue pondering how to apply some of the lessons of these philosophers to today. So much of what they studied, wrote, and believed are a bit shocking, but as leaders we need avoid the preverbal tossing the baby with the bathwater. What can today’s leaders, innovators, …
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Enlightened by Starbucks? Good Ideas and Good Coffee…DeMarco Banter
It's a fascinating thing...something I have personally pondered from a long time... the thought that birthed Disruptive Thinking, Microclimates, and Leadership for Strategic Change. Did the coffeehouses in 17th century England lead to an acceleration in innovation and unusual levels of creativity? English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries were public social houses where people would meet for …
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Leadership and the Philosopher: A neo-DeMarconian Thought
“For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher, and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person.” —MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 8.33.32–34 Should a leader be a philosopher? According to Plato, a philosopher king is a leader who possesses both a love of knowledge, as well as intelligence, reliability, and a …
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Bringing Chaos to Order: A Philosophy for Innovation
We didn’t start the fire… The History Lesson
This has been one of those songs we have loved since day one. It did an incredible job of capturing not only the issues of the day, but also drew an awesome linage of how we got there. Its lyrics are made of rapid-fire brief allusions to over one hundred headline events between March …
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: Isaiah Berlin and The Dualism of Leadership—DeMarco Banter
Picasso, The Creative, Passion, and School—How to Remain an Artist: Neo-DeMarcoian Thought
A version of this post can also be found at The University of Cambridge's Centre of Social Innovation Blog Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. - Pablo Picasso Every morning I pore over quotes and post a few to twitter. Why? For some strange …
Nothing Changes on New Year’s Day…
It is probably just me...but ever since 1983--I seem to hear Bono's words...ever single New Year's Day...and does anything really change...on New Year's Day? "New Year's Day" is a song by rock band U2. It is on their 1983 album War and it was released as the album's lead single in January 1983. Written about the Polish Solidarity movement, "New Year's Day" is driven …
Stoic Thinking and Failure: Adjust Your Thinking–DeMarco Banter
“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” ― Seneca, Letters from a StoicFailure is an inside job--inside our head. So is success--all depending on how we define it. If we want to achieve, we have to win the war in our mind first. We can’t let the …
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