{"id":44,"date":"2006-01-13T02:03:39","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/?p=44"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:41:42","slug":"ive-had-it-with-mindless-hyperbolic-design-and-innovation-punditry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/01\/13\/ive-had-it-with-mindless-hyperbolic-design-and-innovation-punditry\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Had it With Mindless Hyperbolic Design and Innovation Punditry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve had it. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had it with unsubstantiated hyperbole. I’ve had it with hackneyed metaphors. I’ve had it with shallow sound bites. I crave meaty insights, not the intellectual twinkies served up in lieu of. <\/p>\n

This means no more Bruce Nussbaum. No more Tom Peters. No more anything related to IDEO. And certainly no more Apple examples. <\/p>\n

For instance, here’s a fresh bite from Bruce: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Innovation, creativity, design \u00e2\u20ac\u201d whatever you want to call it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is the new Six Sigma.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

Claiming something is the new something else is about as insightful as claiming something is dead<\/a>. What exactly does this really mean? Does this mean that innovation is all about consistent manufacturing quality? Does this mean that creativity is the new management fad? Does it mean that design is now table-stakes? Does this mean that innovation, creativity, design are no long enough to maintain a competitive advantage? <\/p>\n

Why not just say what you mean? Perhaps because you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean anything. Perhaps because you don’t know what you mean. Or perhaps because what you mean is neither interesting nor insightful nor even true. As a result you hide behind the obfuscation of a clumsy yet common metaphor–sort of like hiding the taste of rotting meat with even hotter curry.<\/p>\n

Check out some of the folks on my blogroll, folks like Niti Bahn, Presentation Zen, Black Sheep and Bubblegeneration, folks who shun the twinkies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had it. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had it with unsubstantiated hyperbole. I’ve had it with hackneyed metaphors. I’ve had it with shallow sound bites. I crave meaty insights, not the intellectual twinkies served up in lieu of. This means no more Bruce Nussbaum. No more Tom Peters. No more anything related to IDEO. And certainly no more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}