Ben Franklin met with a group of like-minded artisans from other industries every week for 30 years. Mark Parker did it famously at Nike, where he would have dinners with tattoo artists and graffiti artists. The idea is to cultivate weak links in an organization so that they can share information together.
Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn are the authors of, Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, which is available on October 25th.
Jeremy is the Director of Executive Education at Stanford d.school and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford's School of Engineering. He is the co-host of the d.school’s widely popular program “Stanford’s Masters of Creativity.”
Perry is a co-founding member of Stanford's d.school faculty. He is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Executive Education at Stanford d.school. He has served as COO of Patagonia and as CEO of Timbuk2.
Learn more at ideaflow.design.
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