His latest book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything discusses the elements for real success: natural talents and personal passion.

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"The success of green school is gonna be being able to provide a curriculum that lets kids to choose Oxford, a life of activism, whatever they wanna do and doesn't limit them."
 

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British chef Jamie Oliver Introduces the OpenIDEO Challenge: How can we raise kids' awareness of the benefits of fresh food so they can make better choices?

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"When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in."

In this short interview Roger Martin from the Rotman School of Management skims through different concepts present in the design process like intuition and rapid prototyping. The latest is a powerful means to generate small series of proofs of the progress of processes throughout the development of projects. It also provides help to figure out some missing pieces of the innovation puzzle. 

The implementation of rapid prototyping in the development of products, services or user experiences has a huge impact on the achievement of great and innovative results. Innovation is an essential element that feeds and nurtures the originality levels of any organisation.

Martin also discusses the importance of failure in the design process. There is always great value in the discovery of what does or has not worked along the process, therefore the need of increasing the tolerance to failure in order to learn from it and succeed. Only failing you are able to develop or improve the necessary skills to learn and succeed.

Southwark Circle is an extraordinary project run by Participle that enables its members to participate in programs to reinforce the community by matching people offering services with those who need them. The project is a great example of the redesign of public services and the application of design thinking in the social sector. It has been recently launched and promises to bring very valuable insights on the shift from 'project' into a financially sustainable and scalable model.

One of the smartest things and a personal favourite about this program is the way they communicate with their stakeholders and target audience. The first thing I realised after reading the project brochure is that there is no mention whatsoever to the age of the members, not even in the website. This is not a random decision but an expression of how they address the real problem: our perception of ageing and its effects on our behaviour towards the elderly people. This project focuses not only in the solution of the sympthoms (the real need of assistance and help) but in educate the younger generations about how to approach the ageing process with more care and respect.

Congratulations to all the team behind this amazing project!