Universe of Blogs and the Internet

An organization, sad to say, often resembles a high school in the respect that it has a closed and definite culture. The culture is tacit and even carries a certain mythology. Certain truths are considered to be unassailable. Such truths might be that

• Our customers love us.
• Our leader is brilliant.
• It’s not my job to think.

While we live within that culture, it’s like being in high school. The universe is so small that, we slowly become what we look at. We take on that mythology, positive or negative, in small ways without knowing it.

Universe of Blogs and the Internet

Living in the universe of blogs and the Internet in some ways counters that sort of small culture thinking. It’s hard to stick with a skewed mythology, when you can click to a new world view immediately. This morning I did just that and I found myself reading a blog called RadicalHop.com by Peter Kua and an article called How to be Innovative. [I got there by a visit to the Personal Development Carnival at a blog I know called Creating a Better Life.]

I bring this up, because I don’t recall ever hearing what follows inside a brick and mortar building — except when I said it or it came from a paid consultant. It’s not organizational thinking to promote the individual quite so blatantly.

Here’s a quote from Peter Kua.

Aren’t innovators born? Doesn’t creativity only belong to the realm of geniuses, never within reach of the masses? Look at the number of cool products you own today – iPods, plasma TVs, ever shrinking PDAs and personal computers that double in speed every 18 months. Innovation is everywhere – from Google to nanotubes to hybrid vehicles. Even McDonald’s uses heaps of creative marketing, compelling parents to splurge money on their kids. Are these the products of masterminds at work? I don’t think so. Can you, as a normal and intelligent human being, be innovative? I sure think so!

I like being in the universe of blogs and the Internet. The universe is large enough to make room for more than one culture’s worth of ideas. It’s like leaving high school to find out that there is a whole world of people out there who have a whole world of thoughts and ideas to talk about.

Ideas and thoughts become more important than figuring out who the cool kids are.

Liz Strauss

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