A beagle – aka The Red Baron – often gets it right without even trying. Unlike the blues brooder himself – Charlie Brown – the beagle beats with an attitude — he knows how not to spend time or a dime on what you can´t change.
So, here is one for me; yesterday at a meeting in Oslo, my research group Future Learning Lab got the endorsement of the ABELIA in the Norwegian Trade Organisation for our June 2016 generally rather ambitious conference. It was a good meeting. It mattered to us that Abelia and the others at the meeting went all in for our planned conference stunt.
We never managed to get that endorsement locally. Lord knows we tried. Never managed much locally, actually. Most the time we were told by people in our home region to go talk to someone, usually someone who was thought to be an expert — which is a way of saying we were not, somehow.
You get tired and you start to stop to try to bother, or something. Local innovation is usually stopped by people hired to help innovation and who somehow are content to have been hired. Then they move on. Shuffle papers some other place.
So a friend and relative posted this cartoon on FB just a few hours ago, and it had me. It reminded me of how sometimes being smart or having great connections may not be the smartest thing. Just ridin´, may be an option, when your ideas are too early, too big or something…(just supposing the problem isn´t yourself, your lack of ability to communicate, or something….)
So, time to get the splinters out of our ass and SLIDE ON?
Down that “great bannister of life”. You have to love that sort of sentence.
I never managed to localise the source of the cartoon above, but looking up the website that it looks like it came from – sun-gazing.com – something else pops up all by its lone self. And I cant help but fall down, laughing.
Here it is — absolutely great slidin´.
Out there howling with the wolves and two men on mean guitars in the snow. Now, whatever you think about the singing below, really does not matter either. Nothing really does. That´s the sad part about wanting to innovate – who cares?
But check out the website — it´s grandly weird. And worth the wait through a silly senseless blogpost.
Here. Sun-gazing.com