Reflections from being at the Business Innovation Factory Conference – in a word WOW
For the last 3 days of last week it was my absolute pleasure and honour to be part of the Business Innovation Factory Conference (www.businessinnovationfactory.com/) in Providence, Rhode Island. BIF8 as it was called was fantastic collection of storytellers and innovator participants.
I have published some of my reflections over at our long form blog on the story tellers including some links to notes and videos and made the follwoing comment:
“Besides the absolute achievement of the presenters (sorry Saul – Storytellers) the other thing that was so powerful was the vulnerability and openness. We are used to politicians, leaders, and conference presenters telling us how successful they are but rarely see the struggles and failures and crises of confidence that come with the journey.Not at BIFIt was hard not to feel continually inadequate in this company but a someone else said late in the process, everybody was feeling the same way. The challenge was to take that feeling and go and do some stuff that makes a difference”I recommend going over there and having a read if you are interested in people, trying to innovate to change big social systems and solve social problems rather than inventing the next razor with 7 blades instead of 6: