Creativity Central [Marty Baker]

2 days.  36 innovators and thought leaders. October used to be owned by baseball and the annual plummet of Wall Street. But for the past five years, October has become the gathering of the best minds in innovation. Saul Kaplan, BIF co-founder and chief catalyst, opened the morning session with a great story about the genesis of the BIF format

He met with Richard Saul Wurman, the guru of information design, and he showed him his matrix of ideas for bringing innovators together. Wurman replied, "Saul, you've got a lot to learn about connecting emotionally with the community.  Why not think of it as a big dinner party and invite interesting and provocative people and let the ideas flow.  Toss that matrix away."

The core of BIF is innovators telling stories.  These stories inform, inspire, and ultimately become catalysts for other people's own creative and innovation journey.  Over the next few days, I will be blogging and sharing these compelling stories sans matrix.

Stay tuned...