The Cross-Pollinator
The Cross-Pollinator draws associations and connections between seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts to break new ground. Armed with a wide set of interests, an avid curiosity, and an aptitude for learning and teaching, the Cross-Pollinator brings in big ideas from the outside world to enliven their organization. People in this role can often be identified by their open mindedness, diligent note-taking, tendency to think in metaphors, and ability to reap inspiration from constraints.
I suspect the folks involve are from all over the pallette of Faces but please see the Medical Banking Project Cooperative Open-source Medical Banking Architecture & Technology initiative http://www.mbproject.org/combat-homepage.php
Ed Dodds
Convergence Strategist
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Two early imprints:
1. Fire-breathing dragons … steel mills and factories surrounding my working-class Pittsburgh home. Smoke. Fear. Walls. A narrowing at every turn.
2. America through the window of a Trailways bus. Vast. Changing. Open.
How could any one person in America not know or want to know of every other person, place, circumstance, reality, culture? How did such a big country/premise fragment into small, ever-shrinking worlds and viewpoints? Class. Race. Education. Gender. Psychographics. Image tribes. Zip codes.
My goal. Teach a different kind of history and geography. Experiential. Irresistable. Flavorful. Where the little things that matter connect us to wider and wider worlds, and just about everything.
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This is not the story. The story comes after the jump (2 hops and a handclap). I submit the following link in the frame of note-taking and metaphor-making.
http://www.lift06.org/blog/index.php?id=77
I enjoy finding needed connections between people, or finding out what they need to know and getting people together. I’ve found that it takes knowledge of change management to help some people see importance of connections especially when they’re used to working in silos.