fringe thoughts...

Most great ideas, inventions, scientific breakthroughs, and innovations come from the fringes, not the mainstream. Einstein, Mozart, DaVinci were not considered normal or mainstream. They all questioned convention, the status quo, and asked why a hundred times.

Seek feedback from the fringes. Great insights come from the fringe, not the center. The center is too stable, too surrounded by the pedestrian, and too expected. The fringe is ecotonic, ragged, open to the environment around it, and easily adaptable.

Creating this environment means we become hotbeds of innovative activity we must become context innovators rather than content inventors. It takes brave and confident leaders to create an environment where power structures are intentionally inverted. It takes courgeous and boldness to design space for the brilliance of the fringe-minority and allow freedom of expressesion through a newly delegated and vested authority.

Everything is inverted in God's upside-down kingdom!

What are you seeing, hearing and feeling from the fringes? Ideas, insights? Jot them down. Mental ink quickly fades. Encourage an ethos of openness, creativity, and inclusiveness...via e-mail from Fred Peatross.