About Inventing Elephants
This blog exists to help people who are seeking innovative solutions to complex and messy problems by both sharing stories that foster a systemic mindset and by providing tools for developing and implementing possible answers.
Or I could put it another way.
I hope this blog inspires an attitude of looking towards the big picture and asking questions. How does this fit together with other things? What does that mean? How can I use that information to make something better? And then I hope it provide tools to act on these questions.
However I say it, I cannot meet this goal alone.
The full picture requires more perspectives, more experiences, and more angles of approach than one person can provide. Please contact me with your stories of failures and successes, tools you have used, and whatever may have caught your eye related to the idea of thinking towards the whole for a better future. I welcome guest posts or we can talk together through whatever media you are most comfortable with and find a way to pass your experiences on.
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Read about the beginning, naming, and current focus of Inventing Elephants.
About Beth Robinson
I can trace a spiraling path through my life that led me to this blog.
As a teen I was struck by the idea in a fantasy book that there is no one true way.
In college I studied an engineering discipline that focuses on understanding the interaction of properties, process, and structure, to meet an overall goal.
Working as a product development chemist for an adhesive manufacturer opened my eyes to how each part of a business has to interact in order to meet any sort of goal effectively and led me to study for my MBA.
At the same time I learned to believe I was creative as I transformed a hobby of embroidering others' patterns into a passion for creating my own mixed media art.
I have come to realize that my fascination for coming at the world from more than one direction is not necessarily typical. I have only begun deliberately studying thinking methods and strategies so I can make a more significant difference.
For more information about my career please visit my LinkedIn profile. For a more general overview and my personal blog please visit my home page at http://bethrobinson.me.
