Innovation: Always Be Connecting the Dots

Organizations flourish or become obsolete and die without it. Yet, what is innovation at its core?  Graphic motion designer Rafa Gale and journalist David Brier joined forces to show us what innovation is about in this video. 


In a Stanford famous commencement speech, Steve Job stated:
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

Sir Richard Branson, from the Virgin Group has a mantra: A-B-C-D. (Always Be Connecting the Dots), spun after the popular A-B-C salesman rule (Always Be Closing) from the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. When you look at the bigger picture, what do you think? Do you think that things happen by chance or that in the end looking back you will see that everything happened for a purpose? This is the core idea behind connecting the dots and innovation.
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Innovation: Always Be Connecting the Dots 

Rafa Galeano is a Spanish motion graphic designer and a teacher of After Effects in Estación Diseño school (Granada).

David Brier is a brand identity expert, veteran designer, author, speaker and Fast Company expert blogger.