Hey Yann, I was watching you on Radio-Canada’s Tout le Monde en Parle last Sunday and I heard you say something so grotesque, so stupid and so ignorant that I felt I had to respond. You said something like: “As far as I’m concerned, all languages are the same.” So I’m going to do exactly what you are doing to Stephen Harper and send you a couple of books to set you straight. Feel free to pass them along to Steve when you’re done. Don’t get me wrong, I’m an anglophile.

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Steve Jobs is the inspiration behind the look and feel of many of Apple’s products, including their hippy hang out, the Apple Store. Well the New York Times has reported that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be helping the aging (and failing) Disney Stores get their retail business back into shape. It appears that they will be making their retail stores more interactive where customers who walk by a certain display will set off some sort of audio and visual reaction.

The iPhone is a pretty good way to kill short bursts of idle time — for example, I picked up an addiction to Apple’s Poker game after I started playing a couple times a day while I waited for buses. Now there’s an app called Give Work that allows you to fill that time by helping refugees in Kenya, developed by startups CrowdFlower and Samasource . The two companies have been working together for several months already.

What does the future hold for your organization?  Will it be more of the same?  Pretty much business as usual with a twist of incremental change?  Or will radical new innovations dramatically change both what your organization does…and even what is normal and customary? Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean by Roberto Verganti is on every recommended list of innovation titles.  Couldn’t tell you which list persuaded me to pull it out of the stack and start reading it.  What I can tell you is that this is a very interesting read.