Craig O'Kane MBE

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Craig O'Kane MBE

Craig O'Kane MBE

@Craigokane

QLD Treasury: Former fund manager, diplomat, trade and capital advisor, government official, ops & strategy. Passions: innovation, creativity, collaboration

Brisbane, Queensland Katılım Haziran 2009
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MrBeast@MrBeast·
I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours
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@zanrowe Brilliant inspiring, what an honour that must have been. He was in awe of the Smiths but Noel is also a genius. Well done @zanrowe 👏
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Chelsea FC Women@ChelseaFCW·
Captains. The battle of the Blues. 🔜 #FIFAWWC
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Billy Oppenheimer@bpoppenheimer

In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, & Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was A corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. "Two days after the competition," he said, "I wasn't even asked—I was told that I was now a footwear designer for Nike." As he got to work on his first official shoe design, he thought about a building he had studied in architecture school: The Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Centre Pompidou is an inside-out building, meaning that the structural, mechanical, and circulation systems are all exposed. “That building,” Tinker said, “was describing what it was to the people of Paris. And I thought, ‘Well why not do that with a shoe? Let’s cut a hole in the side and show what’s in the shoe.’” So Tinker designed an inside-out shoe: The Air Max 1. The Air Max 1 was a massive success, and it steered Nike's design direction from then on. "To this day," Tinker says, "Phil Knight says I saved Nike." Takeaway 1: Had he not studied that building in Paris, Tinker says, he couldn’t have created the Air Max. Creativity, he says, is a function of the “library in your head." “When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.” Takeaway 2: Tinker Hatfield went to architecture school and then he was a corporate architect for 4.5 years. Then, literally overnight, he became one of the best shoe designers in the world. This makes me think of a counter-intuitive discovery made by psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904. Before Spearman, the natural assumption was that the more you specialize in one thing, the worse you’ll be at other things. Instead, Spearman discovered "the positive manifold" phenomenon. He found that different abilities tend to be positively correlated. That the expertise gained through specialization is transferrable. That the cognitive and creative abilities cultivated as an architect could positively correlate with being a shoe designer. - - - "Creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."  — Robert Greene Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

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Vicki Treadell
Vicki Treadell@VickiTreadell·
Congrats @frugalpac. We'll support your expansion #downunder 🇦🇺. A market for your 94% #recycled paperboard bottles, 5 x lighter than glass & using 6 x less carbon & energy to produce & dispose, awaits. Delighted #Sydney's Mother of Pearl Vodka an early adopter. 🇦🇺🇬🇧 #AUKFTA
Frugalpac@frugalpac

Really proud to see our Frugal Bottles with @SilentPoolGin & @greenallsgin chosen by @biztradegovuk to send to NZ and Australia to promote the Free Trade Agreements. Looking forward to export more bottles & Frugal Bottle Assembly Machines around the world. frugalpac.com/uk-government-…

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Leakster@Leakster5·
🎉 Exciting Announcement! Leakster has been awarded the Australian Federal Government's Accelerating Commercialisation Grant! 🌍 We're ready to demonstrate our advanced leak detection system for water utilities. Stay tuned for updates! #WaterInnovation #WaterTech @DonnaPatane5
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phil@philcln·
As part of the road to the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Melbourne later this year I have the priviledge to be discussing "the rise of climate tech" with some real champions @olympiayarger @liubinskas and @MollyFullee 18 May 2pm AEST buff.ly/42s3QG2
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No matter how long I live in Australia I will never get used to the response “in a cup?” when ordering a coffee #CupOrMug ☕️
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