
A brainstorming (5) mile high club.
British Airways is flying 130 Silicon Valley business leaders, venture capitalists, and start-up specialists from San Francisco to London in an "Innovation Lab in the Sky" – an 11-hour flight that's going to try and sort out ways to expand STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills around the world. The …
Brainstorming is an extrovert, wishful thing, nonsense activity which generates less and lower quality results than separate study, then discussion of results; even for extroverts, and even worse for introverts!
This sounds more like a social junket and marketing media event to me.
There is only one man brave and, dare I say it, revolutionary enough to conceive such a splendid idea cutting through old fashioned concepts like evidence based policy in a single stroke. Steve Bong! So glad that he has taken the time out of his busy schedule to help make the world a better place.
I'm sorry, but I cannot see how investment to create companies can be a good thing. All the companies I've seen were just a waste of money. They had a huge overhead with just a small fraction of the company working productively.
If those 3rd world countries want to have success they need to find out ways to work without companies, the resulting reduction in overhead will quickly propel them in productivity.