Innovate with what you have

Innovation is simply doing things differently and doing different things

My simple definition of innovation.

It can be as easy as working with what you have available to do things differently. Today let’s look at some simple opportunities for you to do that, highlighted by two thoughts:

• the amount of daylight we have
• the recent shift in mindset around remote working

Our routines are still governed by industrial era thinking

Two days ago, Saturday June 20th, was the longest day of the year.

Where I live now in London, that means over 16.5 hours from sunrise to sunset, with true darkness of only about 6 hours. Compare this to the shortest day of the year when there are less than 8 hours of daylight.

In contrast, the Cayman Islands, where I have lived most of my adult life, is much closer to the equator so has just over 13 hours of daylight in midsummer and just under 11 in midwinter, it really varies very little.

So, the sun streams through my east-facing window in London before 5am in midsummer, as opposed to winter light after 8am in midwinter.

If we work with nature would be not look to do things a little differently with our work and life routines with the seasons?

Yes, if you live in Cayman where the variation in daylight is only from 11 to 13 hours across the year, perhaps not, but here we are in 2020 and…