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Hack:
Create the worlds biggest R&D portal for Screw-Ups

By Dr. Jagan Nathan Vaman - Idea Man at Executive Coach & Consultant
July 30, 2010 at 8:11am
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We hear only about Success stories! Create the worlds BIGGEST repository or a web-portal of 'Screw-ups'. All disciplines, all languages, all nations and all $@%*  will be there. It will be the United Nations of Screw-Ups. Whats the big deal? Simple - There is nothing wrong with learning from others’ experience—Mirror learning, as contrasted with direct experience. Its a lot cheaper and easier to learn from mistakes, setbacks, and Screw-ups of others and may be builld a new path to innovation by developing further on those Screw-ups. The whole idea is to make a screw-up and turn it in to Success! Internet can be a great enabler for collaboaring & turning such screw-ups in to success stories - fueling Innovation.

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July 30, 2010 at 8:31am
Dr. Jagan Nathan Vaman

Create a great web portal of Screw-ups
Get a few great guys to mentor and let them build it
Get a high visibility guy/ company to back up - give some money
Make it popular - make it the butt-book of all screw-ups and a place to look for innovation/ideas
Sell it to Google or Yahoo and start the next imagiventure
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Is this imagination or hallucination! - I am winning the M--Prize and suddenly I am a celebrity!!!!

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August 13, 2010 at 10:59am
Raj Kumar

Your hack reminded of Herman Wouk's "War And Rememberance"and "Winds Of War". In them he has analysed some of the great victories of World War-II which turned on a dime. Definitely not your idea if seen from the victor's viewpoint. But see it from the looser's viewpoint: a scout plane here, an attack when defence was practiced .... and the complexion of the engagement could have changed. Great learning for the budding strategeist or general. Perhaps, if in addition to creating the repository experts are invited to comment on how narrowly success was lost and defeat earned you can expect a superior collection and more completely achieve the goal of education and inspiration. Of course, free flow of opinion by visitors on the expert comments will enhance the appeal and value of the site.