An Archive Blog by Bob Sutton

“Great Artists Steal” Check out the Cool Steve Jobs Video Over at Metacool

Diego has posted this cool Steve Jobs video.  It fits a perspective that Andy Hargadon and I worked on years ago on knowledge brokering (notably in this HBR article) and he developed in his book How Breakthroughs Happen.  Essentially, Andy had done over a decade of research showing creativity is mostly about combining old things in new ways and/or doing new things with old things.  Of course, it isn't our idea, we moved it to some new places and recombined with ideas that we borrowed from others!