Chris Anderson:

When I was at The Economist, there was a policy to rotate everyone every three years. The idea was that fresh eyes were more important than experience. "Foreign everywhere" was the mantra.

Each time, it changes my life and puts me back on a steep learning curve with a new subject to immerse in and a new pace of travel and speaking. I've got a new foreign land to explore.

Decius:

Noticing is easier in a foreign place because mundane things are unusual. It's the sameness of the familiar that closes minds.

From the archive:

What amazes Chipchase is not the standard stuff.

Richard Hamming:

I finally adopted what I called "Great Thoughts Time." When I went to lunch Friday noon, I would only discuss great thoughts after that.