One of my heroes -- the creator, inventor, architect, philosopher -- world-changer, Buckminster Fuller will be honored by a USPS stamp to be issued in July (thanks for the link, BoingBoing!)
This reminds me that I commented on someone's blog (eeks, don't remember - result of a Technorati search on "think week") that you don't need to be rich as Bill Gates (their premise) to take a think week. It's not a luxury, it's the best investment you can make for yourself.
Fuller took one for at least a year. And Thoreau for about two. And Semler lives a seven-day weekend consistently. Visionaries like Fuller, Ford, Edison, and others integrated similar think week concepts into their daily, weekly, monthly lives. I'd argue that it's impossible to come up with breakthrough or disruptive (rather than incremental) innovations without this practice.
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