Vol. 7, Issue 3  |  September 2015

 

Learn from other industries

By Erwin Meier-Honegger

Autumn is inspiration and training time. The summer months can often recharge your personal batteries, and this energy puts you on the right track to explore new ideas. The range of conferences, seminars, congresses and trade fairs is particularly diverse in September; the proverbial “spoiled for choice”. My choice usually falls on events outside the horticultural environment. Not because the “horticultural” events were not exciting; but somehow these “ideas birthplaces” seems incestuous to me. And I wonder if exchanges among too closely related professionals is not encouraging hereditary diseases.

What do I mean by that? Take yourself a quarter of an hour to listen to the brilliant lecture “When ideas have sex” by Matt Ridley.

 

 

 

Did you see us share this video on the IGCC Switzerland Facebook Page?  It is worth watching.  Break routine: ‘personal butler’ at a Canadian garden centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex6y7uTTBx0

(Thank you Thermoflor B.V. for your Blog-Post!)

 

Best regards from Switzerland. 

Erwin Meier-Honegger
ERNST MEIER AG

 

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 Click below for all of the stories from this issue:

Message from your President	Update from the IGCA Office	Australia Down Under
Administrators will visit Niagara Falls this December!	Autumn Greetings from Czech	Update from Denmark
Pesticide Sales: The end is Near in France	Learning from other Industries	News from Germany
Update from Ireland	Report from Japan	News from Spain
Garden Centre Outlet in Switzerland	IGCA Board Member Perspective	Update from AmericanHort
	Update from South Africa