On May 22-23 (Thursday and Friday), the Institute of Design is hosting a Strategy Conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
As usual, I’m pretty excited about the speakers: notably, Bill Buxton, AG Lafley, Roger Martin, John Seely Brown, and Paul Polak! How amazing is it that we get so many great minds in [...]
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Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing [...]
Dearest Future Manager:
16Nov07Please do not allow yourselves to be brainwashed by this mass media drivel. (Not just the article, but the episode)
Look, I realize there’s a tremendous likelihood there will be a generation gap between us.
You probably watch um.. what’s it called, again? Oh right, “television”.
Maybe you don’t know there’s anything better since [...]
Creating Innovation Teams
15Nov07This Fast Company article gets straight to the heart of what’s important in creating innovation teams.
I know many people with post graduate degrees coming out of their ears who can’t find a job. Why? Because they’re scholastically overqualified but don’t have the savvy, the perception and perspectives needed in a fast paced, competitive world. They [...]
I have a theory on decision making in communities. I need to complete a lot more research and reading to substantiate my theory, but instinct tells me it’s true.
Communities, just like people, suffer from attention deficit disorder.
Because of media and pop culture, people as a collective spend way too much time and [...]
photo credit: servo.
Today, at the Institute of Design, Chris Bernard, Joe Dizney, and David McGaw held a Teaming workshop, that was illuminating and a very welcome start to the school year.
Classes here start on Monday, and everyone is looking to start the year off with good team practices.
We started the workshop with a presentation by [...]
Hahahahhahahahhahaha.
As a consumer, I respect Whole Foods’ offerings and triple bottom line mentality. I always thought very highly of their CEO, John Mackey. That is, until I read this hilarious post this morning.
Sorry man, but we all already love your company (except for the exorbitant prices on most of your products, e.g. chocolate covered Goji [...]
