I’m surprised I waited so long to read this book by Randy Komisar, now almost a decade old, titled The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur.
The book is a light read, I finished it between two short airplane flights to/fro Philly. Lots of this stuff is intuitive if [...]
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Late last week, the University of Michigan had their BOP conference, limited to a core and exclusive group of BOP notables (Patrick Whitney, Dean of the IIT Institute of Design, and BettrAt’s “Thinker-In-Residence,” was in attendance).
I had a chance to catch up with a friend tonight I hadn’t talked to in several years and we [...]
Recently, I stopped by the new Whole Foods in Lincoln Park here in Chicago. Immediately after stepping into the massive space, I was impressed by its ability to stay and feel fresh, and more like a marketplace that you might see in another country. Because it was so big, it contributed to a feel of [...]
This is embarrassing, but I have to admit a remarkably cheesy thing about myself.
When you’re working on a somewhat crazy, new to the world idea, and your primary intention is to “make meaning” and to improve people’s lives, people doubt you a lot. “Why would I use that? That doesn’t make sense to [...]
I just switched to Disqus commenting (I’m a huge fan of Disqus. Not that I get a ton of comments on here, but I haven’t been posting a ton in the past several months, which I fully intend on changing. For reals. In part I was reinvigorated to communicate the dire situation that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Please 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 [...]
This 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 [...]
