Design Thinking: From Cognition to Craft
Design thinking is best approached as a habit, not as an exercise. Just as ‘critical thinking’ isn’t meant to be applied sporadically to one’s life, neither is design thinking.
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An Age of Creation
Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.
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Beautiful Work
Making your world and work beautiful has tangible benefits for performance and wellbeing. It’s not trivia to focus on aesthetics.
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Conflicted Interests
Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking
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Smart goals or better systems?
If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —
Read moreDecoupling creators from their creations
The world is transformed by creators — the artists, the innovators, the leaders — and their creations are what propel change
Read moreA Beautiful Idea
Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our
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The Ecology of Innovation: Part 1 – Ideas
There is a tendency when looking at innovation to focus on the end result of a process of creation rather
Read moreCreativity and Craft, Myth and Muscle
Creativity is a word shrouded in myth that has been held up as this elusive, seductive object that will reveal
Read moreReading Innovation and the New Economy
Economic changes are transforming business and work itself in ways that are having consequences well beyond supply chains and jobs,
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