Will, Intentions and Change
Change is often less about what we intend to change and our willingness to take action. If innovation requires us
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Emotional Honesty in Designing Change
Innovation is emotional work and it’s time to connect our feelings and thoughts to fuel our change efforts and actions.
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Plastic Language and Its Effects
Plastic language is all about using words in meaningless ways and that creates meaningless impact, too.
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Seeing the Unknown
We prepare for what we know and see. To address the challenges of the future, we need to imagine things
Read moreThree Lessons From Summer Vacation
This year I took a summer holiday — something I’ve not done in years — and was reminded what literally stepping
Read moreA Flood of Complexity
Yesterday Toronto was hit with a massive rainstorm that dumped more than 120mm of rain on parts of the city
Read moreComplexity and the Senseless Marketing of the Future
Futurists take what we know now and project into the future ideas about things will be like years from today
Read moreThe Lies Told By Innovation
If the forest and trees are part of the natural environment, then we need to consider them both at the same time — literally and metaphorically — in the systems we work in and do so with intent (design) otherwise we will continue to perpetuate the lies that innovation allows us to tell ourselves so well.
Read moreAmazing Stuff: December 14th Edition
Looking for awesome things, the latest in zombie attack science, solving the food shortage using Twitter, drinking tap water instead of bottles, or how little art pictures can help stimuate new thinking? Then this issue of Amazing Stuff has something for you.
Read moreAmazing Stuff: November 6th Edition
From H1N1 apps for the iPhone, seeing the beauty of islands from space, the carbon footprint of pets, exploring innovation online, and visualizing the world around us using computer-assisted tools, the first week of November has offered a lot of amazing things.
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