Category: words

  • The Four Phases of Design Thinking – Warren Berger – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review

    The Four Phases of Design Thinking – Warren Berger – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review In summary: Question, Care, Connect, Commit.

  • Michael Bierut on (m)ad man DellaFamina

    Michael Bierut on (m)ad man DellaFamina

  • My task here is to explore the positioning of what urban business evangelist Richard Florida has branded the “creative class,” and its role, ascribed and anointed, in reshaping economies in cities, regions, and societies. In pursuit of that aim, I will consider a number of theories—some of them conflicting—of the urban and of forms of…

  • Business group chat, file sharing, group decision making: Campfire

    Business group chat, file sharing, group decision making: Campfire

  • 8 legal milestones for a startup

    8 legal milestones for a startup

  • Like everyone who studies performance, I’m indebted to the extraordinary Anders Ericsson, arguably the world’s leading researcher into high performance. For more than two decades, Ericsson has been making the case that it’s not inherited talent which determines how good we become at something, but rather how hard we’re willing to work — something he…

  • Brooding, solitary and usually male, the trope of “the artist in the studio” has existed in multiple iterations throughout the history of art. From Rembrandt’s workshop to the twentieth-century Parisian studios of Picasso, Braque and others, to Warhol’s Factory, the studio contains within it an evolving narrative, albeit one that remains focused on a specific…

  • nevver: So Much and More

  • frogMob

    frogMob frogMob is based on the idea that anyone can be an ethnographer for an hour, just by paying a little more attention to the world around them. A frogMob is a trend scrape that gathers a quick visual pulse on behaviors, trends and artifacts globally. We publish the call to action on a select…