Posted in Design, Home, Innovation, Trends on Dec 22nd, 2007
Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes:
Collaborative Thinking
Process Mindedness
Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Human-centered
Tech/Business focus
Systems thinking
Synthesis
Rapid Concept Generation
Envisioning
Rapid Prototyping
Visualizing
Catalyzing decision-making
Storytelling
Realizing
Roadmapping
Managing transformation
Source: Nussbaum on Design
I would add empathy, aesthetics, creativity, and customer-focus to the list.
Stanford’s D school believes great [...]
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Posted in Home on Dec 22nd, 2007
Food for thought:
“Sound when stretched is music.
Movement when stretched is dance.
Mind when stretched is meditation.
Life when stretched is celebration.”
~Shri Shri Ravishankar Jee ~
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In this Issue:
Upcoming public workshops
Creativity at Work across the Commonwealth:
Vancouver, Victoria, Singapore, and Sidney
Rituals and Celebrations:
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
~ Leonard Cohen ‘Strange Music’
I used to think rituals and ceremonies (especially religious ones) were a colossal [...]
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Posted in Home on Dec 19th, 2007
Are you stumped for ideas about what to give this holiday season? One of my coaching clients recently expressed annoyance at shopping for “stuff” that she doesn’t want to buy, and that family members probably don’t really want to receive. After a certain age we don’t really want more stuff. We want experience. When I [...]
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Influencing For Impact Course # 141
UBC Vancouver BC
January 18, 2008
1 day 9:00-4:00 pm
With Linda Naiman
The success of your project and the course of your career depends on your ability to influence people to get things done.
This highly interactive workshop provides an overview of developing influence, power and impact (drawn from research based in part [...]
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Test yourself to see if you are right-brain dominant or left-brained. You’ll find the results quite informative. My own results are 45% L brain and 55% R brain. No wonder I conduct whole-brain thinking workshops!
The test is part of a clever campaign by The Art Institute of Vancouver. They are looking for [...]
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Posted in Art, Science on Dec 4th, 2007
What has long been known about Monet?s later years is that he suffered from cataracts and that his eyesight worsened so much that he painted from memory. He acknowledged to an interviewer that he was ?trusting solely to the labels on the tubes of paint and to the force of habit.?
Now, thanks to modern digital [...]
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