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Fave idea of the week : May 16th, 2008

   When Nathan Moody did his brown bag for us, he mentioned delivering a magpie piece...the shineyshiney stuff that catches the eye. I'm a total crow/magpie/squirrel...something shiney generally rules my…

Fave idea of the week : May 2nd, 2008

    Adaptive Path holds frequent brown bag lunches where we invite folks to talk about interesting ideas. Andrew Blau joined us from Global Business Network to talk about scenario planning…

Fave idea of the week : Apr 25, 08

There's something interesting about disconnecting natural and intuitive. They really aren't the same thing, yet I have often assumed they are. If you look up intuitive, you'll find synonyms: natural, innate. And if you…

Fave idea of the week : Apr 18th, 2008

This one got me thinking...at the latest all-hands meeting we were discussing consulting projects, and Trisha said this evocative thing..."How do you want to be incented? Do you want to…

Fave idea of the week : April 11th, 2008

 During a discussion about companies and how they are structured/how they change/how they move, Rachel reminded me of the all-important feature of slime mold: they know when to signal.    It's…

Fave idea of the week : April 4th, 2008

Working in a user experience company, I use a bunch of words to describe user-centered design: user experience, user engagement, interaction design, experience design, there's a lot of words out…

Fave idea of the week : March 28, 2008

When Ryan said..."it wasn't innovative...but it was innervative" It got me thinking...first of all, I didn't really know what innervative meant, but I thought it had something to do with…

I’m a thinker, not a feeler

Peter blogged about his empathy quotient, and a bunch of us joined in the test. I ranked low, which didn't really surprise me. I was a 36 out of 80.…