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The last few months have taken me on a fascinating journey into design thinking. Books like The Design of Business by Roger Martin, Tim Brown’s Change by Design, and Design-Driven Innovation by Robert Verganti have given me a language and a way of thinking about organizational design. The latest step in the journey? Design Thinking: Integrating [...] What motivates what you do? Is it money? Is it reward or recognition? Turns out that what motivates most of us isn’t what we’ve thought. You may remember author Daniel Pink from his bestseller, A Whole New Mind. He’s back with an intriguing take on motivation. [...] How tuned in is your organization? I asked a friend who had just moved to a new organization, “How’s the new reality?” He said, “To borrow a phrase from Leonard Sweet, I live in the Google Era, but my work environment is Gutenberg Era.” Makes you think, doesn’t it? How many of our organizations are operating [...] I get sent a lot of books. I skim a lot of them. There are some that I make a serious attempt because it’s on a topic that grabs me. A few pull me in from page one and never let me go. One of those arrived on Thursday. Chief Culture Officer by Grant McCracken develops [...] One of the blogs I read almost everyday is Gaping Void by Hugh MacLeod. Word of warning…sometimes often profane. At the same time, Hugh’s insight is very keen. Not every post or cartoon is dead on, but a lot of them are. There are definitely times when you just have to nod your head. There [...] My copy of Six Pixels of Separation worked itself to the top of the stack today. Written by Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image, Six Pixels is an absorbing look into the art and science of connecting online. A take-off on the idea that we’re all separated by six degrees, the notion here is that [...] Whether you are a speaker or a writer you will benefit from The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience by Carmine Gallo. I’m constantly looking for ways to add a little extra snap to what I’m doing. 42 pages into this one has already [...] One of the best things about weekends is that there is usually time to pull a new book off the stack and spend some time between the covers. And every once in a while I find one that pulls me right in and really catches my attention. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms [...] What is it that separates corporations like McDonald’s from so many others? According to Roger Martin there’s more to it than hard work. Design thinking…a kind of analysis that takes something from mystery to heuristic and then to algorithm…is the real secret. Best of all? You can learn how to do it. But first, a [...] What does the future hold for your organization? Will it be more of the same? Pretty much business as usual with a twist of incremental change? Or will radical new innovations dramatically change both what your organization does…and even what is normal and customary? Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What [...] |
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