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Visual Business Cliche’ Poster from @xplane

December 22, 2009

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New book is on my Amazon Wish List Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell (via @mitchjoel)

December 15, 2009

Author Malcolm Gladwell talks to C-SPAN about his new book, "What the Dog Saw," a compilation of his stories appearing in "The New Yorker" magazine.

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The great alone: Scott and Shackleton’s Antarctic (via @newscientist)

December 9, 2009

Robert Scott’s ill-fated trip to Antarctica and Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross it are great tales of human endurance. Here we present photos taken by their on-board photographers, Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley, presented in the book The Heart of the Great Alone.

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Visual thinking as a metaphor – I wanted more from Seth’s blog post

November 16, 2009

I like the premise of Seth Godin’s post, Learning by analogy, but I was hoping/expecting for unique insight into using analogies and metaphors to communicate complex or abstract ideas. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been reading the reviews of Dan Roam’s book, Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas, and I can’t wait to [...]

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Eight ways to kill an idea : FLIRTing with the Crowds (via @mikearauz @elinesca)

November 16, 2009

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Both Brains and Design Thinking

November 3, 2009

We need right-brain creativity paired with left-brain analysis if we are to innovate in turbulent times. This is the conclusion reached in a recent Harvard Business Review article where companies that are structured to support left-brain/right-brain partnerships sustain creative breakthroughs year in and year out.
The idea of bringing together opposites, or at least merging disparate [...]

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Dog-Eared Books: What’s In Your Reference Library?

October 13, 2009

Have you stopped marking-up dictionaries, saving how-to manuals, and turning the corners on reference books? Has the Kindle, Evernote, Instapaper, or even social networks changed the way you collect, annotate and archive reference material?
I’m a voracious reader, and although I continue to invest in non-fiction written on dead trees (Chris Brogan’s Trust Agents and Mitch [...]

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Framing a Social Business Strategy

October 7, 2009

I had my “ah ha” moment today when Esteban Kolsky put forward a model summarizing the relationships between Social Business Strategy, Social Business Design, Enterprise 2.0, and Social CRM. Although there is still significant discussion taking place (and more than a handful of additional terms and definitions being thrown about), I like the direction the [...]

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Merlyn Gordon

Visual Business Cliche’ Poster from @xplane

New book is on my Amazon Wish List Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell (via @mitchjoel)

The great alone: Scott and Shackleton’s Antarctic (via @newscientist)

Visual thinking as a metaphor – I wanted more from Seth’s blog post

Eight ways to kill an idea : FLIRTing with the Crowds (via @mikearauz @elinesca)

Both Brains and Design Thinking

Dog-Eared Books: What’s In Your Reference Library?

Framing a Social Business Strategy

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