Kids are naturals at Cardboard Creativity
Or as Brad Shorr once pointed out, in this case corrugated creativity… This ad made me smile. (Link to McDonalds new Kid’s Meal ad over at Creativity Online)
Category Archives: Frog Thoughts
The Importance of What You Measure
I’ve often found that questioning basic assumptions and measurements can be a powerful way for organizations to re-energize. The adage ‘you get what you measure’ holds power. Which is why the Wall Street Journal’s report “The Simple Idea That Is Transforming Health Care” caught my eye this morning. Asking health questions through the lens of ‘Quality of Life’ provides different answers and different perspectives than ‘How Can I Fix You.’ Curative issues still rise to the top, but how they are addressed may fundamentally change in ways that may save money or may simply change lives. Thought it was worth more than a tweet…
Disagreeable Discourse Solves Problems
American Censorship Day was organized by a number of organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation to raise awareness of legislation that is being developed in the United States that would significantly change free discourse available via internet technologies. And thus the image that covers the FrogBlog.biz header and that you are seeing in various places: I certainly don’t like everything I see on the internet. I am at various times annoyed, disgusted, and angered. But it is important to remember when things that are distasteful leak through, this is also the technology that helped bring some of the most totalitarian regimes left on earth to their knees. When free nations choose to censor what disgusts them, they are also providing cover to the regimes who chose to censor simple political discourse. For that reason alone any legislation that proposes to ‘fix’ the free wheeling style of the internet must be … Continue reading
…and then the table across the room broke into song.
We’re exploring restaurants within walking distance these first few days in Zagreb. Our excursions have been to places my lovely wife remembered well, or at least thought she did. It appears the entrepreneurial spirit is bubbling here with places opening and closing, businesses being bought and sold. Monday night we ate with the new owner of a small pizzeria downstairs. He offered to help us order when it became obvious that the instructions we had received were insufficient for the occasion. He ordered ‘the lady’s’ first request – but chose something ‘spicier’ for the ‘gentleman.’ Pride of product. Pizza with uniquely Croatian sausage. Yum. Owner for little over a month, he was learning the ropes of his new gig, thinking about changes and additions. Appeared young, yet not his first place – his first was a bar when only 22. A serial entrepreneur. A veteran. Eighteen hour days were exhausting, … Continue reading
…astound ourselves
I usually wait till I’ve actually read a book before I start talking about it. But this morning I finally opened How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, and ran into the quote: “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas Edison That’s a great quote to wake up to.