I’m getting back into the swing of living urban. Coffee shops and a killer french cruller within walking distance. Sounds of human life drifting in on morning breeze. Alternate Tuesday street cleaning and parking tickets… My wife and I started out on the Plaza in Kansas City. Relaxed compared to hard core Chicago city life, [...]
Posts under ‘Frog Thoughts’
A Question of Streamlining…
In the Managing Technology and Innovation MBA course I am teaching this summer there is a paper due at the end of term that has a minimum and maximum page count. One of my more talented students asked me if there is a penalty for going over the ten page limit. Thought my reply might [...]
StillWaters, KickStarter and Hi-Tech Cardboard Creativity…
Teaching college has been an energizing event. It’s a nice reminder as the grown-ups have difficulty getting along that there is a great batch of excited, imaginative youth coming up the road – ready to disrupt with gusto. What I’m seeing up close now is the impact new tools have on the ability jump-start ideas. [...]
I’m One of Many Seeds, and Happy To Be…
“My positioning statement is two words: “Empower people.” What’s your’s?” Guy Kawasaki, Enchantment Bringing about change is a lot like swimming upstream. Everything and everyone pushes you to run fast with them promising safer, faster, easier waters via alternative compass headings. But changemakers in the world not only swim against the current, they pull thousands [...]
Are You An Artist Or A Scientist?
Brad Shorr recently asked his readers if they considered themselves more marketing scientist or marketing artist. This idea of ‘artist vs scientist’ runs deep today and has implications for education and innovation regardless of what profession we are discussing. The first note I have of this cultural divide being discussed as a critical issue to [...]
