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Affect Redux
Jul 13Thinking About Feeling I recently learned something about affect from a counselor I met at a networking event. Just to be clear, we were using the word “affect” to describe the signs of feeling in a person’s face (or body) rather than about the feeling itself. The counselor (let’s call her Jane) told me that [...]
Real-time search, noisiness and influence
Jul 1There’s a really fascinating post over at TechCrunch today by Mary Hodder, someone who’s been working in ‘live search’ – what we now call the real-time web – for some time. The article’s definitely worth reading in its entirety, but I wanted to highlight some of the difficulties with real-time conversations that she mentions. A [...]
Getting the Feel of It
Jun 24How can you increase your business IQ by getting to the heart of daily financial matters? Emotional Reactions and Business Decisions Business etiquette does not favor evidence of feeling. It’s as though emotional reactions signify a lack of control — and therefore cloud our ability to identify, consider, or present the truth. Those who seem [...]
Alternative funding models
Jun 15I’ve seen a bit of discussion about funding models recently, and have been playing around with an interesting experiment in crowdsourcing products called quirky. For creative or product-focused businesses, it seems crowdfunding is really taking off as a concept, though I’ve yet to hear much in the way of actual success stories. The idea’s fairly [...]
Innovative Thinking: Working Toward a Sustainable Solution
Jun 11I talked to business leaders across contexts for over three years about how they could identify a talented learner. This sample included prominent educators, psychologists, small business owners, parents, and corporate giants. The results I published in the last post. So if international leaders — from primary school teachers to CEOs — want to develop [...]
When the sun shines…
Jun 9…entrepreneurs find any excuse to work outdoors instead of indoors. If only a laptop existed that wasn’t entirely unusable in a bit of sun, with an infinite battery, and with the ability to pick up WiFi signals from the middle of the Meadows. Fortunately, I’ve been doing a lot of planning lately, and planning is [...]
Feel the Burn? Or the Opportunity?
Jun 5Every child is an artist. The Problem is how to remain an artist once (s)he grows up. –Pablo Picasso Continuing from the last few posts: What about the relationship between observation and analysis — the space between sight and insight — demands attention for successful business practice? Executives are not the only ones who are [...]
