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Hindsight Links for Jun 24, 6:00 am

// June 24th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

The Happiness Dividend, Shawn Achor @ HBR.org:
Nearly every company in the world gives lip service to the idea that “our people are our greatest asset.” Yet…
The Flipside of Cisco’s Flip Decision, Team @ HBR.org:
In 2009, I purchased a Flip HD camcorder. Around the same time, Cisco purchased Flip, the company, for about $600…
Square, ATMs, and the Pace of Transformation, Scott Anthony @ HBR.org:
Remember how after Chemical Bank launched the first Automated Teller Machine in the 1960s, waves of bank branches shut down?…
Post 9-11, Deborah Herr @ Cool Hunting:
As its name suggests, OHWOW’s “Post 9-11″ show presents work by nine New York-based artists whose pieces are evocative of the mixed American mood following the attacks on that day in September 2001. While none of the work addresses the pivotal event explicitly, the curators explain that the exhibition…
Imagining the future of information graphics, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
While information graphics have been around for decades, their current form is brand new (or kind of old, if you’re counting in Internet years). Just like the Web, information and data graphics will continue to evolve in line with improving technology and growing amounts of data. Sarah Slobin, of The …

Hindsight Links for Apr 22, 6:00 am

// April 22nd, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

Customer-Centric Continuous Improvement, Team @ HBR.org:
[This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.] Improving customer value continuously is difficult in almost any organization. That’s…
A Walk In Our Shoes, Ami Kealoha @ Cool Hunting:
Scandinavian label Leifsdottir channels today’s “modern woman” with a mix of avant-garde cuts, gorgeously art-inspired patterns, a bold use of color and an approach to femininity that’s equal parts confident and seductive. So, when asked to participate in a video project documenting a day in the life of their…
Cities Are the Answer. What Was the Question?, Douglas Foy @ HBR.org:
This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership…
Life captured in data, charts, and graphs, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
Nice piece from NYT on seeing your life in data: “There’s going to continue to be innovation with new, powerful data around the plumbing of the human body,” [Jason] Jacobs said. “What everyone is starting to realize is that it’s great to collect data, but somebody needs to make sense …
Pokitt, Graham Hiemstra @ Cool Hunting:
For most, comfort and convenience come first when choosing daily accessories. A new solution to Costanza-size wallets, Pokitt is a form-fitting little card holder conceived around the idea of simplicity on-the-go. Constructed entirely of a soft flexible polymer material and measuring less than 1/2″ thick, Pokitt is just the…

Hindsight Links for Mar 18, 6:00 am

// March 18th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

Three Questions that Will Kill Innovation, Team @ HBR.org:
A big insurance company I know of wants to design a radical new future, so they have committed significant resources…
Open thread: What data do you want to see visualized?, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
There is so much data available and new data released every day, but not all of it is that interesting. Some is spotty and some doesn’t make sense. However, there is also a lot of exciting data to play with. Have you come across any datasets or sources that you …
Colé, Paolo Ferrarini @ Cool Hunting:
With strong roots in the Milanese tradition of furniture-making, the new design firm Colé will debut at the coming 2011 Design Week, bringing with it a modern take on usefulness in design. The thinking behind the brand draws on the industry experience of Matteo De Ponti (brand manager of…
Twitter Locks Down, Ending Its Reign as the Next Big Thing, Team @ HBR.org:
When we started building online communities six years ago, we told our early clients that they had a limited window…
Why I’m Glad I Got Fired, Team @ HBR.org:
I came to be an expert on collaboration because Carol Bartz both hired me and fired me — within 18…

Hindsight Links for Feb 25, 6:00 am

// February 25th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

True size of Vatican City, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
We saw the true size of Africa, relative to the world’s largest countries, by Kai Krause last year. Taking it in the other direction, xefer shows the true size of Vatican City, world’s smallest state, with an area of approximately 110 acres. That’s just big enough to house a handful …
An atomic theory of business size, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
The magic of the periodic table is that every atom is one thing or another–there isn’t a stable element that’s sort of oxygen and sort of nitrogen. If there were, there would be millions of elements, not a few hundred….
Wow, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
I came upstairs to my office at 5:15am this morning with a simple plan. I was going to read through the comments to yesterdays post and select one and write a blog post. 5am to 7am is my writing/thinking time….
Design Indaba: Pecha Kucha, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
From the seven recent design graduates highlighted for their distinct talents at Cape Town’s Design Indaba conference on creativity, three particularly stand out for their innovative viewpoint and compelling demonstrations. While the others—Camille Blin, Dirk Van Der Kooij, Lindsay Kinkade and Christine Goudie—all presented well-founded concepts in their respective fields,…
Gibbon Slacklines, Evan Orensten @ Cool Hunting:
From its origins in the 1970s—when it was used by climbers for practising their moves in parking lots and eventually to bypass terrain that was hard to climb across—Slacklines have more recently also become a great training tool to strengthen your core and improve your balance or just fun…

Hindsight Links for Dec 10, 6:00 am

// December 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

Designing for Propensity, Team @ HBR.org:
Compare a standard company org chart with a network analysis of the day-to-day relationships and interactions in the same company….
Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics, Team @ HBR.org:
Something I wrote last week motivated Paul Krugman to riff: By 1988, it was already obvious that equilibrium business cycle…
How to Reach Out After Losing Touch, Team @ HBR.org:
What’s worse than having the perfect person to reach out to about a job opportunity, a career switch, or an…
College football coaches’ ballots, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
Brett Coffman and Juan Thomassie for USA Today have a look at how college coaches from the top 25 teams ranked other teams. You can look at it from two directions. You can look at the data by team, and see what all the other coaches ranked a team, along …
Nine Giftable Spirits, Julie Wolfson @ Cool Hunting:
With small batch spirits and one-of-a-kind bottles on the rise, an increasing number of producers are literally bringing something new to the table. Whether it’s a 100-proof rye whiskey or champagne encased in copper you’re after, these boozy options will make you welcome at the door of any holiday party….

Hindsight Links for Nov 26, 6:00 am

// November 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

Are we there yet? Ten years on from the decade of reconciliation, paitken @ Australian Policy Online – Research:
Creator: Jacqueline Phillips Creator: Kate Aubrey-Poiner Calling o…
Happy Turkey Day, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots and lots and lots. Rest. Then eat more.
A modern thanksgiving, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
Wherever you are, you could celebrate Thanksgiving today. Not the Thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest before the long winter, the holiday of pilgrims and pie. That’s a holiday of scarcity averted. I’m imagining something else… A modern Thanksgiving would celebrate……
Why a Happy Brain Performs Better, Sylvia Ann Hewlett @ HBR.org:
Featured Guest: Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That…
Thanks For Entrepreneurs, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
It’s Thanksgiving. And I woke up thinking about entrepreneurs. It was probably this awesome Steve Blank blog post that caused that. Steve says: I believe that we will look back at this decade as the beginning of an economic revolution…

Hindsight Links for Sep 10, 6:00 am

// September 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

What Books Should Asian Leaders Read?, Team @ HBR.org:
What are the must-read classical and contemporary books — Western or Asian — that do, or should, shape the personal…
Advice to the HP Board: Get Over It, Jeffrey Pfeffer @ HBR.org:
In business school we teach students about game theory, which entails understanding payoff structures and making rational decisions in situations…
Bon Ami Redux, Ami Kealoha @ Cool Hunting:
While I have my own obvious reasons for buying Bon Ami, the brand name wasn’t the only reason it was a staple in my household when I was growing up. Hippie moms like mine followed the lead of generations of housewives, choosing the chick that “hasn’t scratched yet” over…
The Power to Pull Prosperity, Umair Haque @ HBR.org:
By now, you might be grudgingly inclined to agree: there’s no recovery because this isn’t just another humdrum recession. You…
The future of self-service banking, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
Too many slots. Too many buttons. Spanish bank BBVA and design consultancy IDEO rethink the ATM: ATMs were first introduced over 40 years ago and since then many features have been incrementally added to the machines, in order to fulfill the dream of a truly “automated teller”. Modern ATMs offer …

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