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// May 13th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

The Worrying Trap, Thomas J. DeLong @ HBR.org:
I come from a family of worriers. We sometimes joke that at the next family reunion we should organize the…
Somewhere To Disappear, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
Somewhere to Disappear directors Laure Flammarion and Arnaud Uyttenhove admitted to the packed audience at the Q&A session following the film’s NYC premiere that they initially had no real game plan when setting out to follow Magnum photographer Alec Soth, the subject of their new documentary. While there may…
Rafael Viñoly Architects, Graham Hiemstra @ Cool Hunting:
Many of today’s up-and-coming architects are eager to design buildings with a surplus of modern bells and whistles, but even a quick study on the work of esteemed architect Rafael Viñoly shows how a true understanding of a structure’s relationship to the space surrounding it will ultimately lead to…
Julien Vallée, Adrienne So @ Cool Hunting:
The work of Québec-born graphic designer Julien Vallée practically leaps off the screen, and in some cases literally, as in a paper sculpture that he did for the 2008 Illustrative Zurich Festival. Spray from a can explodes through a stark black background into a thousand primary-colored shards, for a…
Create Brand Superfans, Matthew Rhoden @ HBR.org:
This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization. Forget customer satisfaction. It’s a lagging indicator, not a leading one,…

// February 11th, 2011 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

Wonderwall Archives 01, Team @ Cool Hunting:
From A.P.C.’s bungalow-style boutique in Tokyo to Hong Kong’s freezer-like Ice Cream store, Wonderwall, the interior design firm founded in 2000 by Masamichi Katayama, has made its name by creating a diverse range of spaces throughout Asia, the U.S….
Welcome to the Age of Dilemma, Umair Haque @ HBR.org:
Another week, another potentially destabilizing global mini-crisis. This time, it’s (yet another) global food crisis: food prices are set to…
Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy, Team @ HBR.org:
Last week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox, Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short…
The Power of the Right Question, Team @ HBR.org:
I recently spent a couple days inside a large financial services company with a team that had been tasked with…
Matt Shlian, Team @ Cool Hunting:
As teacher, paper engineer and artist Matt Shlian explains on his site, “researchers see paper engineering as a metaphor for scientific principals; I see their inquiry as basis for artistic inspiration.” His geometric sculptures elegantly reflect this strong connection to the education and scientific communities, exploring the physicality of…

// October 22nd, 2010 // Comments Off // Digests, Hindsight

The Strategic Corporal, Team @ HBR.org:
This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. Discipline. Order. Service. These are among……
The Right Mindset for Buy-In, Team @ HBR.org:
Today’s post is about how important our mindset is for achieving buy-in. Recently, one of this blog’s readers, Bob Ferrer,…
Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People, Ami Kealoha @ Cool Hunting:
If Carrie Bradshaw embodied the modern woman of the early 2000s, then Amy Sedaris (who made a few cameos on the show) might be just the clever lady to lead us out of the Great Recession and into the next decade. Along with her crack team of outfits and…
Shape Perceptions of Your Work, Early and Often, Jeffrey Pfeffer @ HBR.org:
This election season, like every politically fraught time, offers many lessons in the getting and wielding of power. What you…
Change The Ratio Discussion, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
The Change The Ratio group met last night at Hunch’s offices down the street. I sat with #changetheratio founder Rachel Sklar and talked about the “women in tech” discussion. Here’s a link to the entire video. It’s long but for…

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