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What would your workplace be like…

lynsey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:27:32 +0000

… if your Mother ran it?

In my case it’d be just great. Ok, so in your case it’d be different. That makes your smart or funny or something.

So here’s the really big question.

Not for you.

For your kids.

What would your school/office/whatever be like if your ma or pa ran it?

How to think visually

lynsey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:03:41 +0000

According to Dan Roam

Visual thinking is the future of business problem solving. Using our innate ability to see?both with our eyes and our mind?s eye?gives us entirely new ways to discover hidden ideas, develop those ideas intuitively, and then share those ideas with other people in a way they are simply going to ‘get’.

Really? The future? Of course Leonardo would probably think presenting problems and solutions visually was pretty mainstream in a renaissance kind of way. Dan has shared The 10 1/2 Commandments of Visual Thinking: The “Lost Chapter” from The Back of the Napkin with us. For free. Thanks, Dan.

As you build your business, more ideas and better ways to communicate those ideas clearly and quickly are essential. Jim, one of my favorite visual thinkers, helps explain some of the creative processes in the following videos. Thanks, Jim. As you look through the videos, think about how some of the ideas can be applied in your presentations.

100 Ways to Help You Succeed/Make Money

lynsey — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:01:38 +0000

In February 2005, management uber-guru Tom Peters wrote “50 short, wonderfully sweet nuggets of advice…” – Part I of 100 Ways to Help You Succeed/Make Money. We sat around holding our breath waiting for Tom to … well, whatever. Waiting. Waiting. WAITING. C’mon Tom, do it or get off the pot. And then, in February 2008, Tom dropped Part II. Eh? 2008? Just 16-17 ways of making money per year? PER YEAR?! Well, was it worth the wait? You be the judge. Management is always something vaguely questionable to an entrepreneur, but if you get a single good idea then the documents are worth every penny. And they’re available for a free download, courtesy of the nice people over at Change This, so the idea doesn’t even have to be all that special… and, if you were to implement one micro-idea every three days for a year you’d be 100+ ideas up on your competitors by the end of the year. Where would you rather be?