Tag: innovation

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Sep 12, 2012 Make Stone Soup “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality”. Read More

Sep 5, 2012 Enlighten and Entertain From grade school and up we put our wares on exhibition and show and tell the story of our stuff. Read More

Aug 29, 2012 Show; don’t tell “Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.” (The Beatles) Read More

Aug 22, 2012 From Theory to Practice Enlightenment may be in some degree an article of faith but in substance it is an act of investigation and demonstration. Read More

Aug 15, 2012 Take Multiple Shots on Goal The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.” Read More

Aug 8, 2012 Getting Better Every Day in Every Way Nineteenth Century French psychologist turned célébrité Émile Coué famously recommended that repeatedly chanting “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better” would activate the subconscious mind in the process of personal improvement. Read More

Jul 26, 2012 Apprentice the Sorcerer “But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. Read More

Jul 13, 2012 Go Double Dutch We see him emblazoned like a superhero on the glossy covers of popular business comic books. Read More

Jun 20, 2012 Hide Inside Trojan Horses “It’s better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.” Read More

Jun 14, 2012 Break Down the Game Film American football is a game of strategy and confidence tricks that would make a flimflam man rosy. Read More

Jun 5, 2012 Forget 80/20; Use the 20/80 Rule Instead Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.” Read More

May 23, 2012 Viva la Revolucion French Enlightenment philosopher and impecunious renegade Jean-Jacques Rousseau emblematic bon mot “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” was not just an observation on the state of pre-Republican Europe but also a commentary on our self-imposed servitude. Read More