Best Places To Live, Enjoy Life, Start a Business, or Retire: A Novel Approach.
Best Places To Live, Enjoy Life, Start a Business, or Retire: A Novel Approach.James Clayton Napier?Hence the first principle in changing one?s character is to seek another environment, to let new forces play upon our unused chords, and draw from us a better music.? ? Will Durant I was 17 and growing up in the Midwestern farming community of just under 1,000. My youthful intent, looking out over the cornfields...
Best Places To Live, Enjoy Life, Start a Business, or Retire: A Novel Approach.
Best Places To Live, Enjoy Life, Start a Business, or Retire: A Novel Approach.James Clayton Napier?Hence the first principle in changing one?s character is to seek another environment, to let new forces play upon our unused chords, and draw from us a better music.? ? Will Durant I was 17 and growing up in the Midwestern farming community of just under 1,000. My youthful intent, looking out over the cornfields...
Best Workplacesproducing but that their value is not based on producing; that there is empathetic understanding of them.
Again, these are the exact same conditions that remove blocks and are the foundations of an optimum organisational culture. These conditions enhance creative output.
These topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power...
Best Workplaces II
The Best Workplaces report (Financial Times, April 28, 2005) notes many factors in common with Managing Creativity and Innovation.
The Best Workplaces report (Financial Times, April 28, 2005) notes many factors in common with Managing Creativity and Innovation.
Material reward is not the sole factor in determining satisfaction. Microsoft UK offers acupuncture and deep tissue massages. OC&C Strategy consultants offer skiing trips and Computer Future Solutions...
Beware of radical mint enthusiastsdiscourage kids from putting in their mouths smell like blueberries and bananas and cherries, when the toothpaste we try so hard to encourage them to put in their mouths comes in just mint.In fairness, Little Lady's edible toothpaste (Most toothpaste is inedible ? imagine that!) comes in two flavors: berry and bubble gum ... but that's not much of a choice. Surely Big Mint will soon shut down this renegade operation muscling in on their territory.I want to see...
Beyond Brainstorming
When leaders, consultants and managers require ideas, they automatically tend to herd people into a room and conduct a (usually ineffective) brainstorming session. One reason for their ineffectiveness is a failure to consider the impact of group size.
When leaders, consultants and managers require ideas, they automatically tend to herd people into a room and conduct a (usually ineffective) brainstorming session. One reason for their ineffectiveness is a failure...
Beyond Brainstorming ? Large Groupsproblems and produce 150 ideas (30 x 5) in the same time that 1 group working on 1 problem and produces 5 ideas (1 x 5).
The above and other data suggests that group size should be kept small. But there are also benefits to large groups such as a high degree of intellectual cross pollination, a high degree of competency exchange and radical frame-breaking. And what are the pros and cons of individuals working alone and in pairs?
These and other topics are...
Bijoy Goswami Interviewresult!
DS: Who are the writers that have inspired you on your journey?
BG: Wow, there are so many! Here?s a smattering that come to mind at the moment: Dr. Seuss, Peter Drucker, Salman Rushdie, Herman Hesse, Paulo Coehlo, Lao Tzu, Michael Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell.
DS: What advise would you give to budding authors reading this interview?
BG: Get started, get your work out there, find co-conspirators and know that you?re on a unique path. There is no one way to make it...
Bijoy Goswami Interview
I read an amazing book recently called the Human Fabric. It
resonated so strongly with me that I just had to find and speak
to the author himself, Bijoy Goswami.
Though it is a rare priviledge to speak to an author that has a
dramatic effect upon your life, it is worth noting the Bijoy is
more than just an author. He's also musician, a playwrite, a
public speaker, an Oxford/Stanford Scholor, a tireless networker
and entrepreneur amongst many other things...
The...
Billboards: Modern Counterparts of Van Gogh and Da Vinci
Taking a drive down an unfamiliar road, or simply driving to and from work has become nowadays more pleasurable and less stressful. What with the multitude of billboards plastered all over the city and suburbs, they have become a wonderful centerpiece with the backdrop of heaven and earth.Have you ever imagined what life would be like without these big, larger than life posters and signage to aesthetically improve our place? Are you...
