Social media guru Clay Shirky tells us in his second book – Cognitive Surplus – how and why we should stop being couch potatoes and get involved. “Cognitive surplus” is a fancy name for spare time, the kind of time we have been frittering away glued to the television. Pool that surplus and we have [...]
Author Archives: Tess Samuel
Retooling Your Brain
11/08/2011 – 9:59 pm
If you have ever grumpily contemplated options A and B, and thought “we can do better than this” – be happy! Roger Martin, author of The Opposable Mind, (Harvard Business School Press, Boston 2007) says, yes, you can. It’s all in your brain. You have an opposable mind, just as you have an opposable thumb, [...]
Change by Design – thinking Tim Brown’s way will change you too.
10/17/2011 – 6:33 pm
When Tim Brown’s book on Change by Design (HarperCollins, NY, 2009) came out it created quite a buzz and not just because it was a different way of looking at design. It was also about thinking. How to think is new? In Brown’s hands it is. This is design thinking – a way to innovate [...]
Why People Behave The Way They Do
09/13/2011 – 6:53 pm
It’s the culture. The President was hired but the faculty didn’t like her. She was gone in two years, a victim of the college culture. Now consultants Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright have produced research to show the enormous importance of culture in the workplace. Their book, Tribal Leadership (Collins Business, 2008) identifies [...]
