January 2009
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Dream Cars Meet Harsh Reality
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3 min read
That’s what Phil Patton at the New York Times thought about the concept cars at the Detroit Auto Show. In the article I found some insight as well as some assumptions we can toss out… But this year, dark economic clouds seem to have cast a shadow even over the designers displaying their ideas at…
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Obama’s Design Thinking
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2 min read
(Editor’s Note: a meme like “design thinking” hasn’t really been beaten to death until it’s been associated with and used to explain popular culture :-) There were two lines in President Obama’s inaugural speech that caught my attention, signaling him as someone who can think beyond the prevailing frames and design new situations. In both…
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How To Get More Responsibility
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1 min read
Advice from Scott Berkun on the PM Clinic list: …as a general rule: 1. Do good work 2. Show good work to people who have power to give you more responsibility 3. Ask for more responsibility 4. If told NO, ask what you need to do to get more responsibility 5. Repeat