Monthly Archives: November 2007

Fast Company on Design Thinking

Design thinking in business is becoming increasingly mainstream. The October 2007 issue of Fast Company magazine has a terrific special feature section on design thinking, profiling the designers who have brought design thinking to the forefront of modern corporate thought. Particularly interesting is the article on Yves Behar, founder of fuseproject. Fuseproject, founded 8 years…

Leadership Focus

Annette Clancy from the Interactions blog posted a nice image regarding leadership focus: The message is self evident from the diagram – leaders should be focusing more on the high level direction rather than operational questions. If I was doing the diagram myself, I think I’d include the ‘what’ higher up in the diagram, in…

The Art of Persuasion: Getting Buy-In For Your Ideas

A recent post Selling Your Ideas to the Entire Organization, One Person at a Time by Mahesh M Piddshetti on the Hyper Passionate Entrepreneurs blog, contained an extremely stimulating review of the book The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas. The book is about the art of persuasion: how to get…