“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process,…
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3 quotes on leadership, emergence, and business architecture.
Three of my favorite quotes on leadership, emergence, business architecture: “Iteration of redesign and need for continual improvement increasingly removes slack and redundancies from the system and makes the interdependencies among the parts more and more…
As people evolve, their relationship with information will change.
As the world begins to downshift, I’m seeing that people are talking about slowing down and enjoying life more. Some are quitting there corporate jobs and starting up their own small businesses and committing to…
Innovation matters in politics.
A number of friends in politics have asked me recently about the role that design and innovation can play in creating effective civic systems. The three articles below offer perspective on innovation and politics. As…
IBM has positioned itself for growth.
IBM is in the design business. The links below will give you perspective on what they are up to. I will be watching to see how this develops over the next few years–and to see…
Leaders make their own gravity.
Leaders build organizations around a common vision. It may require bold, decisive action that is counter to popular opinion. Leadership isn’t for everyone and it can be lonely at times. Want to know how to…