January 2010
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Jan 28th
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WatchWatch
bmdesign: Seth Godin outlines a common creative affliction: sabotaging our projects just before we show them to the world. Godin targets our “lizard brain” as the source of these primal doubts, and implores us to “thrash at the beginning” of projects…
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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“Almost seven out of ten Western Australians have insufficient problem-solving...”
– Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Jan 28th
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Resilient Futures →
Jan 26th
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Reos on Complexity and the Future
A challenge is tough when it is complex in three ways. A challenge is dynamically complex when cause and effect are interdependent and far apart in space and time; such challenges cannot successfully be addressed piece by piece, but only by seeing the system as a whole. A challenge is socially complex when the actors involved have different perspectives and interests; such challenges cannot...
Jan 26th
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“A character in Rent, Jonathan Larson’s Broadway musical about struggling artists...”
– Reos
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 21st
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Julia Gillard's Issues
Subject: Transcript for the Hon Julia Gillard MP - 21/1/2010 ISSUES: My School website; Tony Abbott. I think you got more issues than that Julia!
Jan 21st
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“The legal structures that social enterprises are forced to choose stifle growth...”
– Serial entrepreneur and former BBC Dragon Doug Richard
Jan 21st
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“History has shown us that you can’t have a sustainable peace without...”
– Commonwealth Secretariat’s top legal advisor
Jan 21st
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“All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and...”
– Buddha (via algundiatalvez) (via crystalhays)
Jan 20th
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“The goal of political systems should be to make people happier - not richer....”
– Bruno Frey
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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“Unemployment has probably passed its peak. Another remarkable number....”
– JP Morgan economist Helen Kevans
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Each package of Ramen contains about 167 feet of...
ohyeahfacts (source via TallWhitney)
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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“The Catecholamine-Creative-Innovation Hypothesis. This hypothesis suggests that...”
– The Neuroscience of Curiosity (via bmdesign)
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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“You can stop clapping now if you want. Really. You’ll need your energy for...”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
Jan 12th
“My vision of hell is a lentil casserole.”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
Jan 12th
“I can’t control the kittens. Too many whiskers! Too many whiskers!”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
Jan 12th
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“I’ve got a really terrible terrible feeling about this custard tart....”
– Sleep Talkin’ Man
Jan 12th
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“Do you like what you see? No? Well, bloody look harder. Strain your eyes!”
– Sleep Talkin Man
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Design Thinking in the MBA world →
bmdesign: As spearheaded by Dean Roger Martin of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Design Thinking continues to be heralded as the most promising tool to lead our business schools into the future. The New York Times
Jan 11th
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