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Leadership IS Creativity IS Design

  • June 22, 2013
  • MPJ
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YESTERDAY’S post was Leadership IS Creativity. Shortly afterwards I saw the post: “There Are A thousand Noes For Every Yes“, over at Alesandra Blakeson’s User Friendly blog, featuring a great short clip from Apple (re-posted below). I wish everyone who designs anything, understood this: Any act of creativity is ultimately an act of design.  Even…

Leadership IS creativity.

  • June 19, 2013
  • MPJ
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Creativity, at is essence, is the process of finding a way to get from what is, to what could be.  One imagines something new, something one wishes to make real, and the creative process is the means by which one then brings that idea, that vision, into reality.  It’s not linear – the process itself…

Time to think

  • June 5, 2013
  • MPJ
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Alarm.  iPhone.  Get ready.  iPhone.  Commute.  iPhone.  Email.  Meetings.  Lunch.  iPhone. Clients.  More meetings.  iPhone.  Drinks.  Commute.  Gym.  TV.  Internet.  Sleep. Do it again. You live a full life.  It’s no doubt easier than life was for your forebears a few generations ago, but it’s also faster-paced, more varied, and filled with countless more distractions….

John Allison at Cato

  • March 6, 2013
  • MPJ
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FORMER CEO at BB&T Bank, John Allison, is now heading up the Cato Institute.  BB&T, lead by Allison, was one of very few banks that didn’t succumb to the government-induced incentive to originate mortgages to people who couldn’t really afford them (sub-prime), and hence came through the GFC relatively unscathed.  The BB&T Philosophy, thanks to…

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