Leading With A Whole New Mind

For a truly whole brain approach to working with teams, read this article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, a problem-solving and communications methodology. I’ve been using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY with teams for the last few years, with wonderful results. Robert Rasmussen, my partner in this work, led the development of this work…

Researcher, Michael Wolf, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, is working on the design of presciption bottle labels. His big question, "Why are we not phrasing things properly on bottles?" points to a pragmatism that most of us don’t associate with design. His example: Using the words "take at 8am and 5pm"…

Michael Gerber has a whole new mind. I recently attended a one-day seminar,”Awakening the Entrepreneur Within,” given by the small biz guru. Gerber is best known for his books, The E-Myth and The E-Myth Revisited. These are the bibles for true entrepreneurs, individuals who have moved past being the “technician,” doing the hands-on work to…

Ever since I learned about the concept of slashes from Marci Alboher, I’ve become more attuned to finding them all around me. Slashes are individuals who can’t answer the question, “What do you do?” with a single vocation. What Marci calls the "exotic slashes," individuals who work in and move between starkly different worlds, are…