Engineers With a Whole New Mind, Part 2

Great column by Richard Felder called, "A WHOLE NEW MIND FOR A FLAT WORLD," written for the Chemical Engineering Education magazine. As you might guess, the column takes the concepts from the books, A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink and The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and applies it to the need to…

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Circus vs. Art

A great quote from George Lucas, when asked at the D: All Things Digital conference what he thought about Internet video: "There are two forms of entertaining. Circus is random. And voyeuristic. It’s basically what you see on YouTube now. I call it feeding Christians to the lions. The movie term is throwing puppies on…

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Slash Careers

If you missed the June events in Denver with Marci Alboher, kick yourself, twice.  I interviewed Marci for the Northwestern University Club of Colorado on one night and then the next night, Marci gave a talk for the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop on the topic, "Secret Lives of Writers." After this second appearance, she emailed that…

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Asia and Abundance

In A Whole New Mind, Dan Pink talks about Asia and Abundance as two factors making the creative right brain capabilities more valuable. Asia, where many jobs have migrated to, is becoming a place where U S households are turning to get personal tasks done. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, families are…

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The Power of Story, Part 2

In a posting earlier this year, I noted a commencement speech by Steve Jobs as an example of how powerful stories can spread like wildfire.  Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported an effective marketing tool used by Wells Fargo in gaining new customers for its private-banking arm (read: managing rich people’s money). The bank…

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