From TED.com Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity. American artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, […]
A Whack on the Side of the Head
– Roger Von Oech
April 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It’s difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you’re always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.” In our day to day lives, we seldom have a need to think outside the box. We tend to do […]
Getting to YES
– Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
March 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury. Reissued in 1991 with additional authorship credit to Bruce Patton, the book made appearances for years on the Business Week” Best Seller” list. The book suggests a method called “principled negotiation or negotiation of merits.” Members of the Harvard Negotiation […]
Less stuff, more happiness
– Graham Hill
March 4, 2014 By
From TED.com Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability, and tweets […]
McDonald’s: Behind The Arches
– John F. Love
March 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
McDonald’s is the story of an American business success, a company that proved the value of hard work, ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instincts. In McDonald’s: Behind the Arches, business writer John F. Love tells the astonishing story of the people and the strategies, the innovation and the brilliance that turned a single hamburger stand into a […]
How to Win Friends & Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
February 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you!Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, […]
Growth, Change
February 3, 2014 By
Growth is painful, Change is painful. But NOTHING is as painful AS STAYING STUCK SOMEWHERE YOU DON’T BELONG
Flow, the secret to happiness
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
January 3, 2014 By
From TED.com Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of “flow.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has contributed pioneering work to our understanding of happiness, creativity, human fulfillment and the notion of […]
