I think there might be something to this blog thing. Last night, I put up a blog for our local buddhist group at zendenver.org – I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. Ms. Jill Hadley Hooper did the intro animation and the backgrounds, and we worked together on the layout and design. [...]

Ways in which Content Creation is like Gardening A few years ago I read a book by Paul Hawken entitled “Growing A Business”, in which he presented his opinions on how best to define a business strategy; as one of the founders of Smith and Hawken, he has a unique perspective based in personal passion [...]

“A desire to frame dialogue in concrete terms is what led me to use various forms of modeling and prototyping. In his book “Serious Play,” Michael Shrage calls this ‘Externalized Thought,’ and goes on to say: “Mental models become tangible and actionable only in the prototypes that management champions… Models are not just tools for [...]

A lot of what I do in my worklife involves helping people to be creative. I think that is why once a year or so I reread a book by James Webb Young entitled “A Technique for Producing Ideas”. The book, based on lectures that Mr. Young gave at the University of Chicago Business School [...]