Best Practices = Inside the Box Thinking
One of the paradoxes of best practices is that they promote unimaginativeness because if everyone followed best practices the differentiation among competing... Read More
Star Wars, Women & The Good Guys
Posted on31 Oct 2011
Tagswomen, Star Wars, Personality, good vs evil, emotions, diversity, organizational culture, business
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If you examine the two opposing sides in the Star Wars Epic, The Empire (Bad Guys) and The Rebels (Good Guys), there... Read More
Standardization: A Form of Thought Control
Posted on13 Dec 2010
TagsGeorge Orwell, Vanilla Words-Thinking Series, Vanilla Word Analogy, words, vocabulary, Thoughts, synonym, standardization, problem solving, expression, communication, 1984
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Expressing our thoughts is challenging especially when we don’t know the words to do so. Therefore, restricting our vocabulary will tend to... Read More
Improve Your Business; Find a Dissenter
Posted on21 Oct 2010
Tagsharmony, business, cognition, conflict, controversy, Copenhagen Business School, creativity, David Lean, decisions, dissent, Brooke Harrington, investment clubs, investors, movies, negative, peace, returns, Sam Spiegel, subconscious, Thomas A. Stewart, Academy Awards, Alec Guinness, BNET Blog, Bridge on the River Kwai
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A recent BNET post by Thomas A. Stewart talked about nurturing dissent and provided some valuable links. Rationally, it makes sense that... Read More