Technology for Conquering Chaos: Keynote at the Design Management Institute 24 Jun 2013 | 07:54 am

In a world where complexity is rising, innovations cycles are shrinking, and the rate of change is accelerating, what new technologies must we develop to help us adapt? "Technology for Conquering Comp...

Carne Ross on Being an Agent of Change 1 Dec 2012 | 12:55 am

Metaphors as Incompleteness 21 Nov 2012 | 10:42 pm

Writer Jorge Luis Borges described ... incompleteness in a lecture at Harvard titled simply, “The Metaphor.” In it, Borges shows how metaphors arise before language, before we find words to describe s...

Agile Leadership 11 Oct 2012 | 12:05 am

In our messy and agile marketing world, a new style of leadership is increasingly necessary. It's one that some may find uncomfortable and counter-intuitive. This is especially true for those who equa...

16 Patterns to Build Adaptive Learning Organizations 3 Oct 2012 | 03:58 am

A few years ago, I was struck by the concept of emergence and it's relation to design (or at least the ambition of designers). I spent quite a good deal of time learning about it a finding bridges to ...

Salon Interview Surrealist Dorothea Tanning 24 Sep 2012 | 08:51 pm

Wonderful Interview in Salon with the Surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning. Some great bits: "Q: You’ve lived through the Depression and several wars. What is the role of art in such times? "A: Art ha...

Charlie Chaplin final speech in The Great Dictator 29 Aug 2012 | 01:53 am

The Life Force in the Wound 10 Aug 2012 | 12:06 am

"[Like me,] I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing...

Fight The Great Fight 9 Aug 2012 | 11:42 pm

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." E.E....

Surprised Recognition 8 Aug 2012 | 01:58 am

"It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows." William Burroughs, on Gottfried Helnwein