If you’re in D.C., please consider coming to a great event sponsored by the Washington Board of Trade: A conversation with Alan Webber about his terrific new book, Rules of Thumb.Tuesday, June 2, 20098am to 10amThe Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner1700 Tysons BlvdMcLean, VA Register here
“An economy that is more entrepreneurial, less managerial, would be less subject to the kind of distortions that occur when corporate managers’ compensation is tied to the short-term profit of distant shareholders. For most entrepreneurs, profit is at once a more capacious and a more concrete thing than this. It is a calculation in which
Jennifer Caleshu, Director of Communications of the fantastic Bay Area Discovery Museum, sends this terrific example of emotionally intelligent signage from the trash cans at the new California Academy of Sciences.Notice how the third sign really makes you stop, think, empathize, and (probably) change your behavior.
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Johnny Bunko continues to be the unknown muse of 2009 commencement speakers. Here’s Google CEO Eric Schmidt echoing Bunko Lesson One: “Don’t bother to have a plan at all. All that stuff about having a plan, throw that out.” (HT: Drew Weilage, via Jeff Jarvis)
Did Tomas Nilson just tell the entire Little Red Riding Hood story using nothing but infographics?You’re damn right he did. Just watch below. (via Flowing Data)
A five-country survey, commissioned by Philips and reported in today’s Financial Times finds that the recession exacting another price: Lost zzzz’s. “The average manager is sleeping 19 percent less than the recommended eight hours a night.” “Some 40 percent of those questioned blame the state of the global economy for their insomnia.” [What do the other 60
That President of ours sure can give a good speech. Check out this clip from this commencement address at Arizona State University.My hunch is that Johnny Bunko wasn’t on the desk of his speechwriters, but Obama nonetheless touches on several Bunko lessons — from “Leave an imprint” to “Make excellent mistakes” to Reader Lesson 7:
Emotionally intelligent signage won’t change the world in an end-world-hunger/solve-the-climate-crisis/bring-genocidal-dictators-to-justice sort way. But I do think it can make people’s lives a little bit better.And since we’ve turned this site into something of a clearinghouse for this idea, folks have started to ask for (your) help. Case in point: Lesley, on behalf of an Ontario
