Design thinking from BW

Business Week has long been a strong advocate for elevating design thinking within organizations, and I’ve collected up a few recent examples here. I constantly preach to my clients and students that design is more than mere styling, and that it is instead a part of a holistic process that incorporates the expertise of many disciplines into a cohesive statement. These Business Week articles...

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Make magazine

Make magazine is the key to lasting happiness. If you don’t subscribe, DO SO IMMEDIATELY.

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The Creative Priority

The Creative Priority : Putting Innovation to Work in Your Business by Jerry Hirshberg I found the tone of this book unnecessarily haughty, and felt constantly that Mr. Hirshberg has something to prove in writing it. This is less a book on practical innovation itself than a self-congratulatory career retrospective on the part of the author. It is clear that Hirshberg is intelligent and creative,...

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Hardcover) by Marshall Goldsmith, and Mark Reiter My boss at Bose, Gustavo Fontana, recommended this book to me after delivering a somewhat stinging–but wholly justified–performance review. The title is telling: the strengths that have helped me to succeed thus far in my career will not...

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The Wal-Mart Effect

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman I grew up shopping at Wal-Mart, and during my time at Black & Decker, I witnessed the copany in action from a whole new perspective. I was hesitant to read this book. I fully expected it to be a raving anti-capitalist memorandum on the...

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Why We Buy

Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill Chock-full of fascinating details about the behaviors of shoppers in situ. While clearly a book of shameless self-promotion for Mr. Underhill, he certainly does a good job of it! After reading this book, one is left with far more questions than answers, and an inexorable desire to sit in a shopping mall parking lot for hours on end. Paco...

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