In this post, I take a look at the conversation that was scribed which focuses on the topic of lateral thinking, the author Edwards de Bono and building your toolbox for idea creating. Many of these same concepts play out in Graphic facilitator' and Graphic Scribes' worlds. In the thINKing Canvas below, the group explores …
Peaking Behind the Curtain
On November 13th, 2012 13 people and myself participated in an intimate event hosted by James Gilmore, co-author of "The Experience Economy; Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage". With a bit of word play in the title, this event was a day long peek at the history that guided two authors to produce, …
Reflections of TEE
For those in the know, this past September in San Francisco, Pine and Gilmore held their annual thinkAbout. An event that embraces the concepts and principles that drive or evolve economic offerings into an experience. Unfortunately, my attendance was hampered this year by many issues, too many to bore you with. Instead of sulking in …
Oh Chit!
Okay, I need to warn you, there may be a heavy pun activity around this post. And that ain't no chit, that's a fact. Instead of me trying to find a worthy person to share my good chit with, I decided to follow tradition of ancient nobles and lords and allow all to challenge in …
Send The Freak
Okay, here’s the scoop… Every year around mid-September, Joe Pine and James Gilmore authors of “The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre and Business a Stage” host an exciting and explosive mental think tank called thinkAbout. It becomes the gathering of some of the most creative and unconventional thinkers from around the world, all focusing in …
Visualizing Truth
"If an idea is true in all aspects, it then should be able to be blended with another true idea and not contradict nor waver." I don't remember who told me this or what was the event that may have surrounded this subject only that I felt it was time to challenge this idea as …
Cave Walling, 40,000 Years Later
Bring cave wall storytelling into the modern age of collaborative thinking.
Price of Admission
In a past post I wrote about setting the stage for your business offering. I would like to step a bit further back into the customer journey, back to the front door shall we say. A few years ago I was challenged by two authors to consider my business differently. They asked each of us …
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