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Rework
I have a tall stack of books at home, all of which I am in the process of reading (yes, I am one of those people). I choose to start and stop a book based on topic and sometimes the number of pages and...
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Outcome vs Process Oriented Thinking
Recently, I had cause to dig through some research on outcome vs process based thinking and decision making. The research is primarily in consumer behavior; however, it has a broader application. It...
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3 Ways To Predict What Consumers Want Before They Know It
This brief article from Scott Anthony, of Innosight and the author of The Little Black Book Of Innovation: How It Works, How to Do It, looks at consumer needs and innovation opportunities. Also...
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Can brainstorming be an effective tool in building a culture of collaboration...
My teenage son recently asked me during a conversation about brainstorming, “do we really need rules for everyone to follow?” I had just finished reading Jonah Lehrer’s “Groupthink” in The New Yorker...
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Is crisis necessary for change?
Jim Linwood. Creative Commons While it can be invigorating to hear stories of how organizations overcome crisis, we started to wonder: why does crisis tend to be such a common motivator for change?...
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Stories from the Field: LA Stage Alliance
What if you had online access 24/7 to information on over half of the households in your region, including demographic, psychographic and buying trends? What changes might you make to your programs, to...
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Deal Making 2.0: A Guide to Complex Negotiations
“Deal Making 2.0: A Guide to Complex Negotiations” David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius Harvard Business Review, November 2012 Negotiations can be like puzzles – with pieces that fit together in one way...
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Cleaning Out Our Closets
Photo: …love Maegan via Flickr Recently I was cleaning my closet and came across several items that no longer fit well or had long since gone out of style – yes, I am either “that old” or styles...
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Evaluating to Increase Impact
Photo by Jori Ketten Evaluation appeals to my intense curiosity to figure out how and why things work and don’t work. Many high performing organizations that I have come to know generally use a...
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Building Communities, Building the Field
At NAS, we have seen many examples of what happens when arts and culture works to create positive change in the social, economic and cultural well-being of communities in the US and around the world....
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