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The Anti-PDA

In an increasingly electronic world, it's no small irony that the hot new data-entry and storage accesssory is microchip-free.READ»

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Is a Brand Like Air?

A brand is more like air than meets the eye.READ»

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Did you forget to look for the obvious?

We all tend to wait for “special moments” to pull out our cameras and start clicking. Somehow, we need to be transcended above the everyday to get a great photo. Where do these special occasions come from, and what about the ...READ»

Art/Basel: Fine Art & Fat Cat Feeding Frenzy

Imagine going into a fine modern art museum, where the usual suspects -- Matisse, Picasso, Warhol, Leger, Klee, Kandinsky, etc. -- are arrayed on the walls. Now imagine that each one has a price tag next to it, so if you have the ...READ»

Is Your Company a Cezanne or a Picasso?

As the final speaker at the HSM World Innovation Forum yesterday, Malcolm Gladwell, the New Yorker writer, author, and Fast Company profilee, gave an interesting talk on two types of creativity, inspired by a book by David Galenson ...READ»

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Innovation For Beginners

In his classic 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the people who achieve “fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they ...READ»

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Innovation For Beginners

In his classic 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the people who achieve “fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they ...READ»

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A Beginner's Mind

In his classic 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the people who achieve "fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they ...READ»

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Poetry

8th Day: http://www.fastcompany.com/profile-blog/man-womb Kevin's Amniocentesis BIG - HUGE - BIGGER Day 7 of Man in a Womb What I write here should not be picking coral from the sea for when so picked, all one ...READ»

Stop Promoting People

I recently attended an off-site meeting for one of our major clients where we discussed how to deal with people who are doing a good job in their current capacity but don't have promotion potential. To the client this seemed like a ...READ»

Art Mania in Miami

The art world's been making headlines recently, with record auction prices for both modern and contemporary art set at Sotheby’s and Christies’ last month. But they, evidently, were simply the appetizer course to the Grand Buffet ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Innovation* But Were Afraid To Ask

This is way too long for a blog, but what the heck... “There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system”- Machiavelli (1469-1527) One of the ...READ»

Desire: Connecting With What Customers Want

There's too much of everything: a head-spinning array of products, an eye-glazing gaggle of ads, a mind-numbing barrage of information. So what are the most desirable ways to reach your customers? Melinda Davis and her Human Desire Project have developed five answers. Marketers with a desire to succeed are paying attention.READ»

Teaching entrepreneurship to Youth

In the time of the recession, I hear more people discussing the need for ‘sustainable’ innovation. As the legendary venture capitalist Eugene Kleiner would say - Even turkeys can fly in a high wind. In the times of strong ...READ»

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Design, Luxury, and Greed

Three weeks ago I watched a movie, The International, with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts. It's a boys' flick about bankers, terrorists and ex-Stassi agents. Besides the glorious violence at the Guggenheim, what caught my eye was the ...READ»

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Discovery

One of the great joys in life is the experience of discovery. Whether it's launching off on an untraveled bike trail or taking a chance on a Tuscan red on a wine shop's discontinued shelf, discovering something new is quite an ...READ»

The Ugly Underside of Success

Note to Sam Keller, director of Art Basel: If you want to continue growing your very successful art fair, you should move it to a city that can better handle its visitors, or consider pitching tents on the Messeplatz to accommodate ...READ»

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Ceo Dad Versus Dilbert Continued

Hello, Frank Pitt, CEO DAD here. An astute reader pointed out that a link to my posting of a couple of weeks ago, in which I give the business to Dilbert, would have been helpful, so here it is. I only knew about this missing ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Where is the Auto Industry’s Moore’s Law?

In the April 19, 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel made an observation about the development of integrated circuits, which are at the heart of the modern computer's ever improving ...READ»

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Feedback

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

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Liquid Agency collaborates with Michael Graves on product design project.

As the branding agency for Slice - a manufacturer of innovative products that cut, slice, grate, etc. - Liquid Agency is already collaborating with world-class architects and designers like Karim Rashid and Yves Behar. Now, Michael Graves - the renowned architect whose line of products for Target is wildly successful is developing a new line of products for Slice.READ»

Ivan Glickman

Gladwell on Talent Selection

I just got back from the American Society for Training & Development’s International Conference and Exhibition in San Diego where I was a speaker. This was a great conference – one of the best I’ve ever been to and I’ve ...READ»

Life Is a Juggling Act

Sometimes it's your schedule, sometimes it's flaming torches. Michael Moschen, the world's greatest juggler, shows you how to keep all those balls in the air.READ»

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Masters of Design: A Jury of Their Peers

Introducing 11 jurors -- top leaders from universities, cultural institutions, and business -- who helped us select our 20 Masters of Design.READ»

Work Different.

Some ad agencies just design breakthrough campaigns. TBWA/Chiat/Day also designs breakthrough offices -- from 1994's "virtual office" to today's advertising city. And every time the agency redesigns its offices, it reinvents itself.READ»