‘Strategic Thinking’ Archive

Floops – visual systems thinking language

FloopsView more presentations from ngogerty. Hmm, I am a fan of (systems thinking) methodologies and tools for visualization, so this visual feedback language proposal by Nick Gogerty looks interesting. Might use this and see if it’s working, ie. how well one can communicate systems behaviour and complexities with floops (besides, floops is a name just too […]

Patterns as holistic framework for building

Patterns, Components, and Code, Oh My! By Erin Malone (check out the excellent series on working with patterns and the equally interesting book)

5 Things You Need To Know About Resistance

1. Resistance is a good thing; it’s the energy that fuels change; 2. It’s about emotions, and in the first place: your own; 3. It’s about relations, first on trust and then on agreement; 4. It’s about platforms – a platform for emotions; not a burning platform; 5. It is about you – up close […]

Cut down on business ideas?

Well, Bootstrapping can be good, but you need to know when to scale it up … there’s a difference between lingering on and pursuing natural, organic growth. Whatever happened to big thinking in business (you know the answer, it’s alive and well). Transcript here.

Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

How could I resist video footage of a talk named this way? And Simon Wardley is always worth the time and attention. More Oscon 2010 footage via the O’Reilly channel

Descartes 2.0

Great visualizations – found via Jason Kottke via Tyler Strause on buzz of course.

Technology is a mirror

Just for the record, buzzed about it before STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.