by mmartyn | Jan 18, 2011 | Brain, Change, Enterprise Alignment, Human Behavior, Leadership, Systems Design, Teams
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” — Alvin Toffler Robert Krulwich of NPR distilled decades of research in an attempt to answer the question, “why...
by mmartyn | Jan 13, 2011 | Change, Cultural Enablers, Engagement, Growth, Human Behavior, Leadership, Teams
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. Leaders who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” – Anonymous Listening is a skill…and for most of us, it is...
by mmartyn | Jan 4, 2011 | Change, Continuous Improvement, Design, Leadership, Teams
Scott Wilson is the founder of MINIMAL (MNML), a hybrid design studio with a growing blue chip client roster, numerous self-manufactured products and joint ventures in development. An accomplished designer and former Global Creative Director at Nike, his work has...
by mmartyn | Dec 16, 2010 | Change, Continuous Improvement, Culture, Innovation, Leadership
“If they had to wait for inspiration or a good idea, few scenes would ever begin. Players step onto the stage because that is where things are happening. They just show up. Then the magic begins.” – Patricia Ryan Madson We make change too complicated. We...
by mmartyn | Oct 1, 2010 | Change, Changing Behavior, Human Behavior, Results
“We have declared war on work as a society…it is a civil war…a cold war.” – Mike Rowe from “Dirty Jobs” Mike Rowe had it right when we said we are ”waging a war on work.“ It seems as if more and more, people avoid rolling up their...
by mmartyn | Sep 28, 2010 | Change, Continuous Improvement, Culture
In a 2009 TED talk on his theory of singularity, Ray Kurzweil used the example of the Human Genome Project (sequencing DNA) to explain the path and power of exponential growth. Started in 1990, HGP began the process of mapping the sequence of the genome, which proved...
