It's too easy. There are so many ways you could point out how two things don't work together. The harder, more important work is finding common ground. Doing the empathy work necessary to integrate …
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The “wow” factor
It matters. Especially when you're working with young people or skeptics. People who don't quite believe in the value yet. People who aren't bought in. If you can "wow" them, or more importantly, if …
The Disney Trash Cans
In a class I took, I heard an experiment that Disney did years ago. They found the maximum distance people would travel to throw away trash. Say it was x feet. Then they made sure at any given time, …
The pitch collaboration
When the goal is to support entrepreneurship, why create a competition when there doesn't need to be one? Opportunity is abundant and choosing a scarce number of winners disregards that fact. Rather …
Writing it down
Writing it down never hurt. All the swirling thoughts in your mind. Write them down. The uncertainties, the fears, the dreams. Write them down. The chaos, the stress and the to-dos. Write them …
Zoom in zoom out
What is the thing? Why does it matter? Zoom in on something concrete. Zoom out to make an abstraction. Zoom in on a specific example. Zoom out to draw a broader conclusion. Design, innovation …