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Dec 18, 2022

Three Lessons from Pumpkin the Hedgehog’s School of Life & Death

Earlier this year, my partner Morgan and I said goodbye to our beloved hedgehog, Pumpkin, after an almost five month decline. His death left me reflecting on how I want to live. Here are three things I learned. Remember Mortality The Latin phrase memento mori is typically translated as “remember you will…

Life

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Three Lessons from Pumpkin the Hedgehog’s School of Life & Death
Three Lessons from Pumpkin the Hedgehog’s School of Life & Death
Life

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Jun 1, 2020

The COVID 19: Nineteen Questions to Inspire Your Team to Rethink Work

We have an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine our work and our lives. Let’s not blow it. — Everyone is talking about what normal will look like in a “post-COVID” world. Discussions abound about “going back” to work. We think that way of thinking misses an enormous opportunity that we all have right now, and we believe that we must not simply recreate work — we must reimagine…

Covid-19

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The COVID 19: Nineteen Questions to Inspire Your Team to Rethink Work
The COVID 19: Nineteen Questions to Inspire Your Team to Rethink Work
Covid-19

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·Apr 22, 2020

A Field Guide to Remote Collaboration Design

Tips & tricks are great — but how about a method for designing remote collaboration that really works for you? — This post is adapted from our Field Guide available at www.remotefieldguide.co. Why a Field Guide? The nature of work is changing. Remote work is becoming the norm for many of us. More and more teams are having to figure out how to work together remotely, and many are struggling to adapt.

Collaboration

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A Field Guide to Remote Collaboration Design
A Field Guide to Remote Collaboration Design
Collaboration

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Lightshed

·Oct 15, 2019

Master These 7 Mindsets to Elevate Your Innovation Leadership

Why knowing — and mastering — your mindset profile is so critical for effective leadership — You’ve seen it before. The way the energy in the room shifts when that one person walks in. That “grump.” …

Leadership

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Master These 7 Mindsets to Elevate Your Innovation Leadership
Master These 7 Mindsets to Elevate Your Innovation Leadership
Leadership

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Oct 7, 2019

Top Takeaways from Google’s Sprint Conference 2019

Insights, tools, & wisdom from leaders across the design sprint community — Last week was the 3rd annual Sprint Conference, hosted this year by Google in Boulder, Colorado. Top facilitators, designers, innovators, and change-makers of all kinds convened to share tools and methods for getting the most out of sprints and out of a team in creative collaboration more broadly. Below I’ve…

Design

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Top Takeaways from Google’s Sprint Conference 2019
Top Takeaways from Google’s Sprint Conference 2019
Design

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Oct 7, 2019

A Simple Tool to Prime Your Team for Design Work

Introducing the online Stoke Deck — Six years ago, I discovered an unmet need. I was working at the Stanford d.school and frequently had conversations with colleagues about how we might equip ourselves with tools to make our teaching more effective. …

Design

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A Simple Tool to Prime Your Team for Design Work
A Simple Tool to Prime Your Team for Design Work
Design

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·Jun 3, 2019

What’s Next for Design Thinking

Thoughts on the future of creative problem-solving from across the industry — A client recently asked me, “So what’s next for design thinking?” I shared some thoughts on systems thinking and talked about using virtual reality as an empathy-building tool, and then the conversation continued on to other topics. The question stuck with me over the ensuing days. More thoughts continued to…

Design Thinking

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What’s Next for Design Thinking
What’s Next for Design Thinking
Design Thinking

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Lightshed

·Mar 22, 2019

What is Innovation Leadership?

How the most effective innovation leaders show up, do great work, and superpower their teams — Take a moment to think of an exceptional leader you know. Perhaps you find this person particularly inspiring or empowering or exceptional at what they do. Perhaps you work for or with them (or have in the past, or hope to in the future). Perhaps it’s just someone you’d follow…

Leadership

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What is Innovation Leadership?
What is Innovation Leadership?
Leadership

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Lightshed

·Jan 7, 2019

Innovate Faster with Lightshed

Our approach to producing extraordinary results — I founded Lightshed with a simple yet ambitious mission: to elevate the world’s mastery of effective and sustainable creative collaboration. I believe there’s a better way to work together than most of us are accustomed to, and that better outcomes are attainable with the right approaches. …

Innovation

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Innovate Faster with Lightshed
Innovate Faster with Lightshed
Innovation

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Aug 11, 2018

Get These 16 Books to Launch Your Startup’s Library

From strategy to productivity to team dynamics, these titles will equip your team with abundant advice, wisdom, and perspective — Building a library is a great opportunity for a startup (or any business, for that matter) to invest in personal and professional development, provide problem-solving references for their team, and demonstrate the company’s cultural values. …

Books

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Get These 16 Books to Launch Your Startup’s Library
Get These 16 Books to Launch Your Startup’s Library
Books

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