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Turning Ideas into Impact
I recently came across this great TED talk by Steven Johnson, a technology, science and innovation author who focuses on the question of where good ideas come from. Steven Johnson on TED Over the...
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Learning through Empathy
I was lucky enough to spend last Friday morning at a café in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Recently I’ve made a habit of spending Fridays there. I don’t live in San Francisco but I tend to have...
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Lessons from the Trenches: My Year in Review
It’s been a busy year of learning, stretching, growing and testing for me at IDEO. Knowing that I’m someone who likes to take stock of my progress and plan for the year ahead (see my posts here and...
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Exploring Community
These days, ‘community’ might as well be my middle name. And, I’m happy to report, it’s a topic that just doesn’t seem to get old. Here’s one aspect of community I’ve been thinking about lately: It...
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Designing for Business Impact
On OpenIDEO, our global community tackles a variety of big challenge topics, from improving maternal health using mobile technology, to providing accessible voting for citizens with mobility or...
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Change Starts at Home
Change starts at home I realized recently that it’s been a year since I last wrote on The Changebase. While I don’t like to make excuses, I think I’ve got a pretty good one: motherhood. In January...
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Three Lessons from Three Years at OpenIDEO
This February marked my three year anniversary as a member of the OpenIDEO team at IDEO – amazing how the time has flown! Maybe it’s because I’m marking this anniversary, or because our team is growing...
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The Values We Wear to Work
When you think about the work that you do – the companies you join, the teams you’re a part of, even the projects you take on – how often is your approach to that work determined by values? Sure, a lot...
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An Evolving Definition of Community
Who knew 'Presidential' was a flavor of cupcake? When I was in business school, I defined community as a collection of people – consumers especially – who were uniting around causes and missions that...
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See One. Do One. Teach One.
You know the expression, ‘See One. Do One. Teach One’? In a medical context the saying always weirded me out a bit. (Like, really? You’re going to stick me with that needle only after seeing it done by...
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