Category: Craftsmanship

A humanistic, creative, and reflective approach to work and life

22 Aug 2024

Making deliberate mistakes to enhance mastery and engagement

15 Aug 2024

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal factors in problem-solving

25 Jul 2024

Four Dimensions of Learning

1 Feb 2024

2023

More is lost through indecision

14 Sep 2023

Webinar: Engaging Men in Therapy - What the Literature Says

23 Jun 2023

Upcoming new book: Good to Know

15 Jun 2023

Selling an outcome versus selling a process

11 May 2023

2022

Three stages to mastery

15 Sep 2022

Two modes of working

11 May 2022

Myst: thoughts on a revolution

27 Jan 2022

Accessible and usable knowledge

21 Jan 2022

2021

My Zettelkasten KMS input and output

2 Dec 2021

Zettelkasten note taking

11 Nov 2021

Wordcloud of 2,174 blog posts

3 Jun 2021

Design Thinking over 15 years

21 May 2021

Reducing the emotional attachment load in problems

6 May 2021

Quality: Knowing when to stop

28 Jan 2021

The permission to do less

7 Jan 2021

2020

Happy Congratulations and Merry Christmas

12 Nov 2020

Blame in problem-solving

2 Apr 2020

Situational promotions

21 Mar 2020

Criticism is not (always) insult

5 Mar 2020

Psychological safety in Agile

27 Feb 2020

2019

Linear vs bubble working styles

12 Sep 2019

Preparing for and responding to mistakes

6 Jun 2019

2018

Enduring works

20 Dec 2018

Problem peeling

6 Dec 2018

Anatomy of a problem

4 Dec 2018

A worker who dreams; a maker who sells

9 Aug 2018

Luck vs fate

26 Jul 2018

Perpetuated product UX fails

14 Jun 2018

Sacred Riana's greater whole

19 Apr 2018

From data to insights and strategy

29 Mar 2018

2017

Human- vs machine-centric content design

22 Aug 2017

What we pay attention to

18 Jul 2017

Seeing clearly and mastery

18 Apr 2017

Details details details

14 Mar 2017

2016

Four lessons in social manipulation from the 2016 US elections

29 Nov 2016

Five self-awareness lessons from the 2016 US elections

22 Nov 2016

A body of worth

1 Nov 2016

$500 census server

30 Aug 2016

Talent-Belief gap

23 Aug 2016

The unemployable skillset

2 Aug 2016

Anxiety blocks creativity

26 Jul 2016

Directly applied learning

19 Jul 2016

If you truly feared failure...

7 Jul 2016

Mechanistic Processes vs Guiding Principles

30 Jun 2016

Pragmatism an undervalued strength

15 Mar 2016

Watering sustainable behaviour change

3 Mar 2016

Optimal anxiety

9 Feb 2016

How to become more innovative

2 Feb 2016

2015

Scanners and divers

5 Nov 2015

Doing matters

1 Sep 2015

Diamond cutting: concentrate distil curate

18 Aug 2015

Idea banks and the need for curation

7 Aug 2015

Visualising De Waag

3 Aug 2015

Thoughts on a Matisse sketch

29 Jul 2015

Curating methodologies

22 Jul 2015

Lesson from Van Gogh 3

17 Jul 2015

Lesson from Van Gogh 2

16 Jul 2015

Lesson from Van Gogh 1

15 Jul 2015

Looking for the win-win

14 Jul 2015

The potential in tools

3 Jul 2015

Combining design thinking and applied psychology

29 Jun 2015

If it burns, stop touching it!

22 Jun 2015

Action-oriented mindset

19 Jun 2015

Movie soundtrack censorship fail

15 Jun 2015

Design + applied psychology: A hybrid problem solving process

11 Jun 2015

Avoiding suffering

21 May 2015

Helping people build loyalty

28 Apr 2015

Designing from where users are

23 Apr 2015

The discipline of simple

12 Mar 2015

Try on their shoes

27 Jan 2015

Visual reminders of the big picture

22 Jan 2015

Lifeline skills in consulting - Part IV

20 Jan 2015

Lifeline skills in consulting - Part III

15 Jan 2015

Lifeline skills in consulting - Part II

13 Jan 2015

Lifeline skills in consulting - Part I

8 Jan 2015

2014

The Divine One

3 Dec 2014

Escaping the status quo

29 Oct 2014

Crafting our toolbox

27 Oct 2014

We get what we measure

20 Oct 2014

Excuses for not improving

6 Oct 2014

Convert Thinking to more Doing

24 Sep 2014

Two ways to use notes

22 Sep 2014

16 New Rules of Business

17 Sep 2014

Purposing

10 Sep 2014

Good design in plain sight

14 Aug 2014

The mastery-boredom cycle

30 Jul 2014

Banyan conflict tree

7 Jul 2014

Client-centred consulting

16 Jun 2014

Agile, change-embracing, accelerated projects

11 Jun 2014

Project management models: Agile, PRINCE2 and PMBOK

11 Jun 2014

Maintaining the experience

4 Jun 2014

Happy medium age!

19 May 2014

Change toolkit

28 Apr 2014

Solving non-problems

23 Apr 2014

The dark side of expertise

21 Apr 2014

Driving innovation vs driving chaos

14 Apr 2014

Feelings vs reality

31 Mar 2014

The changing nature of my work

10 Mar 2014

My kanban

19 Feb 2014

Square peg round hole

18 Feb 2014

Context, relevance and richness

27 Jan 2014

Confidence vs arrogance

22 Jan 2014

Judgement vs discernment

20 Jan 2014

Acceptance vs acquiescence

15 Jan 2014

Detachment and problem solving

13 Jan 2014

Goals vs habits

8 Jan 2014

2013

Death by deliberation

12 Nov 2013

Facts, emotions and crises

10 Nov 2013

Inspiration fatigue

30 Oct 2013

Work is serial monogamy

13 Oct 2013

Staying hungry

6 Oct 2013

Confusing methodology with outcomes

17 Sep 2013

Aging and problem focus

8 Sep 2013

Pattern recognition

28 Jul 2013

Three elements of a UX use-context

11 Jun 2013

UX/UI for internal vs public users

11 Jun 2013

Whole-heartedly; or go home

21 May 2013

User-centred design mindset

14 May 2013

Mettle and metal

12 May 2013

Design seesaw

30 Apr 2013

Resource feature: Three Elements of UX Use Context

19 Mar 2013

2012

Sing from your heart

20 Nov 2012

Double spaces and double linebreaks

4 Nov 2012

Evaluating design

8 Oct 2012

Creativity and useless feedback

28 Aug 2012

Spot and stop mistakes

27 Aug 2012

Businesses don’t care. Individuals do.

8 Jul 2012

Strategy formulation framework

11 Jun 2012

What is Strategic Design?

11 Jun 2012

Re-thinking Cheap Fast Good - a much better diagram

24 Apr 2012

Avoiding the “guru” syndrome

21 Feb 2012

Re-thinking Cheap Fast Good

6 Feb 2012

2011

Effective brainstorming [e-learning]

11 Jun 2011

Experts, generalists and deep generalists

13 Feb 2011

Innovation and operations model

7 Feb 2011

2010

The Desktop Epic Revolution

6 Sep 2010

Clueless and care-less – why corporations fail at humanity, and thus will never be innovative

1 Sep 2010

I am satisfied

17 Jun 2010

Design Thinking

11 Jun 2010

Learning to play again

11 Jun 2010

Obstacles to generating ideas

11 Jun 2010

A Problem-solving checklist

11 Jun 2010

Clarity in Design Thinking and Agile

11 Jun 2010

Business process design primer

11 Jun 2010

Rules

17 May 2010

Wabi sabi

5 May 2010

Knowing enough to break the rules

14 Apr 2010

Invisible excellence – Tokyo pavement

23 Feb 2010

2009

Keyboard heaven – cheapest is not best

4 Nov 2009

Excellence sweet spot

27 Oct 2009

Evolution process of companies

14 Oct 2009

Good and different

5 Oct 2009

Labour of love requires time

16 Aug 2009

The invisible man

4 Aug 2009

Pillar management

3 Aug 2009

Power is never given. Power is taken.

27 Jul 2009

Thanks for the cynicism check

7 May 2009

Silence is golden is innovation

22 Apr 2009

The rise of the small

15 Mar 2009

Paying for care

3 Mar 2009

Cultivating innovation Alessi style

24 Feb 2009

Outliers

15 Jan 2009

2008

Love keeps businesses excelling

11 Dec 2008

Visual thinking and napkins

27 Nov 2008

Valuing ideas vs “real work”

25 Nov 2008

A Poverty of Desire

23 Nov 2008

“It’ll do.”

30 Oct 2008

Habituation hides quality failures

14 Oct 2008

Stupid design – two ludicrous examples

13 Oct 2008

The cost of video piracy to quality

12 Oct 2008

Love attracts

29 Sep 2008

Organic business (aka be yourself)

25 Sep 2008

Five gamification techniques for business

11 Jun 2008

Seeing the leaves as well as the forest

28 May 2008

McDonalds website – experience over usefulness

10 Mar 2008

This is dedication (to one’s craft)

9 Jan 2008

2007

What should I do with my life?

23 Nov 2007

Choose

14 Nov 2007

Being, flow, and not pushing

12 Jul 2007

Easy to use means hard to make

12 Jul 2007

The Cluetrain Manifesto

5 Apr 2007

2006

Be a kid again

13 Dec 2006

Advantages of a value net

29 Nov 2006

Cubicle Commando

25 Sep 2006

Choosing input

6 Sep 2006

Keeping score vs satisfaction

10 Aug 2006

Happiness drive

23 Jul 2006

New beginnings

18 Jul 2006

Innovation is...

11 Jun 2006

Invention vs Innovation vs Improvement

11 Jun 2006

Working with your “faults”

20 Feb 2006

Butterflies or blowflies?

20 Jan 2006

Your beautiful dream

15 Jan 2006

Play is…

4 Jan 2006

2005

Harping on about excellence? Have you done Step 1?

14 Aug 2005

Good, fast and cheap

28 Jun 2005

Design effective signs and posters

12 Jun 2005

Using colour in business communications

11 Jun 2005

A slapping for AFR BOSS

4 May 2005

Best practice = same practice

22 Mar 2005

Your future competition

27 Feb 2005

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