Little house on the Chinese prairie: Have midwestern values moved to Beijing?

11 October 2009
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China’s Tencent. The world’s biggest social media network you’ve never heard of.

7 October 2009
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Capturing a sweet street in Beijing.

5 October 2009
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When you evaluate hotels for a living, what do you do on holiday?

4 October 2009
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Olympic strength of the Americas.

3 October 2009

When the city representing your country is rejected, it’s easy to view the decision of the International Olympic Committee in personal terms.  But maybe the IOC decision for Rio has nothing personal at all to do with Chicago or the United States or Barack Obama. A decision strengthening both Americas shows that the Olympic Movement […]

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A regrettable design decision at Yale.

1 October 2009
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As an IBM alumnus, I am inspired by the role of designer Paul Rand in shaping the identity of the company. Rand designed the blocky IBM logo in 1956 and the striped 8-bar and 13-bar versions in the early 1970s. He also designed logos for ABC, Westinghouse, Cummins Engine and others. News this week that Yale […]

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The quiet diplomacy of the Chinese restaurant.

30 September 2009
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Election advice from a medieval Italian painter.

28 September 2009
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Chicago, Rio gear up for Friday’s Olympic 2016 decision.

27 September 2009

At 6:30 pm Friday 2 October in Copenhagen (12:30 pm eastern USA), the International Olympic Committee announces which of four cities will host the 2016 Olympic Games: Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo.  Brazilian leaders quoted Sunday in The New York Times say an IOC decision in favor of Rio would validate Brazil on […]

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Problems: linear to wicked.

26 September 2009

From a Fast Company magazine cover profile on Coca-Cola design vice president David Butler, October 2009 — A run-in with Peter Senge’s book “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization” changed the way Butler thought about design. He saw how systems thinking could be applied in a more holistic way. In the […]

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