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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Sunday Book Review: The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Completely decadent and way better written than expected. Why did I wait so [...]
Posted in Personal, Sunday Book Review
Tagged business, confessions, Creativity, decadence, excellence, innovation, motivation, motley crue, music, reading, relationships
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Land Developers Make Bad Politicians
This post started titled.. “Queen Creek Go Fuck Yourself”. That’s right. I said it. There is a time and place for all things. Putting the self interest of the oldest families at the center of running a city is just [...]
Shop Local vs Shop Local Get the Picture?
Arizona is definitely in a financial crisis and as part of that there has been a lot about shopping locally. This is seen as a primary way to help stimulate the local economy. I have noticed that many metro area [...]
Posted in Community, Personal
Tagged arizona, Community, economic development, shop local, taxes
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Sunday Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Building Teams and Leading them is very simple, but very difficult. Reminds me [...]
Posted in Agile, Personal, Productivity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged discipline, dysFUNctional, excellence, incentives, leadership, motivation, politics, Productivity, reading, teams, teamwork, theory
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Freedom In Being Focused
As mentioned on the Gangplank blog “What Exactly Is Gangplank?“, we recently went through the exercise of answering that question. It seems stupid. It seems simple. It may even seem worthless. The truth is that it was liberating. Carrying a [...]
Encouraging Institutional Innovation By Changing How We Educate
John Hagel’s Edge Perspectives has an excellent article on challenging mindsets from reverse innovation to innovation blowback. It reinforces our mindset in why we are passionate about how Gangplank is structured and why concepts brought out in Gangplank Jr [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Gangplank
Tagged challenge, economic development, economy, Education, Gangplank, innovation, manifesto, mindset, Productivity
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Chandler Mardi Gras Event
Downtown Chandler will be transformed into the “Big Easy” for one magical night on Saturday Feb. 6, as the Downtown Chandler Community Foundation hosts its first Mardi Gras Festival.
The event will include a parade, street festival, strolling musicians, costume contest [...]
Posted in Chandler, Personal
Tagged chandler, di sciacca, downtown, gambling, mardis gras, music, party, san marcos
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Sunday Book Review: This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: This book spent a lot of time about the technical aspects of music and [...]
Sunday Review: The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands.
Take Away: Strong networks of smart people can change the world. Those that change the [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Sunday Book Review
Tagged Creativity, discipline, innovation, politics, reading
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Live Music in Downtown Chandler
One of the things we were hoping would happen in moving Gangplank to downtown Chandler and getting the recording studio setup was more live music. The great news is that the process is already well under way. Every weekend you [...]
