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I love art. Hugh Macleod’s Wolf vs Sheep.

I don't know shit about art.  Really.  I know what moves me though.  I know what connects with me emotionally.  I know what draws my attention. 

Creativity, Gangplank, Personal

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Oblivious To The Things You Do

Sometimes when you are in the heat of doing things you become completely oblivious to how things are being perceived by others.  At AgileOpenNorthwes

Agile, Education, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal

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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.Â

Gangplank

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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 min

Creativity, Education, Gangplank

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Entrepreneurship Through Bureaucracy

Jose Diaz had posted on Twitter that NTFE was teaching entrepreneurship to youth and was disappointed that Phoenix didn't have an office.  This sound

Creativity, Education, Gangplank

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Thoughts on “What Matters Now?”

Several people pointed me to What Matters Now? (Download the PDF e-book version) arranged by Seth Godin.  I glanced over it and thought it looked int

Community, Creativity, Gangplank, Personal, Productivity, Startups

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Regional Ruby Conference in Phoenix, Arizona

There was a call for conference planning for a Regional Ruby Conference on the Ruby AZ meeting list recently.   It was at the request of fellow loca

Community, Gangplank, Integrum

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Startups and Mind Camps and Crowd Pitches. Oh My

It is clear to me that we are not in Kansas anymore.  I expected today to be full of amazing as more days than not seem to be that way of late around

Community, Gangplank, Integrum, Startups

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Helping Find the Money To Make It

I read the Phoenix Business Journal every week as part of keeping up with business here in Metro Phoenix. I was floored when I read "Finding the mone

Community, Gangplank, Integrum, Startups

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Creative Economy AZ (My Take)

Based on the Gangplank Futurespective, one thing I promised myself to investigate was Creative Economy AZ.  This is an initiative to raise 1/10th of

Creativity, Gangplank

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