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Coworking is a commodity. It is a race to the bottom.
I read “A case against ‘free trial coworking‘” by Alex Hillman from IndyHall and it reminded why I can’t relate to the coworking movement. I purposefully use the word collaborative workspace when talking about Gangplank because implying that there is [...]
Posted in Gangplank
Tagged chandler, Community, Gangplank, innovation, motivation, phoenix, theory
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Failure Does Not Equal Humiliation
CEO of Local Motors John Rogers said “We make you feel wanted and we make you feel knowledgeable.” today while talking about how they treat their customers. James Archer brought up “On making people feel knowledgeable, I’ve often wondered about [...]
The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona
Getting ready for the 96th Arizona Town Hall, I am reading their report Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness. It references a 1999 paper from the Morrison Institute The New Economy: A Guide for Arizona. It lists eight principles [...]
Posted in AZ, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, creatives, economic development, Education, excellence, Gangplank, innovation, new economy, planning, policy, politics, sun corridor
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Arizona Economic Development Can’t Seem To Get It Right
It looks like Arizona Legislature is trying to get business friendly. I applaud that they are trying to do something. I just think they don’t get it. Why is this state hell bent on simply attracting a multi-billion dollar manufacturing/production [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Startups
Tagged arizona, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, politics
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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. My good friend Francine Hardaway brought a Hugh Macleod print in. I went to [...]
Posted in Creativity, Gangplank, Personal
Tagged art, gapingvoid, hugh mcleod, inspiration, philosophy
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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 AgileOpenNorthwest we were talking about Agile software development and started to talk about Where Are Your Keys. [...]
Posted in Agile, Education, Gangplank, Integrum, Personal
Tagged Education, Gangplank, innovation, Integrum, Productivity
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CenPhoCamp Presentation
I got the honor of presenting at CenPhoCamp recently and really enjoyed it. I have lots of thoughts on the subject, but am too busy doing to talk about them. Good problem to have I suppose. Here are my slides [...]
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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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 sounded like something that might fit nicely with Gangplank Jr, so I decided to take a look.
From [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Gangplank
Tagged bureaucracy, curriculum, entrepreneurship, gangplankjr, ntfe, twitter
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