Tag Archives: motivation

5 Steps to Achieving Great Things

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

If you want to achieve really big things. The kinds of things that people believe to be difficult, improbable or even impossible. It will require passion, purpose, planning and the ability to execute actions. To accomplish them you [...]

Posted in Productivity | Tagged excellence, innovation, motivation, Productivity, theory | 2 Comments

Political Bites: Lessons from September 11th

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

What most lasting lesson should Southeast Valley residents take from the events of Sept. 11, 2001?
The lesson we can all learn is that a community united is capable of tremendous things. The human spirit is caring and compassionate and extremely [...]

Posted in Political Bites | Tagged Community, motivation, september 11th, theory | 1 Comment

If You Play the Numbers Game, You Will Always Lose When Trying to Change the World

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Why do we focus so much on attendance numbers when trying to make change? The truth is that numbers can deceive us and give us a false sense of progress. Let me give you an example.
Recently and event was held [...]

Posted in Community | Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, excellence, motivation | 3 Comments

You Can’t Do Collaboration Without Being a Collaborator

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

In various software development circles I hear the phrase “You can’t do Agile, you have to be Agile”. This makes sense to me so never thought much about it. However, when asked about Gangplank and describing it we choose say [...]

Posted in Agile, Gangplank | Tagged Agile, Gangplank, motivation | 6 Comments

The Future, It’s About People..

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

We have been talking about concepts in software development for the last few years at Integrum getting back to humanity. That the separation of goals and values between developers, product owners and users is out of control. We have executed [...]

Posted in Community, Creativity | Tagged Community, Creativity, Gangplank, Integrum, motivation, theory | 1 Comment

What is the Motivation of Making Gangplank Free?

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

A common question is “How does Gangplank work? Why is everything free?”. The common theory is that if you don’t charge people something they won’t see any value in it. Maybe if they are working on an assembly line, but [...]

Posted in Creativity, Productivity | Tagged creative class, creatives, excellence, incentives, motivation, theory | 1 Comment

SBR: Linchpin by Seth Godin

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Seth is back. He really gets it right on this one. This is an excellent book to pair with Richard Florida’s Reset. The world and they [...]

Posted in Creativity, Sunday Book Review | Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, discipline, economic development, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, reading | Comments Off

The World is Changing and so is our Economy

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

We might be in the midst of a recession, but I don’t think we have seen anything yet. Most of America is not willing to acknowledge a few key concepts.
1. Things won’t bounce back to where they were, expect recovery [...]

Posted in Community, Education, Personal | Tagged chandler, Community, creatives, Creativity, decay, detroit, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, recession, theory, urban decay | 4 Comments

Coworking is a commodity. It is a race to the bottom.

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Derek Neighbors

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 [...]