• The Golden Hour

    The Golden Hour

    “There is a golden hour between life and death. If you are critically injured you have less than 60 minutes to survive. You might not die right then; it may be three days or two weeks later, but...

  • Don’t Delay…Start Today

    Don’t Delay…Start Today

    The Shingo Prize (www.shingoprize.com) is a non-profit organization committed to the education, assessment, and recognition of organizations achieving operational excellence.  The process of applying...

  • Design from Within

    Design from Within

    “The extent to which you have a design style is the extent to which you have not solved the problem.” – Charles Eames Design That Matters is a non-profit company who faced a problem with global...

  • Creating Space for Change

    Creating Space for Change

    Welcome to the Grand Cafe in Oxford, England.  The Grand Cafe was one of the first coffee houses to open in England in 1650.  With the replacement of alcohol as the daytime drink of choice, the English...

  • Focus and Ambiguity

    Focus and Ambiguity

    A Chinese man created these structures on a beach using nothing other than the natural balance of the objects.  When asked how he did it, he responded “Well I guess with everything in life, there is...

  • Change is Not Linear

    Change is Not Linear

    In a 2009 TED talk on his theory of singularity, Ray Kurzweil used the example of the Human Genome Project (sequencing DNA) to explain the path and power of exponential growth.  Started in 1990, HGP...

  • The Problem with Most Visuals

    The Problem with Most Visuals

    After spending countless hours analyzing visual management boards in office and manufacturing environments, many fail to live up to the expectations we set for them and die a slow and painful death. Here...