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How you think is how you lead
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · Topics: command-and-control, leadership-development, leadership-styles, team-development
From Roger Schwarz: You’re probably undermining what you are trying to accomplish with your team – and you don’t know it. · Go to How you think is how you lead →
How unilateral control undermines team results and relationships
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · Topics: command-and-control, leadership-development, leadership-styles, team-development
From Roger Schwarz: If your leadership team isn’t getting the results it needs, the cause may be your (and your team’s) mindset. Mindset is the set of core values and assumptions from which you operate. It is your way of seeing that shapes your thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
The research and my more than thirty years working with leaders and their teams reveal that in even moderately challenging situations virtually all leaders use a mindset that undermines team results—what I call a “unilateral control” mindset. When you use a unilateral control mindset, you try to achieve your goals by controlling the situation. You try to influence others to do what you want them to do while not being influenced by others. When you’re working with people who see things differently from you, the essence of your mindset is simple: I understand the situation, you don’t; I’m right, you’re wrong; I will win. · Go to How unilateral control undermines team results and relationships →
How to help a real-life knight achieve his goals
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · Topics: brand-strategy, customer-experience, design, design-process
From Will Dayble at Smashing Magazine: This article is about design consultancy. It’s about wrangling that client who uses empty sentences like, “We want a snappy, simple experience,” or, “It should be on brand and should really pop.” It’s about commanding the room and setting a vision before moving on to wireframes and pixels. · Go to How to help a real-life knight achieve his goals →
Faile art series at New York City Ballet
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 · Topics: art-and-music, arts-marketing, audience-development, creativity
From We Love Ad: NYCB Art Series commissions contemporary artists to create original works of art inspired by our unique energy, spectacular dancers, and one-of-a-kind repertory of ballets. New York City Ballet has worked with leading and emerging artists throughout the Company’s history — luminaries like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Julian Schnabel. We are proud to continue this tradition by partnering with Brooklyn-based artists FAILE for the inaugural year of Art Series.
Faile’s installation, Les Ballets De Faile, was created for the Art Series performances on Friday, February 1, and Wednesday, May 29. On these dates, every seat in the house is available for just $29, and each audience member will receive a limited-edition work made specifically for this event. · Go to Faile art series at New York City Ballet →
Evolve or transform? 17 brand factors
Monday, May 6, 2013 · Topics: brand-redesign, brand-strategy
From Branding Strategy Insider: No business these days can just sit pretty. But the extent and nature of changes confuses many. Brands evolve. Or die. But they must also retain something of what consumers know. Or they fade. So which is more important? And how should a brand act, when? · Go to Evolve or transform? 17 brand factors →
Rosetta Type Foundry
Monday, May 6, 2013 · Topics: type-foundries, typography
Rosetta is a publisher and distributor of high-quality fonts for a growing number of the world’s writing systems. So far our library supports pan-European Latin, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Indic scripts like Gujarati and Devanagari, and Cyrillic (besides Slavic languages we also support many Asian languages). In total, our library covers 172 languages. The released fonts are of top-notch quality, and have won numerous design awards. They not only support the writing systems individually, but also make them work well together, making the life of any designer dealing with multiple scripts much easier. · Go to Rosetta Type Foundry →
Graphic Arrays, a collage by Aram Bartholl
Monday, May 6, 2013 · Topics: ipad-design, iphone-design, responsive-design, web-design
Graphic Arrays (2013) is about screen resolutions and aspect ratios and how these evolved over the laste decades. The left board is dedicated to more recent mobile vertical resolution ending at iPad retina. The right board represents the long history of desktop screen pixel sizes starting with the classic VGA (640×480) IBM standard from 1987 till todays common 2560×1600 desktop monsters. It’s also fun to look up the top screen resolutions of Internet users for each year screenresolution.org, sometimes even sorted by country (which it was up to date). My first screen ever was a PAL 576×768 on a C64. Currently I am looking at 2560×1440 vastness. Of course the DPI(PPI) has increased immensely over the years, especially with all the mobile screens recently. It feels weird to look at a 5:4 SXGA screen (1280×1024, my favorite!) today, almost portrait ration?!? At the same time when you cut a piece of paper in 16:9 format it looks super horizontal but we look at that ratio all day! · Go to Graphic Arrays, a collage by Aram Bartholl →
How much has the web really changed?
Monday, May 6, 2013 · Topics: responsive-design, web-design
From Smashing Magazine: Responsive design is about more than just layout; it’s about designing for the Web, which means, mostly, for people with browsers. And that’s just about everything we know about the people who visit our websites: they are probably using a browser. All the rest we just don’t know. · Go to How much has the web really changed? →
