By Mapache, on March 11th, 2012
 We are hard-wired to be people of community, it’s in our DNA. No amount of new-agey nonsense can change that. We also know that trust is most often built through shared experience. These truths weave together beautifully for the success of this publishing project our partnership has launched in Romania. . . . → Read More: Keeping work playful
By Mapache, on February 8th, 2012
 We will advance our cause more when we help others figure out where they want to go—and help them get there.
In building out the vital intersections between the way we construct our physical world and how those buildings, those structures influence the way we treat each other, books can serve a . . . → Read More: A New View of Wayfinding
By Mapache, on January 17th, 2012
Penny wise, pound foolish has rarely had so direct a demonstration.
Let’s say that you’re a director at a large food products company. Imagine the chaos that ensues when deep within the bowels of the organization, an HR troll FIRED your right arm, your executive secretary, your “Man Friday” while you were . . . → Read More: The Risks of Not Learning, Part I
By Mapache, on January 3rd, 2012
2012 is just starting and I’m snorting like a bull in a rodeo. MBA, Schmembeeaye.
One of my twitter friends highlighted a position recently posted at Stanford:
The SEED Case Writer is responsible for researching and writing new case studies and teaching notes related to entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in developing . . . → Read More: An Open Letter to the Stanford Selection Committee
By Mapache, on December 28th, 2011
 More advanced search and replace techniques for MS-Word
After a couple of weeks off for seasonal holiday, let’s round out the year with another example of advanced formatting searches. What would you do if you needed to change every occurrence of movement or direction (separate from content or dialog) in a 300 . . . → Read More: Solving Hard Problems: Software, Part III
By Mapache, on December 7th, 2011
Had a very close call yesterday: I almost ignored a Wall Street Journal request for interview!
Like most everyone you know, I get spammed daily. One of the tradecraft hazards of being in the risk mitigation field is the dichotomy of second guessing. I will not claim to solve the issue in . . . → Read More: Cultural Prejudice: When even the real doesn’t seem real
By Mapache, on November 29th, 2011
The Cascades aren’t just in Washington State these days
This week we’ll switch from search strategies in off-line documents to a couple of web nuances that you can actually see in last week’s post.
In the aftermath of the Turkey Feast we in the US call Thanksgiving, a tweet sent . . . → Read More: Solving Hard Problems: Software, Part II
By Mapache, on November 22nd, 2011
Advanced search and replace techniques for MS-Word
If you needed to to reformat your text to find every title that was in all caps, longer than three characters and add an additional line (carriage return), how would you do it?
Having spent the better part of the year on technology and . . . → Read More: Solving Hard Problems: Software, Part I
By Mapache, on November 15th, 2011
 IMAGINE
if the One World Scheme anarchists (which some call Occupy Wall Street, OWS) had developed a coherent set of beliefs and a community-oriented strategy.
IMAGINE
if they had respectfully approached neighboring homeowners and businesses with a well-though-out and well-articulated proposition (run with me here):
We would . . . → Read More: O.c.c.u.p.y Hearts & Minds
By Mapache, on November 8th, 2011
In last week’s post, I opened with the idea that those stuck as permanent teenagers have trouble distinguishing such basic concepts as right and wrong. Moreover, they reject the concept of objective truth, because they realize that any objective truth binds them to the discipline of growing, however slowly, even imperceptibly, toward . . . → Read More: In-difference II: Organically Deriving y.o.u.r. Path to Profit
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A walk in the forest… Systems Thinking teaches us how to scale our perspective to study the forest or the trees, while Systems Engineering tells us what to do with the data we find.
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