Alexandra Smith
@alexandraleighs
journalist. design thinker. strategist.
Alexandra Smith
Articulate the ideas that capture your imagination. ✨
Synthesis as art:
- “First of all, synthesizing involves artistry . To create a work or treatment of significant size and to convey it effectively to others requires a sense of form, of arrangement of parts, of the attention and predilection of audiences, of launching, development, and closure . All of these skills are identified particularly with th
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
Ideas follow inspiration, which comes freely at a friendly intersection of diverse multidisciplinary, multi-industry, multicultural thinking – exactly the kind of thinking that our focused lives tend not to have enough of.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Inspiration + Strategy + Operations = Innovative practice
I had a conversation a few days ago with one of the most rockstar women I know.
She said: “I don’t want to lead my own thing. I want to be a first follower who passionately supports a mission I care about, and enables teams to do their best work.”
Her level of awareness and conviction has l... See more
elle ✨x.comGeneralists are important at observing everything and seeking out a particular something that is most relevant for specialists to pursue. A generalist is a divergent thinker who is in touch with a large realm of possibilities.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Innovation begins with inspiration. Positive visions of the future inject people with imagination, which pulls the future forward.