Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
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As designers, it is our responsibility to explore the discomfort zone, design holistically, and consider the full range of possibilities of what we create.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
While many leaders say they welcome dissent, their reactions often change when they actually get some. They may feel defensive. They may question their own judgment. They may resent having to take time to revisit the decision-making process. These are natural responses.
Into all problem-solving, a little dissent must fall
We need to shift some discussions to be asynchronous—not real-time—to remove the pressure that synchronous or in-person work can cause.
How Asynchronous Work Helps You Leverage Your Team’s Diversity
In the aftershocks of this pandemic’s ever-shifting “new normals”, let us make sure we create space for new and better patterns of life to emerge
Urban Empathy: The Next Big Shift
On the latest episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Irving Fain, founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him come up with new ideas.
These smart farms are 100 times more productive than traditional agriculture
It might be prudent, they say, to redirect some resources we use to feed livestock, such as cereal crops and fish suitable for human consumption, back into our food supply pool. The team believes those animals could instead chow down on certain food byproducts humans would typically throw away. Things like sugar beet, citrus pulp and crop residues.... See more
Scientists Say We Could Feed 1 Billion More People With One Change to the Global Food System
Research published in Scientific Reports suggests how you perceive the passage of time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb. When you're young, so many things seem new, and your brain has more to process. That makes the passage of time feel longer; as you get older, relatively little seems new, which means your brain... See more
Want to Feel You're Living a Longer, Fuller Life? Neuroscience Says Making Denser Memories Is the Best Way to Slow the Passage of Time
Both public and private failures bring their own problems and their own kinds of pain. But private failure is unique in that it often depends on your own, unseen reserves of resilience and fortitude. It is a kind of test between yourself and yourself, with yourself as the judge. And so, it’s easy to cheat. It’s easy to give up and claim it as a... See more