Daniel H. Pink's Blog, page 37
May 26, 2009
Quote of the day: Entrepreneurs’ own rewards
“An economy that is more entrepreneurial, less managerial, would be less subject to the kind of distortions that occur when corporate managers’ compensation is tied to the short-term profit of distant shareholders. For most entrepreneurs, profit is at once a more capacious and a more concrete thing than this. It is a calculation in which the intrinsic satisfactions of work count.”
– Matthew B. Crawford, “The Case for Working With Your Hands“
(NYT Magazine, 5.24.09)
May 25, 2009
Emotionally intelligent trash can signage
Jennifer Caleshu, Director of Communications of the fantastic Bay Area Discovery Museum, sends this terrific example of emotionally intelligent signage from the trash cans at the new California Academy of Sciences.
Notice how the third sign really makes you stop, think, empathize, and (probably) change your behavior.
May 21, 2009
May 19, 2009
Johnny Bunko Lesson One: Google it
Johnny Bunko continues to be the unknown muse of 2009 commencement speakers. Here’s Google CEO Eric Schmidt echoing Bunko Lesson One:
“Don’t bother to have a plan at all. All that stuff about having a plan, throw that out.”
(HT: Drew Weilage, via Jeff Jarvis)
Telling stories in new ways
Did Tomas Nilson just tell the entire Little Red Riding Hood story using nothing but infographics?
You’re damn right he did. Just watch below.
(via Flowing Data)
May 18, 2009
Factoid of the day: No $$$, no zzzzz
A five-country survey, commissioned by Philips and reported in today’s Financial Times finds that the recession exacting another price: Lost zzzz’s.
“The average manager is sleeping 19 percent less than the recommended eight hours a night.”
“Some 40 percent of those questioned blame the state of the global economy for their insomnia.” [What do the other 60 percent blame? Indigestion? The dog? Dick Cheney? — Ed:]
“Americans are more likely than other nationalities to lose sleep through stress at
May 16, 2009
Obama at ASU: great stuff
That President of ours sure can give a good speech. Check out this clip from this commencement address at Arizona State University.
My hunch is that Johnny Bunko wasn’t on the desk of his speechwriters, but Obama nonetheless touches on several Bunko lessons — from “Leave an imprint” to “Make excellent mistakes” to Reader Lesson 7: “Stay hungry.”
May 11, 2009
May 8, 2009
Emotionally intelligent signage: Who wants to help?
Emotionally intelligent signage won’t change the world in an end-world-hunger/solve-the-climate-crisis/bring-genocidal-dictators-to-justice sort way. But I do think it can make people’s lives a little bit better.
And since we’ve turned this site into something of a clearinghouse for this idea, folks have started to ask for (your) help. Case in point: Lesley, on behalf of an Ontario university, writes:
“I would love to know if you or any of your readers have come across any emotionally intelligent
