Making Conversation

Making Conversation
Author: Fred Dust
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0062933914

A former Senior Partner and Global Managing Director at the legendary design firm IDEO shows how to design conversations and meetings that are creative and impactful. Conversations are one of the most fundamental means of communicating we have as humans. At their best, conversations are unconstrained, authentic and open—two or more people sharing thoughts and ideas in a way that bridges our individual experiences, achieves a common goal. At their worst, they foster misunderstanding, frustration and obscure our real intentions. How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful. Making Conversation codifies what he learned and outlines the seven elements essential to successful exchanges: Commitment, Creative Listening, Clarity, Context, Constraints, Change, and Create. Taken together, these seven elements form a set of resources anyone can use to be more deliberate and purposeful in making conversations work.

I See Something Special In You

I See Something Special In You
Author: Timo Kiuru
Publisher: Word Audio Publishing
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2022-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9180541313

What drives creativity in the world’s most innovative companies such as Google, Nike, Apple and Microsoft? How is creativity and talent harnessed to lead these global businesses? Timo Kiuru, an internationally recognized creative director and public speaker, ventured on a mission to discover the answers to these questions. Timo reached out to numerous innovation experts with decades of experience in leading creative teams and companies, and asked them to share their stories. He captured their valuable insights and advice for this book. What turned out to be the common thread in all the conversations was their ability to see that something special in a person. It became clear that the essence of leadership is in the skill to nurture people’s individual growth. This book is about more than business: it’s about the experiences that make us who we are, the challenges that bring out the best in us. It helps us to see the connections between raw talent, creativity and business leadership. Because that’s how we turn potential into superpower. Timo Kiuru is a global creative director on a mission to change how creativity is seen in business. He travels the world to speak to professional audiences about innovation, leadership and change and writes books about creativity. Timo was recognized with the global 40 Under 40 industry award in Texas in 2016 and Speaker of the Year honorary award in 2019 in Helsinki. With this book, he wants to inspire people to seek more specialness everywhere. Don’t dance like no one is watching – dance how you want to, even if everyone is watching. Audiobook and e-book: © Laine Publishing & Word Audio Publishing

Think Like An Architect

Think Like An Architect
Author: Randy Deutsch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-10-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 100022192X

Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers. Architects have a valuable and critical set of multiple thinking types that they develop throughout the design process. In this book, Randy Deutsch shows readers how to access those thinking types and use them outside pure design thinking – showing how they can both solve problems but also identify the problems that need solving. To think the way the best architects do. With a clear, driving narrative, peppered with anecdote, stories and real-life scenarios, this book will future-proof the architectural student. Change is coming in the architecture profession, and this is a much-needed exploration of the critical thinking skills that architects have in abundance, but that are not taught well enough within architecture schools. These skills are crucial in being able to respond agilely to a future that nobody is quite sure of.

Priyanka Chopra: The Dark Horse

Priyanka Chopra: The Dark Horse
Author: Bharathi S. Pradhan
Publisher: Om Books International
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9352766253

Every time the odds were stacked against her, she beat them to keep emerging the winner. Turning every adversity into an adventure of triumph, Priyanka Chopra made her own rules, set a template for success. The riveting inside story of a consistent winner, narrated by the best names in show business, The Dark Horse goes backstage to see how some of her finest works were filmed. And how an unknown girl from Bareilly went on to put India on the global entertainment map. Her life is a Master Class in Winning. A stimulating, compelling read by best-selling author Bharathi S Pradhan.

The Multiplayer Classroom

The Multiplayer Classroom
Author: Lee Sheldon
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000039005

Go beyond gamification’s badges and leaderboards with the new edition of the book, first published in 2011, that helped transform education. Going far beyond the first edition of The Multiplayer Classroom, forthrightly examining what worked and what didn’t over years of development, here are the tools to design any structured learning experience as a game to engage your students, raise their grades, and ensure their attendance. Suitable for use in the classroom or the boardroom, this book features a reader-friendly style that introduces game concepts and vocabulary in a logical way. Also included are case studies, both past and present, from others teaching in their own multiplayer classrooms around the world. You don't need any experience making games or even playing games to use this book. You don’t even need a computer. Yet, you will join many hundreds of educators who have learned how to create multiplayer games for any age on any subject. Lee Sheldon began his writing career in television as a writer-producer, eventually writing more than 200 shows ranging from Charlie’s Angels (writer) to Edge of Night (head writer) to Star Trek: The Next Generation (writer-producer). Having written and designed more than 40 commercial and applied video games, Lee spearheaded the first full writing for games concentration in North America at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the second writing concentration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he is now a professor of practice. Lee is a regular lecturer and consultant on game design and writing in the United States and abroad. His most recent commercial game, the award-winning The Lion’s Song, is currently on Steam.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0393348741

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside.

User-centered Design

User-centered Design
Author: Karel Vredenburg
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780130912954

User-Centered Design: An Integrated Approach will help you optimize your customers' total experience with any technology product or service - from purchase and installation through support, upgrades, and beyond. Karel Vredenburg, Scott Isensee, and Carol Righi, the field's leading experts, present methods, techniques, case studies, and CD-ROM-based tools for introducing, deploying, and optimizing UCD to make products that are simpler, more elegant, more powerful, and more profitable.

Atlanta Magazine

Atlanta Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007-10
Genre:
ISBN:

Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.