Musings From The Designer
I am an infrequent blogger — but when I do write, I like to write about:
- trends in technology as they relate to design
- film, theater and literary culture
- spirituality and psychology
- poetry
In other words — this blog is lacking a brand. You've been duly warned. 🙂
“Everything is designed. Intelligent response to life — emotional, spiritual and intellectual — begets intelligent business and organizational strategy. There are a myriad of technologies at our disposal for creative response. Continuous learning is our privilege; our obligation.”
The Enneagram and Business
Use of personality assessments are helpful tools in the workplace. They are regularly used by recruiters, hiring managers and human resource departments and include The Caliper Profile, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The Enneagram is likely one of the most mature assessments, providing cursory psychological information to…
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Mindfulness and Business
Is the 2500-year-old spiritual technology called Mindfulness pertinent to business today? Mindfulness—simply defined as present moment awareness—is popping up in workplaces for a very good reason. We live and work in what the Harvard Business Review calls the “attention economy.” The ability to maintain focus and concentration has become every bit as important as technical…
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Gutenberg — Quantum Leap for WordPress
WordPress.org pushed out a release of a new core software version to version 5.0.1 in December 2018. This update includes a new user experience for the content area which is a marked change — the long awaited and much maligned “Gutenberg.” For those who are using their WordPress dashboard prolifically the change will best be implemented…
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