Leland Maschmeyer on Negotiations and Hallucinations

I first met Leland when he was giving a talk at SVA’s Design Criticism Program back in 2010 and he referenced “Finite and Infinite Games” by James Carse...I knew, right then and there, that we had to be friends!

Lee is the Chief Creative officer at a food company which will not be named (for reasons...but linked here), which Fast Company rated in the top 10 most innovative companies in the world. When I met him, he was one of the Founders of Collins, an agency that Forbes tapped in 2016 as an agency defining the future of brand building.

We had a wide ranging conversation where we tried to find a theory of change: can you only harness trends and follow patterns, or can you create the future? We also discuss how companies need to digest chaos and turn it into Creativity and Action through balancing volume of ideas captured, velocity of ideas turned into opportunities and maintaining a Variety of ideas in the mix. I hope you enjoy listening to Lee as much as i enjoy talking with him!

Links and Notes:

Eight Flavors, by Sarah Lohman
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/nyregion/sarah-lohman-four-pounds-flour.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/505751272/eight-flavors-the-untold-story-of-american-cuisine

Innovation through features vs The Jobs to be Done Framework
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjcx87JmhvM

Finite and Infinite Games
https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1476731713

IxD17 Users versus Owners (video not posted yet!)
http://interaction17.ixda.org/session/chelsea-mauldin-keynote-tbd/

Sketch notes at https://twitter.com/dastillman/status/839189078352486400

Reinventing Instagram:
http://www.recode.net/2017/1/23/14205686/instagram-product-launch-feature-kevin-systrom-weil


Harvard Negotiation Project and classes

http://www.pon.harvard.edu/category/research_projects/harvard-negotiation-project/

Other book mentioned:

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended-ebook/dp/B014DUR7L2

On Improv:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_(improvisation)

Rejection vs Acceptance vs. Creation
https://www.amazon.com/Harold-Purple-Crayon-Books/dp/0064430227
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wild-Things-Maurice-Sendak/dp/0060254920

On VUCA:

https://hbr.org/2014/01/what-vuca-really-means-for-you

On cherry blossoms and cradle-to-cradle-design

https://www.ted.com/talks/william_mcdonough_on_cradle_to_cradle_design


My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
- TOM STOPPARD , ENGLISH DRAMATIST
 

Abby Covert on Collaboration and Listening

This episode was fun! I love Abby Covert, she’s a delight to talk with. It was interesting editing this episode because I could see it was more of a *conversation* than an *interview*...as opposed to episode one with Phil McKenzie, just from the waveforms.
Abby is an Information Architecture rock star, and you’ll learn more about her inside the episode.
We talk about How much my mother loves her book “How to make sense of any mess”, how to really plan research to reduce bias and how to hold the space for problem framing versus problem solving.

Visit her at http://abbytheia.com/ and check out her book http://www.howtomakesenseofanymess.com/

Philip McKenzie on Authenticity and Impermanence

My Guest today is Philip McKenzie, the co-host of 2 Dope Boys and a Podcast, a biweeekly podcast on trends and cultural insight. Philip is best described as a polymath.He’s a former Domestic Equity Trader for Goldman Sachs and He is a writer, rabid music fan and…. an accomplished DJ

Today We talk about Consistency and Authenticity in Conversations between brands and the fans they seek to connect with, how companies need focus on long-term thinking, not short term gains and on growth as a false model for our times.

Phillip’s Podcast can be found at:
http://www.twodopeboyspod.com/philip-mckenzie/

A critique of mindfulness:
http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/the-pbg-and-the-false-promise-of-mindfulness/

On rethinking everything currently made by Ursula Le Guin:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/20/ursula-k-le-guin-national-book_n_6188922.html

Timestamp where it gets interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk&t=4m0s