The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

• Twelve Resolutions on How to Be a Mensch : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum

  Article by Bruna Martinuzzi, author of “The Leader as a Mensch: Become the Kind of Person Others Want to Follow ”
  Some great ideas here:
  1. Give people gifts other than those that you buy.
  2. Become a talent hunter.
  3. Become a talent hunter.
  4. Spend more time in the “beginner’s mind.”
  5. Don’t tell people what they can’t do.
  6. Minimize the space you take up.
  7. Become a relationship anthropologist.
  8. Be happy for others.
  9. Get rid of grudges.
  10. Help others caress the rainbow.
  11. Make people feel better about themselves.
  12. View all promises you made in 2009 as an unpaid debt.

  tags: bruna_martinuzzi, mensch, advice, wisdom

• Tim Brown urges designers to think big | Video on TED.com

  TED talk by Tim Brown: “says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects – even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory ‘design thinking.'”

  tags: ted_conference, tim_brown, design_thinking

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