Everything is a Copy of a Copy Human progress moves incrementally. The ancient Greeks carved vertical flutings into their marble columns, a technique borrowed from older times when columns were made from wood, to hide joints and imperfections. Neoclassical architecture copied the pattern of fluted marble into concrete. The materials improved, but the design stayed […]
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The Future of Coaching
In 2002, Danny Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking work on the psychology of judgement and decision making. Along with Amos Tversky, his long-time collaborator, Kahneman uncovered systematic shortcuts in how the human mind works that often turn out to be wrong. They labeled these systematic biases “heuristics”, and described […]
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The Emotion Economy
In their seminal Harvard Business Review essay Welcome to the Experience Economy, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore made the argument that experiences are a unique economic offering, as distinct from products and services. They present a model of The Progression of Economic Value : beginning with commodity extraction, to product manufacture, to delivering services, and […]
The Labyrinth 