December 22nd, 2010:
Building a Model for Successful Team Interaction
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. by César Rivera It was March last year when I moved to San Francisco from New York. Adjusting to this new and exciting city has been a roller [...]
December 22nd, 2010:
All Youth Required – Leading the Green Economy of Tomorrow
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Sandra Negron Green consumerism is an essential building block in the development of a green economy. Green consumers aren’t easily defined by their age, income or ethnicity. [...]
December 21st, 2010:
Bridging the Architectural Divide: Public Architecture
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Katherine R. Ganim Since its inception in ancient times, architecture has been a service provided to the wealthy and powerful. The poor have buildings; the rich have [...]
December 21st, 2010:
Strategic Conversations about Sustainability: Can Design Strategy Accelerate Change through Collaboration?
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Arne Salonen I am frustrated! It seems to me it is time certain questions are asked: After decades of shrill and dogmatic rhetoric, shouldn’t we have made [...]
December 20th, 2010:
The Tomato Struggle: Messaging Sustainability for Action
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Olivia Nava My background is in social justice and the arts, so you can imagine my excitement at finding an MBA program rooted in both sustainability AND [...]
December 17th, 2010:
Innovation and Sustainability: A Moment of Conscious Decision
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Laura Ramos Scene 1: “Which bin do I use?” A woman stands in front of three bins contemplating where to put her trash. Only trash isn’t just [...]
December 16th, 2010:
Boredom and The 3J’s: Jack, Jackson and Jesus
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Anthony Jagoda Speaking about Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock and Jesus Christ with my communications professor, I wondered afterwards what they had in common. Then I saw it: [...]
December 16th, 2010:
How Frito-Lay Can Take Their Compostable Packaging Failure Out of the Dumps
Can failed environmentally-friendly innovations, especially when at the hands of highly visible players, push the sustainability movement two steps back instead of two steps forward?
December 16th, 2010:
Reinventing the Same Old Stuff
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Ardy Sobhani The Café Racer motorcycle was born in England during the 1950s and 60s. Its roots formed through a counterculture of individuals who raced their motorcycles [...]
December 16th, 2010:
Evolving Cultures, Working Parents and Sustainability
Parents are now dual income earners, meaning that both parents work outside the home to provide a solid, consistent income for their families. Choices they make in their fast paced lives affect the choices of food and lifestyle that may not be sustainable for families and community as a whole.
December 16th, 2010:
Burnout: The Mental Stress Side of Sustainability
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Audrey Ma Tired? Irritable? Overworked? Dreading Monday mornings? You may be experiencing the modern phenomenon of job burnout. Mayo Clinic explains job burnout as “a special type [...]
December 15th, 2010:
How “Dignified Capitalism” Can Address Poverty Better than Charity
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Eric Persha Capitalism. Close your eyes and say it again… Capitalism. What images does the word evoke in your mind? For most of the developed world there [...]
December 12th, 2010:
Can Social Media Save Your Life?
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By John Intrater Facebook and Twitter. At this point, just about everyone has used one of these two applications in their life. However, the most significant feature isn’t [...]
December 10th, 2010:
Crafting Communication in Artisan Manufacturing
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Ewa Guzek Where do the conversations that shape the organization of artisan, or small-scale craft based manufacturing occur? They happen on the shop floor, around the potter’s [...]
December 9th, 2010:
The Unending Binge: How “Nutritional” Advertising Can Drive Sustainability
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. Oversimplified and Out of Touch, Current Advertising Lacks the ‘Nutritional Value’ Consumers Are Desperate For By Valerie Neumark When I think of “going on a binge” it usually [...]
December 5th, 2010:
Gasp! The Benefits Of Child Labor In The Developing World
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Lindsay Melnick: Child labor is a sensitive subject with a negative connotation in our society. While the topic of this article appears provocative, that is not my [...]
December 3rd, 2010:
La La Land: Will Los Angeles Ever Embrace Sustainability?
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Shrutee Dadhaniya, CCA dMBA As a born and raised Angelino, I can not express how many times I have been shocked and appalled at how uninterested my [...]
November 14th, 2010:
Stop Talking About Sustainability and Do Something!
This post is part of a year-end series by MBA students at California College of the Arts’ Design MBA Program. Read more about our annual partnership here. By Tyler Walseth Design Director at Addis Creson MBA, Design Strategy – (Class of 2012) at California College of The Arts Acknowledging A Persona: The Trash Maker I’ve [...]
January 20th, 2010:
The Power of Story in Sustainable Building
by Mike Funk As a child, one of my favorite nighttime stories was Virginia Lee Burton’s classic, The Little House. The book follows the life of a tiny house in the countryside that gradually gets swallowed up by an encroaching nearby city. All the things the little house loves about its life in the country-the [...]
January 19th, 2010:
Of Monkyspheres and Microhoods: Collective Urban Living for the 21st Century
by Kurt McCulloch When I was 18 years old, I voluntarily sequestered myself for nine-months on a narrow strip of rugged volcanic coastline on a tiny island in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. For almost a year, I worked, slept, ate, and socialized inside an area bounded by mountains and the sea. Everything [...]
January 19th, 2010:
Mind The Gap: The Space Where Design Strategists Live
By Ryan Opina “Great concepts and great vision are not enough to make an impact. Designers must recognize the challenges around implementation and deliver comprehensive prototypes with clear implementation plans.” -Tim Brown – Designing for Social Impact Grand visions of a breakthrough product. A service experience that will change the world. A video game that [...]
January 17th, 2010:
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Heart Shaped Country
By Amina Horozic You’re from where? I was almost twelve years old when I came to the US in 1994. Since then whenever I mention that I am from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am always inundated with all sorts of unusual questions. Occasionally, I have to clarify that it is a country in Southeastern Europe east [...]
January 16th, 2010:
Curriculum Vitae Verde – Practical Tips for Refreshing your Resume
By Lindsay Wolff Logsdon, Human Resources Manager, frog design With the Green Jobs Act now over two years old, and President Obama pledging that jobs in sustainable energy and resources will be a keystone of US economic recovery, the next frontier of the American job market is a very green place. Job seekers pushed out [...]
January 15th, 2010:
Design Involves More Than Thinking
By Jason Linder In 2008 CCA introduced an innovative new approach to the business degree—the MBA in Design Strategy. In 2009 CCA took this idea even further and began offering a dual-degree MFA/MBA. I am one of three students embarking on this hybrid journey. My curriculum integrates courses from the existing MFA in Design with [...]
January 14th, 2010:
Untying and Retying the Knot: Building a New Kind of Leadership
By Linda Chang & John Garvie Teach-Us-Something-in-7-Minutes is one of the keystone introductory projects of CCA’s DMBA program. The project, TUS-7M, as it came to be called, sets up students in pairs to develop a subject of compelling interest to be presented at a public event in CCA’s Timken Auditorium. The constraints were that we [...]
January 13th, 2010:
Project: Critique
By Elysa Soffer This is very NOT Good A tall, thin, blond woman in her mid-50s, with a thick Swiss-German accent condescends: “Class, come here, everyone, take a look. See this example on the wall? Does everyone see? This is very NOT good.” This was the voice of the typography and design studio teacher who [...]
January 11th, 2010:
Communication Tools and Seed Bombs
By Anna Acquistapace Feelings have never been a part of my past educational experience. We are taught to approach education as a purely intellectual endeavor that requires learning the material then proving you know it when exams come around. However, as we grow into adulthood through our school years, our emotional education develops unguided and [...]
January 10th, 2010:
The Working + Going to Graduate School + Being a Mother Manifesto
Dear (Corporate) World: We need to talk. We’re just not connecting. You haven’t changed over the years, but I have. I think we want the same things. But we’re not doing a very good job of listening to one another. I feel like we have different ideas regarding time and what it means to be [...]
January 8th, 2010:
Improvisation as a Communications Skill-Set: Redefining Fun
I often think about our everyday life being improv. When the pressure is on though it’s easy to get off track. Communication is not only important, but without it, human life would be non-existent. Honestly, I had no idea what to expect when I discovered I would be taking a communications course called “Live Exchange” [...]
January 6th, 2010:
Storytelling, Performing and Social Growth
As I think of compelling stories to tell, I realize that I am not only writing stories to be enjoyed by others, but that I’m writing my own story as well—a story containing many pages of triumph and lessons learned through my own experiences, and through the stories of others. Each time I am blessed [...]
SPECIAL PROJECT
Live Exchange: STRATEGY BY ITSELF IS NEVER ENOUGH
Linda Yaven
First, my bias. Admittedly as a coach I arrive with a strong interest in the well-being end of the spectrum: the question of how people sustain themselves amidst 24/7 demanding personal/professional lives and daunting global tasks is one I find compelling.
The subtext for my course “Live Exchange: Authentic, Effective, Generative Communication” (LiveE for short!) in The MBA Design Strategy Program at California College of the Arts is the innovative zone of human centered research, design thinking and people to people skill sets within business including emotional, collaborative and appreciative intelligence.
For our class project here at TriplePundit students write a 500 word post on sustainability related to the above.
Too often professional dilemma’s are simply dilemma’s of communication. In a time when we are all being called to identify missing conversations, bridge professional turfs or speak for those without recourse to human speech these student writings lean into “business as usual” blending the poetic with the professional and surfacing “we are in this together” thinking.
This is our fourth year collaborating with Triple pundit. Enjoy these articles by our future thinking DMBA students.
With appreciations to Nick Aster for his inspiring invitation.
-- Elle
Linda Yaven,
Associate Professor, "Live Exchange"
MBA Design Strategy Program
CCA, San Francisco
elle@lindayaven.com
Lindayaven.com
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