A few weeks ago I posted 5 Top Tips for designing creative meeting spaces, here are 5 more. And, if you want to learn how I’ve put this into practice in qualitative research, please follow the link at the end to my new article, in QRCA VIEWS. 6 Touchy “toys” bring color, delight, help relieve stress [...]
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Musings on The Right Ambiance…for Love and Meetings
February 13, 2012
If you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day you just might be thinking that special meal with your sweetheart will not be at the local diner, but a setting where the food is good, the lights are low, the music soothing, the ambiance encouraging to look into each other’s eyes and have intimate conversation. In similar fashion, creating [...]
Musings: A Toast to 2012
December 31, 2011
Dear Readers; As this year comes to a close I’m sharing with you all an absolutely delightful piece I received the other day from trend mistress Robyn Waters, with whom I’ve had the pleasure of collaboration. Tip: This works best with glass in hand, standing up, speaking up, and grooving to the rhythm! A Toast [...]
Musings: Letting Go to Receive the New
December 11, 2011
It’s that time of the year to reflect on what has transpired. The “good, the bad, the ugly,” so to speak. No seriously, it’s all good if we take the hard stuff as learning from which to move forward and re-create. I’ve started my end of year reflections; am enormously grateful for my life, love, [...]
Musings: Baring It All
October 6, 2011
I went on a “gallery crawl” in Old City Philadelphia recently and encountered a provocative sculpture in the Wexler Gallery by Dirk Straschke entitled Standing Woman with PVC Burqua. It’s a finely crafted piece that offers a realistic presence of a proudly standing nude woman, covered in a burqua. But instead of it covering her [...]
Musings on a “Soft Launch” for Stir It Up!
July 17, 2011
Last Sunday was a glorious day here and I held an open house, book signing to celebrate the recent publication of my new book, Stir It Up! Recipes for Robust Insights & Red Hot Ideas (Paramount Market Publishing.) It’s a “cookbook” of sorts, filled with exercises for market researchers, meeting facilitators, consultants and anyone looking [...]
Musings: Test Tube Burgers– How will they ever market that?
June 6, 2011
I can’t seem to get this story out of my head. Recently NPR’s Terry Gross spoke with science writer Michael Specter about something that’s been going on in labs around the world. Some of those brilliant tissue scientists responsible for growing artificial organs (like bladders) have directed similar efforts toward creating “meat” in the lab. [...]
Musings
April 19, 2011
In Praise of Pruning I’m a creative person; I excel at spinning out lots and lots of ideas and possibilities. (You may have even noticed that I get a bit wordy in my blogs!) So perhaps you can imagine my chagrin when the website and branding consultants I’m working with strongly urged me to identify [...]
Musings on being a “Meeting Fairie”
January 5, 2011
I was tickled to read yesterday’s e-newsletter from Seth Godin titled…”Making meetings more expensive…might actually make them cost less.” Seth encourages that organizations hire a “meeting fairie” in order to ensure that meetings are short, efficient and effective. Yeah! That’s been my argument for the past 25 years as I’ve worked with hundreds (maybe thousands?) [...]
Musing: Getting full on imagination
December 10, 2010
My ears perked up as I heard a piece on NPR’s Morning Edition today about a study just published in the Journal of Science about how thinking about food influences how much we eat. An Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon brought in volunteers to sit in cubicles in front of computer screens. One group was [...]
