Paradigm Shifts

After Millennium Park and the High Line set a new standard for public parks, many cities have wondered whether they need stylized, expensive public spaces to compete and serve their populations. Cincinnati’s Washington Park suggests otherwise.

The world around us is changing so rapidly and so radically that conventional thinking and conventional paradigms are the death knell to leadership and organizations.

There are core values that must never change, for in changing them we cease to be who we are.

My friend Jim Pinto loves the word paradigm. I tend to think it is overused. But I choose it caref...

LEAD — A real page turner can now be termed a real screen burner. A major technologically-driven paradigm shift in the public access of reading material has officially made its way into the mainstream in Lead.

President Obama's nomination of Dr. Jim Yong Kim is receiving immediate reaction in the global media as an inspired and surprising choice. It is indeed both.

TODAY, there has been a paradigm shift in the way higher education is conducted. It is not just about helping students to get their paper qualifications.

If the reveiw quotes Joel Barker, it has to be shared here:

Bob Boylan, author of Stop Being Predictable: 14 Tactics that Will Make Your Presentations Insanely Effective, says that presenters need to make a paradigm shift if they want to be more effective.

In Joel Barker's book Paradigms, he defines a paradigm as ones perception of reality. Presenters are stuck giving presentations the way they do because that is the only way they believe a presentation will be accepted. Trying something different would be like a quarterback using a catchers mitt it wouldnt match their perception of reality.

"Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for IT, transforming computing power into a utility," observed James Weir, CTO and Co-Founder of UShareSoft, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. "While cloud adoption remains in the early stages," Weir continued, "this shift means that the overall market will grow massively in the coming years."

The World Wide Web offers seemingly countless online resources from across the globe and an enhanced ability to communicate and collaborate with others. This has been its own paradigm shift. It also offers the potential of purposefully directing this momentum to our communities to create what is called here 'new community paradigms'.

The first image that comes to my mind when I think about business computing is the dystopic scene from the 1984 Apple commercial: A swarm of employees wearing the same uniforms and marching in unison into their offices where they are forced to use...