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# The Caneelian - Leadership, Creativity, Startups, Organizational Culture

The personal blog of Caneel Joyce PhD, executive coach & culture builder. Work is a spiritual journey and sometimes a total cluster.

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- [Commitment & Outgrowing Freelancers](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/09/27/commitment-outgrowing-freelancers/) - After three fails in one week, I'm realizing the commitment problem has been mine. I'm outgrowing freelancers. It's time to hire in order to scale.
- [I Should Not be Different: The Radical Practice of Self Love](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/08/23/ode-to-imperfection/) - "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." C.G. Jung One of the most transformative practices we know of is conscious self love. All of our self-parts deserve love and our whole self flourishes with his integration. Especially the "shadow" parts of ourselves that we have
- [Fall in love with your purpose](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/07/20/fall-in-love-with-your-purpose/) - What is your purpose? The question is one to step into as a journey. It can be easy. Here's how: Be curious. Be open to being surprised by what you discover. Gently raise your purpose to your ear and listen. Your purpose lives and changes just like you... savor each fleeting moment. Carry your purpose
- [Creative Constipation, Pt. II](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/07/14/creative-constipation-pt-ii/) - I've had a huge shift in my creative output and relationship with my own creativity since I first drafted my first post on Creative Constipation (about a month ago). Turns out all I needed was to start drinking more coffee to get things moving. Just kidding. Jokes aside, that post was a catalyst for committing
- [Creative Constipation](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/07/10/creative-constipation/) - Once again, I woke up in the middle of the night flooded with ideas of things I want to do, make, and write about. A familiar voice deep inside of me said “This is too overwhelming, there are too many ideas here to possibly even capture, you will spin out of control and create an
- [Video: I'm going to be honest with you](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/06/30/video-im-going-to-be-honest-with-you/) - Hi my friends, I’m back! Last year, I promised to share more of my work and thoughts with all of you, since I knew it was going to be a big year of change. But my pace of personal evolution has been so fast that I haven’t had time to reflect on what is happening.
- [Video: On Gratitude and Hating Homework](https://www.caneelian.com/2017/07/03/video-on-gratitude-and-hating-homework/) - It’s 7:30 a.m. I just woke up, and I’m wiped out. I had food poisoning yesterday. And it made me realize how grateful I am for how I normally feel. In the spirit of gratitude, I picked up this gratitude journal. It was a gift from my brother-in-law Devon, who’s a master of personal development
- [Motherhood changed my perspective—and elevated my career](https://www.caneelian.com/2016/11/04/motherhood-changed-my-perspective-and-elevated-my-career/) - Back in January, I wrote about why I was ready to be braver this year. That post was me saying ‘this is going to be a big year for me.’ Ten months later, I can confidently say I was right. I transformed my coaching and consulting company, Kickass Enterprises, and it continues to transform my life.
- [What I did in 2015](https://www.caneelian.com/2016/01/12/what-i-did-in-2015/) - Since sooo much happened in 2015 and I was admittedly terrible about keeping people updated about my whereabouts and whatuptos, here's a quick update for my friends. This is what I was up to in 2015. • Said goodbye to an amazing era in San Francisco (2000 bubble to 2015 bubble, that's 15 years less three
- [Why I'm Ready to Be Braver This Year](https://www.caneelian.com/2016/01/14/the-2016-new-years-post/) - We're already 14 days into the new year - are you on track? I AM! Know my secret? I didn't make any resolutions. (I never do.) So thus far I'm 100% on track, haha. :) No, I don't have resolutions but I do have some big goals. And they feel so aspirational that they are scary. This is an unusual post
- [I Could Tell Some Really F*&)(&ing Personal Stories. (Please weigh in.)](https://www.caneelian.com/2015/12/11/things-that-are-true-please-weigh-in/) - I write a lot about how and why to do things at work - I've explored the academic, the productive, and the professional. But this post is personal.
- [Creativity Hacks: Five steps to using constraints to solve problems fast](https://www.caneelian.com/2014/11/24/creativity-hacks-five-steps-to-using-constraints-to-solve-problems-fast/) - “Think outside the box.” That advice is about as helpful under time pressure as telling a three year old to “calm down!” in the middle of a tantrum. We all want to be creative when we face tricky problems, but how? Many creativity experts advise opening your mind to wacky ideas, and creating a sense of
- [What is a Growth Hacker? Does your startup need a Growth Team?](https://www.caneelian.com/2012/10/30/what-is-a-growth-hacker-does-your-startup-need-a-growth-team/) - You wanted to be there, you just didn't know it. The Growth Hackers Conference was last week and it was awesome. The conference was way sold out and unlike most it was totally worth the investment! Thanks to the speakers for focusing on creating value for the user through the product - it's not about spam
- [How to do lean startup: Sharing user feedback & release notes with your team](https://www.caneelian.com/2012/12/12/internal-user-feedback-blog-lean-startup/) - At Britely we aim to follow a lean startup approach of talking to users before, during, and after building every part of our product. A common challenge in startups though is that everybody is so busy building that very few people actually "get out of the building" and talk to users. So how can you get your
- [The Best of London: Hipster Scene, Cheap Eats, Gourmet Coffee & Pubs](https://www.caneelian.com/2013/01/04/the-best-of-london-hipster-scene-cheap-eats-gourmet-coffee-pubs/) - My husband Roy and I lived in London for 2+ years while I was on faculty at the London School of Economics and he worked at Shazam. We've been back in San Francisco for over a year now, but his Google Map of favorite places has lots of the best places to see and be
- [Growth is not magic.](https://www.caneelian.com/2013/01/09/growth-is-not-magic/) - There's been lots of hype lately about growth and growth hacking. I've even heard such nonsense as "we can turn on virality whenever we want to." (Um, if it were that easy..... never mind.) The truth about user acquisition is that while there are some fundamental principles at work, there is no substitute for having
- [Why the Los Angeles startup scene will keep growing](https://www.caneelian.com/2013/01/15/why-the-los-angeles-startup-scene-will-keep-growing/) - You've probably heard that my home town of Los Angeles has startup fever. There is no doubt that the LA tech scene is heating up. But is high-tech a trend, or can "Silicon Beach" really make a dent in the culture of a town where "the industry" refers to entertainment and not technology? Silicon Beach has a
- [Design is an Organizational Behavior Challenge](https://www.caneelian.com/2013/01/29/design-organizational-behavior-challenge/) - What do top universities, international airlines, and the California DMV have in common? Answer: Terrible websites, with so much hierarchy in their navigation scheme that accomplishing a basic task requires a black belt in enterprise bureaucracy. Why do companies with so many resources at their disposal have such a hard time producing good design? Simple,
- [I have a new job at Britely](https://www.caneelian.com/2012/07/23/i-have-a-new-job-at-britely/) - I'm thrilled to announce my new position at an exciting Silicon Valley startup called Britely, where I am now Director of Growth & Creativity. We're a well-funded, fast-moving new kind of user generated content site and app. I'm heading up content strategy, distribution, growth hacking, user acquisition, product marketing, and social media strategy... I love
- [Personal Idea Management: Nuts, Bolts and Apps](https://www.caneelian.com/2012/02/27/personal-idea-management/) - Hi Caneel, In “How to Keep an Idea Log You Will Actually Use” you talked, in part, about rereading your archive of ideas every 3 months. That is manageable, but I struggle with the revisiting of all the other information including: bookmarks, downloaded files, saved emails, hand written notes, etc. I would very much like
- [Seven Things I Want in a Job](https://www.caneelian.com/2012/02/24/seven-things-i-want-in-a-job/) - As you know, I've been on the job hunt lately. Just like changing countries, moving apartments and other big changes, a job search forces you to get concrete about what you want your new life to be like. And because I love working, my job is a big part that vision. I want to make
- [Big Changes](https://www.caneelian.com/2012/02/18/big-changes/) - I wanted to announce a few big changes in my life of late. LON-->SFO I’ve moved back to San Francisco to be closer to family and the amazing pulse of California life that I know and love. ACADEMIA-->INDUSTRY I am now on indefinite leave from the tenure track at the London School of Economics. We
- [How to Pick a Thesis or Dissertation Topic: Thinking by Writing](https://www.caneelian.com/2011/05/10/how-to-pick-a-thesis-or-dissertation-topic-thinking-by-writing/) - Dear Caneel, Choosing a thesis topic is kind of crazy. I feel like I'm committing to marriage or something. Is it the right one? Will I be happy? Will I get bored? Will it keep my interest? Is there something better out there? - A Masters Student Dear Masters Student, I know, the decision can
- [Fiction](https://www.caneelian.com/2011/01/11/fiction/) - I often hear people say that they no longer read novels; that if they're going to take the time to read a book, they want to learn something. But "nonfiction" means neither objective nor important. Fiction teaches empathy and truth about the impossible diversity human experience: This is NOT a waste of time. Reading novels
- [Mac Software & Workflow Tools for Academics, Writers, and other Procrastinators](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/11/12/mac-software-workflow-tools-for-academics-writers-and-other-procrastinators/) - This morning I sat stuck in the London Underground for about 90 minutes. I was listening to the Mac Power User Podcast - their "workflows" podcasts are great. Anyway, it got me thinking about the tools that I've wasted hours on over the years. I jotted down a little list on my iPhone as I waited for
- [When do you share your ideas?](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/11/10/when-do-you-share-your-ideas/) - Some of us share ideas freely, not caring who uses them or for what purpose. Some of us are more guarded, protecting our ideas and strategically selecting those that we share ideas with. Many of us share in some situations but not others - and with some people and not others. Join the debate: How
- [Children are such geniuses.](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/11/09/children-are-such-geniuses/) - 3-year-old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. The most joyous, unbridled creativity I've ever seen. I wonder: Will colleges start demanding YouTube proof of early artistic talent in their admissions applications? How great that Jonathan will be able to watch this when he's a teenager, wondering if any of the glowing
- [Distract Your Inner Critic](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/11/08/distract-your-inner-critic/) - I have written before about the evils of multi-tasking and especially task-switching. However I'd like to offer a caveat. One part of the brain - the critic - is logical, rational, judgmental, and oriented to language and analysis. Distract this part with other words or quantitative, patterned, or analytical input (like music), and you can
- [How to Keep an Idea Log You Will Actually Use](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/11/05/how-to-keep-an-idea-log-you-will-actually-use/) - Earlier this week, Steven Johnson came to the London School of Economics to present his new book, Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation. This thought leader's fascinating talk was sponsored by my department. (You can watch the video or download the podcast on the LSE Events website.) At the end of his talk, I
- [My new mission statement is an invitation to create](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/11/04/my-new-mission-statement-is-an-invitation-to-create/) - I believe in observation, collaboration, and the open-minded following of ones' heart and nose. I blog in part to find like-minded collaborators who want to create good work together. I share hunches and ideas here while they're still forming - something I don't often get to do in traditional academic publishing. It's silly, but this
- [Where Good Ideas Come From](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/10/14/where-good-ideas-come-from/) - On November 2nd I will be chairing a free event in London about creativity and innovation. Steven Johnson, best-selling nonfiction author of Mind Wide Open and Everything Bad is Good for You will be presenting his latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation. I am super excited to meet Steven Johnson, whose writings have inspired
- [Creative Current at Future Human Salon](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/09/10/creative-current-at-future-human-salon/) - Creativity gets people riled up. That was one thing I learned as a panelist at "Creative Current," the topic of Wednesday night's Future Human salon, run by Bad Idea magazine and held at The Book Club in my lovely neighborhood of Shoreditch. The other panelists included Paul Epworth (2010 Brit Awards' Music Producer of the
- [We Three Haas OB PhDs in London](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/08/26/we-three-haas-ob-phds-in-london/) - The Summer issue of CalBusiness, the alumni magazine for the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, just came out. It features a profile of myself, Margaret Ormiston (Asst Prof at the London Business School), and Connson Locke (Asst Prof at the London School of Economics with me). The article is about how the three of us
- [Experience Design Builds Brand Relationships: The Apple Store Retail Experience](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/08/24/xdretail/) - Experience Design (aka XD or ED) is a field of design that focuses on the creating the broader experience of using a product/service/space/process, rather than narrowly focusing on its functional features. To witness the power of Experience Design in retail, walk into an Apple Store. The shopping experience is impeccably consistent with the product experience (using a Mac):
- [Make Your Readers Love You: 5 Lessons from Pixar](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/27/866289448/) - Link: Make Your Readers Love You: 5 Lessons from Pixar This post from Copyblogger describes five clever “rules” derived from Pixar for “making readers love you.” I think they’re rock-solid recommendations for managers, bloggers, writers, and commercial artists of all kinds: 1. Be consistent and build trust 2. Take the time to do things right
- [Periodic Table of Mad Men](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/24/853493090/) - I am obsessed with the fantastically feminist phenom show Mad Men. Don Draper is cool as can be and Joan is a sort of anti-hero (I love her to death but I am so glad I don't have to be like her to be strong in the workplace). I love this periodic table (found at flavorwire - link
- [Quote: Love, Age, and Beauty](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/20/835990932/) - There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful. Françoise Sagan (#quote in NYTimes.com article)
- [Designers: Think you have a good eye for color? Get proof...](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/20/835964599/) - How good is your color vision? Arrange these tiles by hue to find your score - http://bit.ly/by7gz8 (based X-Rite’s official FM100 Hue Test). Brag: I got a perfect score (a zero), which pretty much made my week. Guess the Color Theory class I took in the UC Extension design certificate program a few years ago
- [A Passing Thought](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/16/819663706/) - The market for something to believe in is infinite Hugh MacLeod (via nuradical) #quote
- [Business cards (old school)](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/16/819512362/) - These DIY business cards made using a custom rubber stamp and cut-outs from second hand books. From Sidekick Studios, London. “I like the fact each one is unique and feels a bit flimsy. They seem a bit more precious and people seem to take more care with them.”
- [Dimensions of the User Experience ](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/14/811132119/) - Info graphic - The Overlapping Disciplines of User Experience
- [Decorating With Post-Its](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/07/12/802564921/) - Link: Decorating With Post-Its
- [Missing inspiration? ](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/25/735952623/) - I don’t worry about inspiration. I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, ‘Well, now it’s writing time and now I’ll write.’ There’s no difference on paper between the two. Frank Herbert, science fiction writer (via @academicladder)
- [And Van Halen sings "Write now!"](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/25/734300339/) - If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who would listen to me if I do? You’re a human being with a unique story to tell, and you have every right. Yours enlarges the
- [Summer at the LSE](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/22/725284235/) - Summer at the LSE. Londoners seize the day & students pause from their exams to enjoy the brilliant sun at Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
- [La carte blanche](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/20/718112499/) - That initial element contains an enormous number of built-in decisions that limit the scope of the intellectual or visual problem at hand, thankfully preventing the paralysis that results from the overwhelming unlimited scope of decision contained in a blank page or empty space. The initial element provides a leverage point for expression. Also that starting element helps to
- [Quote: On Products & Philosophy](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/20/717970177/) - There’s a big difference between adding a feature to an existing product and building a product around a philosophy. Dustin Curtis (via 9-bits)
- [The end is not nigh! ](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/18/711580634/) - If you are a knowledge worker, cognitive capitalist, or a Reichian symbolic analyst, you will not be retiring at 65. Period. The 15 Minutes that Could Save Five Years - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review “Everyone reading this should take 15 hard minutes to ruthlessly reassess the reality of the “new” final years of
- [The Neuroscience of Distance and Desire](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/17/709113285/) - Link: The Neuroscience of Distance and Desire Warning: What you want is not as close as it appears (via Scientific American)
- [Me, myself and the i-self..](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/17/708838932/) - This Shirt is For Real
- [The 10 best arts and culture TED talks](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/17/708253616/) - Link: The 10 best arts and culture TED talks Includes David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve. (via hydeordie)
- [Twitter-tracker !](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/15/702346967/) - Twitter analytics tool TwitterSheep makes a tag cloud from the bios of your twitter followers. {this cloud tracks mine @caneel}
- [How To Pitch Ideas like Don Draper & Why to Think About It Early](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/15/drape/) - When it comes to turning creativity into innovation, how an idea is pitched is probably more important than what the idea is. Creators often want to spend time perfecting the idea and run out of gas when it comes to developing the presentation. I've seen it happen time and again in my work facilitating product
- [Another sunny evening : ) - courtesy London Summers](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/15/701608687/) - London sky at 9:00 PM. Kid you not. Summer nights are anazing up here. It’s hard to remember to stop work and go home sometimes. (Took this shot outside my office at the LSE, near Holborn station)
- [Locals vs Tourists: Where Photos Get Taken in London](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/14/698480088/) - Blue pictures are by locals. Red pictures are by tourists. Yellow pictures might be by either. (Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA) A gorgeous info visualization map by Flickr user Eric Fischer. {Thank you for sending this to me, Kevin}
- [Orange wednesdays !](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/14/696807963/)
- [State of the vector art](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/14/696723756/) - Just found Vector Magic, a free webapp [trial] that easily converts bitmap images to clean vector art. (Desktop edition also available.) I found this via this excellent post on Lifehacker: Top 10 Photo Fixing and Image Editing Tricks. If you’ve used Vector Magic before, please post a photo reply and show us your work.
- [Art & the Artists](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/13/695102697/) - My favorite Sunday in London is a stroll of the lovely Columbia Road Flower Market. The flowers are beautiful, the people watching sublime, and Cockney accents are just as an expat would hope. Best thing about it I think is the relaxed pace, which makes it distinctly different than any market I’ve ever been to
- [This Stone Rolls forever. ](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/13/694093435/) - Mick Jagger. Childlike, raw, beautiful, and perverse. Mick’s existence suggests a truth we have all secretly always hoped for; that if unleashed, our inner rockstar would be… transcendent. {photo link: The Many Roles of Mick Jagger, via moviemorlocks.com}
- [Book Recommendation - The Art of Choosing](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/11/685662307/) - The Art of Choosing - not every culture values choice like Americans (Sheena Iyengar’s new book) http://shar.es/mAkyd
- [The exciting future of user interface (TED Video)](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/10/683400594/) - RT @guykawasaki The exciting future of user interface http://tinyurl.com/29mvosg
- [](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/09/681123416/) - I love my Oyster card and I also love the Lakers.
- [Quote: Improvisation starts somewhere](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/09/680437902/) - You can’t improvise on nothing, man; you’ve gotta improvise on something. Jazz great Charles Mingus as quoted in Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (by Keith Sawyer, 2008)
- [Get Back In The Box - Chip and Dan Heath - Creative Thinking in Business | Fast Company](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/09/680422881/) - Link: Get Back In The Box - Chip and Dan Heath - Creative Thinking in Business | Fast Company “Improv actors are taught to be specific,” Sawyer says. “Rather than say, ‘Look out, it’s a gun!’ you should say, ‘Look out, it’s the new ZX-23 laser kill device!’ Instead of asking, ‘What’s your problem?’ say,
- [](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/08/678039261/) - UNDER-COMMIT: Only do what’s really motivating. Produce excellently. Seize new opportunities. Have time to think. Enjoy lots of family time.
- [Google HQ Bans Microsoft Windows In-House After Hacking Scare | Fast Company](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/02/657445807/) - Link: Google HQ Bans Microsoft Windows In-House After Hacking Scare | Fast Company Google disses abusive lover Microsoft and bats eyelashes at Apple….
- [Self-Control is Exhaustible (Video)](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/06/02/657439310/) - Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible | Fast Company (by Dan Heath) Also see the pioneering work of psychologist Roy Baumeister and the concept of “ego strength” (I love his article about how “Self Control is Like a Muscle”).
- [WARNING: Facebook Malware Attack on the Loose (Video)](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/31/648303901/) - RT @mashable WARNING: Facebook Malware Attack on the Loose http://bit.ly/aN2gXm #facebook #phishing #social-media
- [Android chasing Apple's Ipad](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/28/641265725/) - WSJ.com - Android Emerges as Big Rival to iPad http://on.wsj.com/dCxowB
- [Britain bans Doctor who linked Vaccine to Autism](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/26/633969107/) - RT @GuyKawasaki: Britain bans doctor who linked vaccine to autism http://u.nu/8scpa
- [](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/25/632448504/) - RT @timothypaulson: Very interesting. RT @rohitbhargava: Ogilvy launches the world’s first bespoke Islamic Branding Agency: http://bit.l …
- [Bias and Interpreting Web Analytics: How TwitterCounter Cheers You Up](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/25/bias-interpreting-web-analytics-how-twittercounter-cheers-you-up/) - Check out cool new webapp TwitterCounter, which tracks your following and activity on twitter over time. Here's mine: A nice addition to your web analytics toolkit. Plus, seeing your following increase over time cheers you up when you're feeling blue. :) Analytical warning: Although humans are biased to (1) see patterns where there are none,
- [Crowdsourcing approach to college grading: "No Grading, More Learning" on Tomorrow's Professor Blog (Rick Reis, post #1027)](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/25/631749577/) - Link: Crowdsourcing approach to college grading: "No Grading, More Learning" on Tomorrow's Professor Blog (Rick Reis, post #1027) “The students were tough on each other… And this, she believes, encouraged students to work harder on their assignments.”
- [Write a Book While Building Your Personal Brand | Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/25/631653767/) - Link: Write a Book While Building Your Personal Brand | Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel Really interesting ideas for the process of writing a book by writing a series of blog posts, then treating them like pieces of a JIGSAW that you then put together in a book. 500 words a day (one short
- [Alison Powell » “You Can’t Tweet That!” Personal Branding and Public Intellectuals](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/25/631628893/) - Link: Alison Powell » “You Can’t Tweet That!” Personal Branding and Public Intellectuals
- [TwitterCounter ! ](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/25/631096549/) - TwitterCounter = Cool webapp tracks tweets, followers over time. Visually, # of updates correlates w/ # of followers. Me: http://j.mp/9ccTZP
- ["Constraint is the wellspring of creativity" (interview with light artist Alice Bain)](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/24/628236810/) - Link: "Constraint is the wellspring of creativity" (interview with light artist Alice Bain) My favorite excerpt from this interview: Gavin: What’s the process like for you in creating a piece from idea to final product?Alice: I get started just by playing around with stuff. I’ll pick up a new material because it seems like it might
- [](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/21/619944660/) - Met w/broadcasters today RE a idea I’m working on: how to develop a “culture of complaint” in UK to enable robust service innovation economy
- [FT.com / Stefan Stern – The simple (but not easy) task of focusing](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/21/617740510/) - Link: FT.com / Stefan Stern – The simple (but not easy) task of focusing For some time it has been fashionable to describe businesses and organisations as “complex adaptive systems”. The phrase sounds learned. It is a cousin of that other knowing statement: that leaders…
- [Seth Godin’s Creative Process | Steven Pressfield Online](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/21/617740511/) - Link: Seth Godin’s Creative Process | Steven Pressfield Online THE CREATIVE PROCESS Seth Godin By Steven Pressfield | Published: January 26, 2010 SP: When it comes to generating ideas, what’s your process? Solitary? Collaborative? Is it fun, is it grueling? How,…
- [](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/21/617575232/) - New on the Caneelian FT.com / Stefan Stern - The simple (but not easy) task of focusing: http://bit.ly/9WHwiF
- [The real 'Big Picture' subjects](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/20/616819135/) - A grasp of finance, strategy, marketing and all those “big picture” subjects only forms part of a serious leader’s education. Those sometimes neglected or disdained topics – organisational development and behaviour, communication, team dynamics – that are often rejected as insubstantial turn out to be crucial to success as a leader. Stefan Stem, in the
- [FT.com / Stefan Stern – The simple (but not easy) task of focusing](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/05/20/ft-com-stefan-stern-the-simple-but-not-easy-task-of-focusing/) - For some time it has been fashionable to describe businesses and organisations as “complex adaptive systems”. The phrase sounds learned. It is a cousin of that other knowing statement: that leaders need to be “comfortable with ambiguity”.Well, yes. It is a turbulent world. It is hard to be certain about the future. But isn’t part
- [Procrastination is….](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/04/01/procrastination-is/) - ...checking your email... writing emails... thesaurus-izing your emails. Procrastination is... playing video games... with your furniture. Confession time: I am the worst about procrastinating (especially if a task requires sitting still for extended periods) - even though I know that innovators are always doing things. Here's a fun but eerily accurate video by Mickey and
- [The Measurement of Design (and Other Squishy Concepts), or, Why Designers Need Scholars](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/03/30/the-measurement-of-design-and-other-squishy-concepts-or-why-designers-need-scholars/) - What do academics do that designers don't? And why should designers care? These were some of the challenging questions asked at the Design & the Creative Industries: Working Together with Universities conference last Friday in Brighton. As a scholar and teacher, I was feeling rather unappreciated (and frankly over-valued by society, relative to all of
- [I want to share ideas more freely](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/03/29/i-want-to-share-ideas-more-freely/) - ...and so I am going to start writing MORE often LESS perfectly. Not to imply in any way that I have ever achieved anything close to the P-word! It's an elusive self illusion maintained to protect the ego.... so I must let it go and practice what I preach and share my ideas before they're
- [Open Notebook Science & Sharing the Messy Process of Creating](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/03/23/open-notebook-science-sharing-the-messy-process-of-creating/) - In searching for motivations / reasons / justifications for writing and sharing more freely, I've stumbled upon the idea of Open Notebook Science, a practice of the Open Research community and inspired by open-source programming and open innovation. The Wikipedia entry explains,The term Open Notebook Science was first used in a blog post by Jean-Claude
- [My interview in BAD IDEA magazine: Marxist coffee mugs, trapped by an open mind, etc.](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/03/05/my-interview-in-bad-idea-magazine-marxist-coffee-mugs-trapped-by-an-open-mind-etc/) - One cold night a few weeks ago I met Ben Beaumont-Thomas in a hip, low-key cafe down an alley and behind an indie theatre in London's Dalston. (ICYDN, Dalston = the new Shoreditch, chic tragique.) Ben was interviewing me for a feature in Bad Idea magazine's "Tomorrow People" series. If getting people talking on the
- [The Blank Page: Effects of Constraint on Creativity](https://www.caneelian.com/2010/02/16/blank-page-diss/) - I finished my doctoral dissertation in December. I am proud to announce that I am now officially "Dr. Caneel Joyce" and owner of the letters P, h, and D. Thank you, U.C. Berkeley. Thank you, Haas School of Business. Thank you friends, advisors, Mom, Dad, brother, and especially, husband. The dissertation is of course, very
- [Google Sync: Holding Hands with Microsoft to Make Apple Jealous?](https://www.caneelian.com/2009/02/11/google-sync-holding-hands-with-microsoft-to-make-apple-jealous/) - If there's one big company I love, it's Google. No Apple. No Google. Oy vey! Until now, the two usually got along quite well, with many Google apps becoming backbones for the iPhone and eliminating we Mac users' grumpy reliance on all things Microsoft. Many Google lovers love the Mac and vice-versa.But now it seems
- [Petition for a Secretary of the Arts](https://www.caneelian.com/2009/01/19/petition-for-a-secretary-of-the-arts/) - Few things inspire hope, change, or freedom like the arts. As the arts and all forms of innovation and design are increasingly threatened in the U.S., so is our nation’s future economy, our health and welfare, and our cultural and moral legacy.Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary
- [Most bitchin’ OCD chick ever!!](https://www.caneelian.com/2009/01/19/most-bitchin-ocd-chick-ever/) - project booklets, originally uploaded by judyofthewoods.Check out judyofthewoods.net's blog and flickr page, full of extraordinary clever, thoughtful GTD and DIY project management hacks. She figured out how to make your own Levenger Circa / Rollabind-esque disc bound notebook out of milk carton and cereal box parts, and in many ways it's better than the (ridiculously
- [Can't quit phunk driving cold turkey!](https://www.caneelian.com/2009/01/16/cant-quit-phunk-driving-cold-turkey/) - The New York Times just published a review of scientific studies on the dangers of driving under the influence of cell phone usage, or phunk driving), which is apparently just as dangerous of drunk driving.The National Safety Council urges an all-out ban of phunk driving.According to the Janet Froetscher, the council’s president and chief executive,
- [Creativity within constraints: the six sentence story](https://www.caneelian.com/2009/01/15/creativity-within-constraints-the-six-sentence-story/) - A participant in a recent Haas@Work group I was facilitating (Amy Hornstein) pointed me to SixSentences, a blog for writers of six sentence-long short stories. The elegance and creative insight of some of these stories is incredible. They have even put together a book of these stories.There are several benefits to working within this format:*
- [Getting Set Up to Dive into Dissertation Mode: Organizing, Inboxes, and Software](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/12/17/getting-set-up-to-dive-into-dissertation-mode-organizing-inboxes-and-software/) - I'm currently spending some time getting myself organized and 'set up' to write my dissertation - the process, my time, my stuff, my articles, etc etc etc... I must confess that I felt guilty about compulsively doing this and little else, until a generally prudent friend assured me that I'm not OCD and that this
- [Organizing your academic job market search](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/12/17/organizing-your-academic-job-market-search/) - As many of you know, I've been on the academic job market this Fall, so far with success (multiple offers in hand at the moment, and more interviews on the agenda). Thought I'd share a process that worked well for me.The academic job market is challenging in many ways, but I didn't expect it to
- [Ordering Chaos: Reverse Outlining Useful After Freewriting](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/11/17/ordering-chaos-reverse-outlining-useful-after-freewriting/) - Sometimes I have so many thoughts written up but a hard time putting them into a concise argument. To create order from chaos, I have learned to love a technique called Reverse Outlining.In reverse outlining, you start with all of your scraps and freewriting. Print it up, and chunk it into meaningful units (topics, or
- [How do you measure organizational success?](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/06/20/how-do-you-measure-organizational-success/) - A student recently asked me this question, so I thought I'd share my answer with you.Her question: "I have a quick question. Does Organizational Behavior theory address how you measure success? For instance, when HR implements new strategies to align its people with culture and business strategy; what are some ways they measure the success
- [Environmentally Worst Way to Get a Date: SuperFly Wednesdays by Virgin America Airlines](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/05/16/environmentally-worst-way-to-get-a-date-superfly-wednesdays-by-virgin-america-airlines/) - Virgin America airlines, in a snazzy but shamelessly carbon-ious move to capture the cool urban childless professional, just announced it's new offering: mid-air mingling.VIRGIN AMERICA IS STIRRING THINGS UP ON WEDNESDAYSNetwork, chat and socialize at 35,000 feet on SuperFly Wednesdays. Enjoy 2 free drinks plus lots of mixing and mingling. Meet new people with seat-to-seat
- [Generate Ideas In Moderation!](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/01/13/generate-ideas-in-moderation/) - Idea generation is intoxicating. And like all intoxicants, Behance advocates, idea generation can be an addiction, and must be done in moderation if one is to get any creative work DONE. "New ideas have the potential to transform your life in wonderful ways, but they are also the most notorious source of distraction."I had this
- [Why Multi-Tasking and Task Switching Prevent "Flow"](https://www.caneelian.com/2008/01/07/why-multi-tasking-and-task-switching-prevent-flow/) - Lately I've been reading a lot about the distracting, information overload (or "infomania") world that most of us live and especially WORK in. Too much on our computer screens. Too much in our inboxes.Many have pointed out that the human brain "cannot multi-task" but rather that we sequentially move from one task to the next,
- [Lora Oehlberg on Logbooks, Journals, Sketchbooks, and Idea Notebooks](https://www.caneelian.com/2007/04/24/lora-oehlberg-on-logbooks-journals-sketchbooks-and-idea-notebooks/) - Today at UC Berkeley's Grouptalk brownbag seminar, Lora Oehlberg from the Berkeley Institute of Design discussed her research on logbooks, how they are used by designers and other creative folk, and the personal meaning we attach to them.To me, notebooks (or logbooks or sketchbooks or journals...) are a key part of living a creative -
- [Innovators are always "doing things" – six risks they brave to do so](https://www.caneelian.com/2007/03/24/innovators-are-always-doing-things-six-risks-they-brave-to-do-so/) - In a somewhat recent conversation with the Analytic Muse group, we revisiting the innovation vs. creativity question. Academics Kanter and Amabile both say that the difference is in implementation. The creative process involves ideation mostly - variation or generation, selection, and retention (Campbell, 1960), whereas the innovation process makes ideas usable through implementing them.So what
- [money doesn't grow on trees, but being a lawyer kills them!](https://www.caneelian.com/2007/01/07/money-doesnt-grow-on-trees-but-being-a-lawyer-kills-them/) - My fiance recently became a real lawyer. Finished law school. Took bar. Started job. Passed bar. Got sworn in. I swear, at every stage he got more and more junk mail. All from people who want him to donate money to their worthy cause. We have enough free address labels now to last us until
- [the One Page approach to new years resolutions](https://www.caneelian.com/2007/01/05/the-one-page-approach-to-new-years-resolutions/) - I've taken some inspiration from the Best Year Yet program, which I discovered on the Analog GTD Yahoo Group. They push focus over breadth. This is in line with a new insight I've had about the importance of creating, having, and printing One Page. One Page makes you reflect, select, summarize, save, and see your
- [a lethally modern recipe](https://www.caneelian.com/2005/10/17/a-lethally-modern-recipe/) - internet addiction + love of research + procrastination + perfectionism + phd program = bad back
- [Finding new music](https://www.caneelian.com/2005/10/16/finding-new-music/) - check out the music genome project's pandora.com. find new music based on cool algorithms developed by some smart people. hut-o.
- [what is blogging for?](https://www.caneelian.com/2005/10/16/what-is-blogging-for/) - Auntie Mame (for which my beloved grandma nicknamed herself) is entertaining enough and i've had a tough day... so why should i blog?i think i partly want to be accountable to the world for having something to say. so much of life is reading what others write - in my life that is, at least

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- [CV](https://www.caneelian.com/cv/) - Caneel K. Joyce: Academic CV EDUCATION Ph.D. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2009 Business Administration, Management of Organizations / OBIR group Dissertation: The Blank Page: Effects of Constraint on Creativity Barry Staw (chair), Philip Tetlock, Cameron Anderson, Robert MacCoun, and Sara Beckman, committee members M.S. Haas School of Business, University of
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