Category: Tools
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12- From occasional to regular sprints
Looking back at my “daily” sprints, it turns out they have been bi-weekly at best: Eighteen sprints in 120 days this year totaling 15 hours of work. It’s not a stellar achievement, I agree. As the very purpose of the sprints is to test things out, let’s try to find out why this is happening…
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11- Garden Video #2
Observe how hand-drawn gardens transform day by day. This is my first video using the commercial application runwayml.com after earlier trials in this video using the research project FILM. Technical Note It took me only a few minutes to create the video by uploading 5 gardens to the runwayml website, selecting the interpolation tool and…
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Garden Video #1
Watch my first garden grow from bare soil in this first video! I hope to produce at some point in time a video that shows all my garden drawings (about 80 at the moment), one evolving into the next day after day. A technical side note I thought it would be easy to produce a…
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Garden Q&A
Why do I draw gardens? I draw gardens to better understand how I feel and how events in my life influence me. It helps me clarify my thoughts and to put names on my feelings. They also provide a safe space in which I get to choose how I react to events instead of just…
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How I draw my virtual gardens
I try to take every day a few minutes to draw how I feel on the spot without analyzing too much. The idea is to let my emotions and thoughts flow into the garden sections and to let the drawing emerge on the template. It takes me about 10 minutes using a pre-printed a A4…
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What do stage artists teach us about stress?
First posted 30 October 2021 on IMD intranet. Is stage fright common among professionals? How do they cope with it? And what can business people learn from it? It turns out that studying how stage artists experience and manage stress can inspire all of us. Look at this image and identify your first emotion: For…
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What is my stress signature? And can the recovery plan help?
First posted 6 October 2021 on the IMD intranet. My first thought waking up early morning was about the purchase order that the customer had not sent on the day we had agreed. It was the last step of an intense 4-month negotiation, and the document was the last thing needed to close the deal…
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“Mom, are you right now above or below the line?”
A take-away from the IMD International Alumni reunion on 1-2 October 2021 in Lausanne. First posted 5 October 2021 on the IMD intranet. Alyson Meister’s “Above the line” and “Below the line” concept is simple and elegant yet useful: When you feel above the water line, you maybe stressed, but you remain open, curious, in…
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