Danny Meyer Is on a Roll - NYTimes.com
Danny should be an inspiration to businesses of all strides. So much we can learn from his approach.
We’re either growing, or we’re getting weaker. There’s no standing still. Whether you shared his politics or not, Eldridge Cleaver was right. We’re either part of the solution, or we’re part of the problem.
But here are a few things the show won’t have: Speeches, slide shows, or tickets. Wurman’s plan is to stage a series of improvisational one-to-one conversations, held in front of a small invitation-only audience and then disseminated to the outside world via a high-quality, for-sale app that captures the event.
Our iterative process often teaches us invaluable lessons. Watching users ‘in the wild’ as they use our products is the best way to find out what works, then we can act on that feedback. It’s much better to learn these things early and be able to respond than to go too far down the wrong path.
Far from innovating our institutions in this time of historic, sweeping global economic crisis and social fracture, the very opposite seems to be happening—our institutions are diminishing, regressing, devolving, sliding back tens or hundreds of years at a time into economically prehistoric practices and beliefs.
NEW YORK - Time Lapse - Tilt Shift - Scales by Fernando Livschitz (by Black Sheep Films)
27th July 2011
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There’s no magic formula. But creating a little bit of magic in a mechanistic, soulless, humdrum world will go a long way.
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