The Reuben Street Apartments project uses a strategy of an articulated landscape of 1-2 stories with residential towers of 12+ stories. Envisioning this strategy into the surrounding void facilitates, the protection of the adjoining residential enclaves and the re-making of the urban node.
Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general and is foremost known as a strategist who authored The Art of War (around 500BC), an ancient book on military strategy. His principles have been used for war by many legendary warriors, including Japanese Samurai Oda Nobunaga and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. His principles are today also used by many business strategists.
It seems as we’re constantly fleeing from making mistakes. Every step and movement we make should go as planned. This kind of thinking applies that we have to know it all, see through the future with laser eyes as our guidance. However, the problem with this type of thinking is that we simply don’t know how every planned step will have its way, we purely have to take a risk: the risk of failing.
Hisakazu Shimizu is a Japanese designer who during an interview with DUDYE explained why he became a designer and how he evolved with time as he obtained a deeper understanding of the profession.
“I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.” Sun Tzu
It’s time to get away from the herd, and think for yourself. But having the will to win isn't always the key; you need more to make it in a market that is brutally competitive. You need a direction, a strategy. Strategic advantages will help you do things that others can’t copy and paste into their own systems, services or products. If you've done your research well, people will only be able to see the “brilliant” façade of your true creation.
Brainstorming is executed when you're in search for ideas to solve and improve problems. The most common brainstorming exercise is to simply write down your ideas on a sheet of paper. Though this can be an effective way, everyone don't work in the same way and we need to find certain exercises that fits our way.
Productivity never looked so good
As part of Behance's mission is to organize the creative world, Behance's line of paper products is designed with Action in mind. And now, they're introducing three new ways to get organized in style. The bonus: these new Action Method products are 100% sustainable. To make this possible, Behance has partnered with New Leaf Paper, the world's leading green paper company. New Leaf has saved over 1,693,350 trees and 472,973,848 gallons of water through its environmentally friendly practices. By choosing these notebooks, people can make a difference.
Constant change is the new and global economy, which makes the power of moving quickly very crucial.
Many visions are creatively and strategically structured, and one of the more important details is the promise of speed of action. Implementing your idea and constantly tweaking it needs to be taken seriously and it requires that you plan and fully incorporate processes of management. It requires some bold guts and a sincere determination.
Being a leader requires responsibility and determination. It's not the easiest task in the world so there are certain aspects you need to know about what it takes to handle leadership.
People can easily take your idea and copy your strategic positioning if you let them. Now, if your strategy is well performed in action, it'll be much more difficult to copy your concept.
The Kameha Grand Bonn by Marcel Wanders
The Kameha Grand Bonn showcases a new, creative and holistic approach for a modern corporate hotel; a hotel that unites the vibrant and lively atmosphere of a business hotel with the style, intimacy and exclusivity of a luxury grand hotel.
We all have behaviors that are automatic and effortless. So you need to start paying close attention to these habits. Because if you don't try to understand them, they can control you.
Constantly dealing with failure and mistakes makes it difficult to expand our views to the possibilities that can be achieved if we just considered to find the positive aspects of new ideas.
Extreme Housing by Singapore-based LOOK Architects Pte Ltd
Extreme housing call for extreme design strategies and ecological sensitive solutions. It can be learnt from Nature which is intrinsically vital for species survival. Look Architects visualized a colony of mushroom found on a forested ground, signifying the healthy state of the eco system. Hence, by analogy, sustainable housing for the future, encourages a sustainable eco living and low energy home concept made feasible by innovative design, construction and materials.
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