February 2, 2012
Adelaide Lancaster, Co-Author of “The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business that Works for You”: “So don’t be afraid to admit you don’t know everything. The next time you’re asked how things are going with your company or what your plans are for the future, drop that ‘everything is better than ever!’ party line, and share more honest feedback, including what you’re still trying to figure out. You’re likely to garner more support and ideas that way—and probably more respect, too.”
Source: “4 Things I’ve Gained from Admitting ‘I Don't Know’”
Via: @ColemanCenter
Labels: Honesty
September 29, 2010
“Memory is where my passion for baking comes from, it is the core value of why I bake. I remember my Grandmother’s corn starch pudding, my Mom’s apple pie, a doughnut that I had when I was little. I think about those memories and try to recreate and idealize them. If you went back in time, that doughnut probably wouldn’t taste as good, so the idea is to match or surpass the memory.” Whether drawing on family recipes, recalling a croissant eaten in Paris, or conversations about food on a recent trip to Ireland, Craig has honed his ability …
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Source: “The Sweet Life” by Sarah Williams for The Scout
Labels: Honesty | Memory
November 29, 2009
I design to a client and their audience. We design for them. I’m—and perhaps, unfortunately so—not one who has a particularly strong design aesthetic that I lean on. I’m not known for a ‘look’ and there’s nothing wrong with either side of the coin. I try to push each project in the direction it naturally should fall into—this isn’t always easy, this isn’t always profitable. I’ve done an identity, an initial web design direction and gone through with a small beta site before getting the nagging feeling that it just wasn’t right for the client and therefore communicated with the client about it, who was too polite to tell me that they too, while content with what they were seeing, just didn’t feel all there. So, we re-started. Not entirely from scratch but in a new direction from what we originally had. At no extra cost because it wasn’t right. And sometimes, doing the right thing is much, much more rewarding and satisfying than worrying about the bottom line (i.e. profit margins, and terms like that which make me squirm a bit). This isn’t the rule nor is it the exception, it was something that made sense and was appropriate. There was room in that project to do work that we were both happy with. Not all projects can end this way but sometimes, honesty and communication can go a long way. … Listen, communicate, design well.
Naz Hamid
Co-Founder and Designer, Weightshift
Source: Stuck Between an App and a Website by Naz Hamid
Via: Noah Stokes’s weblog Es Bueno
Labels: Honesty
