A Sense of Purpose
I have spent months agonising on something called purpose for this blog, and I have finally extracted a purpose and meaning for its existence (in addition to "freeing up brain space" As my colleague Natalie encourages me to do).
So without further a due, the purpose of this blog is to bring to life my thoughts and ideas of applying design thinking and processes to business and organisational life.
From where I sit, I don't see these two disciplines as being mutually exclusive, rather when we attempt to bring them together, they can create valuable and powerful new ways of doing things that lead us to great outcomes.
I am very fortunate to find my passion, and just as fortunate to be working for 2nd Road, a company who's vision is so well aligned with mine, I sometimes think I am dreaming to have found them.
When I begun, at 2nd Road , my boss (and long time mentor) Tony asked me to keep a journal of my experience. But as time has gone on, with the increase in workloads etc, this ritual slowly diminished to almost nothing come the end of 2006.
This year, I look to resuscitate my writing and what better way to capture and share my experience, thoughts and learnings at work than through a platform such as a blog. As this platform is public, it forces me to not just do a 'brain dump', but to carefully choose a theme and (attempt to) write articulately about it.
I think it is important to note that I have a bit of a process behind choosing themes for my posts. At the end of each week (or two, because let's see how disciplined I can be!), I will reflect and mind map my experience at work. From my spider map, a main theme will emerge which will be the main focus for each post.
I invite you to read and reflect on my writing. Comment on it too. But please keep in mind that the ideas that I share maybe in early/formative stages. I would really appreciate if you could help me build on these ideas. It would demonstrate that you are not only observing this journey, but being an active participant in it too.
So without further a due, the purpose of this blog is to bring to life my thoughts and ideas of applying design thinking and processes to business and organisational life.
From where I sit, I don't see these two disciplines as being mutually exclusive, rather when we attempt to bring them together, they can create valuable and powerful new ways of doing things that lead us to great outcomes.
I am very fortunate to find my passion, and just as fortunate to be working for 2nd Road, a company who's vision is so well aligned with mine, I sometimes think I am dreaming to have found them.
When I begun, at 2nd Road , my boss (and long time mentor) Tony asked me to keep a journal of my experience. But as time has gone on, with the increase in workloads etc, this ritual slowly diminished to almost nothing come the end of 2006.
This year, I look to resuscitate my writing and what better way to capture and share my experience, thoughts and learnings at work than through a platform such as a blog. As this platform is public, it forces me to not just do a 'brain dump', but to carefully choose a theme and (attempt to) write articulately about it.
I think it is important to note that I have a bit of a process behind choosing themes for my posts. At the end of each week (or two, because let's see how disciplined I can be!), I will reflect and mind map my experience at work. From my spider map, a main theme will emerge which will be the main focus for each post.
I invite you to read and reflect on my writing. Comment on it too. But please keep in mind that the ideas that I share maybe in early/formative stages. I would really appreciate if you could help me build on these ideas. It would demonstrate that you are not only observing this journey, but being an active participant in it too.
posted by lauren and geoff at 6:20 pm
3 Comments:
thanks for this initiative lauren. I have emailed Angela for us to see whether this will work more widely. I have never participated in a blog discussion - but if we wanted to formalise it from our learning days, we shd probably nominate a blog leader who can kick off the discussion. not sure how this would work.
Good luck Lauren. This is a great idea. The purpose is a good one. And one I know you've been passionate about for a long time. I'm going to put your blog on my RSS reader, so I know exactly when you update it.
thanks for your words tony and nick :) i am really in the stage of prototyping this blog as a form of a journal. i hope it works! guess we'll see in the coming months...
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