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Ania Cozzolino
In this episode, Angie and Rebecca delve into the crucial concepts of mindset and adaptability. They explore why it is not just what happens to you, but the meaning you assign to those events that shape your reality. They discuss practical strategies for quickly building trust within work teams and how to approach challenges with curiosity. Tune in to learn how to maintain your elasticity, stretching without being overstretched, in both your personal and professional life.
Dr. Rebecca Sutherns is an insightful and high energy collaborative strategist and world class facilitator who has served as a trusted advisor to hundreds of mission-driven organizations, across Canada and internationally. Rebecca brings intellect, enthusiasm and varied experience in strategy development and adaptability when speaking, writing and mentoring. She is a skilled communicator, with a particular gift for helping leaders and organizations reimagine their next chapter. Rebecca is a Certified Professional Facilitator, frequent keynote speaker, and author of the books Nimble: Off Script but Still On Track. A coaching guide for responsive facilitation, Sightline: Strategic plans that gather momentum not dust, and ELASTIC: Stretch without snapping or snapping back.
The Elastic Enterprise is one of at least twenty-four books of a management canon that spells out the implications of coping with the emerging Creative Economy of the 21st Century. In effect, a paradigm shift in management is under way, involving not merely the application of new technology or a simple set of fixes or adjustments to hierarchical bureaucracy. It means basic change in the way people think, talk and act in the workplace. The books of the new management canon address deep changes in attitudes, values, habits and beliefs involved in the change.
Haydn Shaughnessy: In The Elastic Enterprise, we talk about things that might initially sound fairly mundane and IT related, like platforms, and the different ways in which businesses automate partnerships, and how businesses connect in automatic ways, along with the different type of leadership that you need to run this kind of enterprise. These kinds of elastic enterprises are highly externalized and are even becoming more externalized. So leaders need to learn a new set of skills. For example, leaders need to be able to attract resources to the ecosystem and the enterprise. They also need to manage a much broader portfolio of options, not just options in the sense of a portfolio of innovations, like a new product or a new product pipeline.
You also need the capabilities to operate at scale. When Apple made its move into mobile phones, suddenly they had to have an enormous transaction engine capable of dealing with billions of transactions in a year. These organizations have to make an organizational transformation and execute on it, not just talk about it as organizational change.
Haydn Shaughnessy: We looked at about 80 companies. The companies that we were impressed with were companies like BBVA [BBVA], the Basque bank. They have been hit by the problems of the second wave of Spanish banking. But if you had looked at them in 2009, you would say: this is one of the few banks that is going to survive all this nonsense. They are very well run. One of the experiences a leader now needs to have is with startups. Jobs and Bezos were founders. So was the guy running BBVA at the time. This was common among the companies we looked at. It was related to an ability to act as a peer. That is an important component of it, because you need to attract resources to your enterprise. To do that, you need to be first among equals. You need to have peer status, where those developer communities that you need to attract to your business think of you as one of them but better at it.
Some of the books in the new management canon dwell on the romantic aspirations of management to create delight, joy, happiness and enchantment in customers. Others dwell on the more mundane nitty-gritty of what you do on Monday morning to make that happen. The strength of The Elastic Enterprise is that it highlights the qualitative difference between managing the internal resources of a firm and mobilizing an ecosystem of partners and customers to create value that could not otherwise be generated. It shows how this new type of management accomplishes what was not possible with 20th Century managemen
If I were to recommend just one book for bra-making this would be it. Beverly Johnson has been a leader in the field of custom bra-making and bra patterns for home sewists. Although it has some industry-know-how information, the audience for this book is for the home sewist or custom bra-maker. What you will find inside:
There is also a a chapter on drafting a custom bra from measurements, and this is a far better method than the one demonstrated in her first book. The rest of the book, and its bulk, is devoted to lace application and sewing foam cup bras. There is a lot of great information here for the novice and experienced bra-maker.
Strengths: analysis of bra sizing in RTW, same personal tone and thorough explanations of technique, good discussion of tools used in industrial applications vs. home sewing machines.
Weaknesses: No encouragements on accuracy in cutting or patternmaking. The adjustment illustrations use bulky lines which makes the patternmaker in me squirm! (Big bulky marker lines lead to inaccurate measurements. I need sharp, sharp pencils and hard paper!)
This book and its sister volume, Bare Essentials: Underwear, are fantastic little introductions to bra and underwear making. If you want a resource that gets you started in both drafting and sewing bras without the price tag of some of my other recommendations, this is it.
Geek note: There are detailed charts for calculating stretch reductions for fabrics and elastic in both the bra and underwear books. Some users will find these charts extremely helpful, as stretch reduction (i.e., negative ease) is usually missing in other lingerie patternmaking books.
As a caveat, I personally find the reductions to be far too tight compared to standards in ready-to-wear, especially for the elastic. I prefer to test each elastic in sewing and use no more than 8% reduction and in some cases, none at all.
It walks through the construction techniques that she uses for her own bras, along with a formal but encouraging tone that beginners may find helpful. A strength of this book is in her explanations of materials and her advice to cut or bend wires as needed. There is a little bit of fitting information, but most of its focus is on materials and construction.
I previously reviewed this book here. Jill Salen is a costume designer and this book peeks inside her collection of vintage lingerie, with some construction techniques. This is a must-have for any sewing book collector or someone who wants to study vintage lingerie techniques. (Her Vintage Swimwear book is equally gorgeous.)
Available both as a paperback and pdf download. More like a booklet, this has a small section on sewing underwired bras. This section was probably republished from Threads Magazine articles, which you can find here by Cynthia Elam, the former designer of Elan Patterns.
Published by the Threads Magazine press, this book has a chapter on bra-making using either a copied pattern or one of the then-popular underwired bra patterns (Kwik Sew and Elan). Some of the methods are a little outdated.
This new book by two lingerie designers is lovingly photographed and full of design inspiration. The garments in this book are all soft wear lingerie with a heavy focus on boudoir-ish design. As such the bra patterns and their techniques are more decorative than than supportive but some of the techniques are helpful for anyone wanting to work with silk or lace application.
Love gifs? This workshop offers an introduction to creating animated gifs from historical images in open access digital archives. Some experience with Photoshop and Mac computers is helpful, but not required.
There is no single right way to visualize a data set: Graphics should be built with their ultimate context in mind. In this hands-on sketching session, participants will experiment with developing multiple solutions to the same visual problem, tailored for different audiences. Data and tools will be provided. (No laptops needed).
Release your designs from the constraints of hard surfaces while exploring the elastic sculpting capacities of polygon geometry. In this workshop, we will experiment with various digital clay sculpting techniques to create a ring.
Are you tired of keeping your thoughts confined to /r/me_irl? Have you ever wanted to be able to post status updates to meatspace? Then look no further! In the Wearable Marquees workshop we will build microcontroller powered personal scrolling billboards small enough to be mounted as a ring or a pin. Light up your life with scrolling text that lets all those around you know your true feelings and opinions by learning to solder and code!
In this workshop, we're downloading your favorite classic books from Project Gutenberg, analyzing them, and visualizing them. These visualizations can be exported into Adobe Illustrator for further styling or turned into interactive projects. We'll be using the Tidyverse framework in R, an open-source coding environment. The workshop leader believes the Tidyverse is the easiest way to learn R, and the scripts will be pre-written for you to modify for future use. Our example texts will be the works of William Shakespeare.
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