Interview with Adobe CS Extraordinaire Deke McClelland and my Lovable, Slave-Driving Editor

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I like to make the most of my work trips around the country, and evidently my editor at O’Reilly, Colleen Wheeler, likes me to do that as well. So while I was returning from a presentation on The Doodle Revolution, she asked me to interview on Martini Hour with she and her co-host, Deke McClelland, the author of, oh I don’t know, 99 books on the Adobe Creative Suite. Because the show was called “Martini Hour,” it was not in my vocabulary to say no. So we all took our shoes off and proceeded to have a lively conversation about visual thinking, the importance of the doodle, innovation in the workplace using design thinking, and how much I thought the two of them should be in love because they got along so well. Oh, and of course, we also discussed our forthcoming book, GameStorming, which is a playbook for explaining why and how you can get your hands dirty at work using visual thinking to solve business problems. To hear the audio, click: MartiniHour-075-128Kbps. But first, pour yourself a dirty martini. :)

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