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Metaphors series revisited: Opportunity

By on April 9, 2013 in Design, Inspiration, Presentations

Last June, we had a series of posts brainstorming possible visuals for metaphors, including: growth, balance, and leadership.  In the beginning of this second series, we covered innovation.  In this post, I’ve put together a list of possible images for another theme that I’ve seen in tons of presentations:  opportunity. According to Merriam Webster, an opportunity is: A [...]

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Metaphors Series Revisited: Innovation

By on April 2, 2013 in Design, Images, Inspiration

Last June, we had a series of posts brainstorming possible visuals for metaphors, including: growth, balance, and leadership.  In this post, I’ve put together a list of possible images for another theme that I’ve seen in dozens of presentations:  innovation. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of innovation is: 1.  The introduction of something new 2. [...]

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Metaphors series: Leadership

By on June 26, 2012 in Design, Inspiration, Presentations, Uncategorized

In continuation on my series of brainstorms for alternatives to “played out visual metaphors,” I’m attacking Leadership.  This is one where folks frequently show something at the top or somewhite man in a suit. But what is leadership, really?  Good leaders inspire other to follow, they have contagious energy, and a vision.  They’re good at [...]

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Metaphors series: Balanced/Unbalanced

By on June 22, 2012 in Design, Images, Inspiration, Presentations

As noted in my last post, I love metaphors and am a huge fan of using them to presentations.  I am not, however a huge fan of the same metaphors being used over and over again.  In the last post, I brainstormed alternatives to a tree being used for growth.  Today, I’d like to conquer [...]

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