The Lateral Lens
Charles LambdinLateral thoughts on project management, product design, and business strategy
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We Can Do Better
1. Blind Language
You may have heard that the only social responsibility a business has is to “increase its own profits”. At least, that’s what the Friedman Doctrine would have us believe. We were promised this doctrine would benefit...
Demanding Democracy
Slave, who is it that shall free you?
Those in deepest darkness lying.
Comrade, only these can see you
Only they can hear you crying.
Comrade, only slaves can free you.
Everything or nothing. All of us or none.
—Bertolt Brecht
T...
You’re Being Lied To
1. The Wilderness of Mirrors
CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton famously described the world of espionage as a “wilderness of mirrors”. Much like John le Carré’s masterpiece, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (itself inspired...
Origin Stories
George Washington. America’s first president. Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. A state is named for him, as is our capital. Thirty one states have counties named for him. He is still hailed as one of...
Narrative Warfare
Stories contain frames. Frames contextualize interpretation. A frame shared by enough people is invisible. It becomes “just the way things are”, the background against which the figure emerges in contrast. Just because a frame is unnoticed...
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