Mike Bonifer

Drew Westen's Tension

Mike Bonifer | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Storytelling, Story, Mike Bonifer, Drew Westen, Stanley McChrystal, Narrative, New York Times, Timothy Geithner, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Jeffrey Immelt, G.E., Improvistion, Media News
Mike Bonifer

Drew Westen's leaving race out of his critique of how Barack Obama is playing the game is like leaving computers out of Bill Gates' story, or leaving love out of Paris.

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Letter From an Angry Mother

Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Earth, Conservation, Coal, Mother, Mike Bonifer, Environmentalism, Earth Day, Gamechangers, Climate Change, Environment, Arctic Ice Melt, Dinosaurs, Deforestation, Mother Earth, Global Climate Change, Healing, Coal Burning, Green News
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Chernobyl? Nuclear reactors and vodka? That was a bright idea. First, you poison me with radiation, then you invite tourists to see the results? Why? So you and your kids can laugh at the featherless geese?

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How to Kick Yeahbut

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Bonifer, Agreement, Business Education, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Business, Improvisation for Business, Yeahbut, Yeahbutting, Yes But, Scenes, Theater, Business News
Mike Bonifer

A business narrative, like a theater performance, consists of a series of scenes. These scenes can often go on for extended periods of time, and take...

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Revolution 2.0

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Wael Ghonim, Cnn, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Improvisation for Business, Google, Networked World, World News
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Wael Ghonim, Google's marketing manager for the Middle East and North Africa, had been held captive by the Egyptian government for 12 days. Recently...

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Egypt Needs the E-Team

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dean Conklin, Egypt, Sybille Culhane, Ucla, Middle East, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Garbage, Solar Circus, Michael Culhane, T. H. Culhane, Mubarek, Sustainability, Gamechangers, Uprising, Green News
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It takes an E-Team to convert a community, to show how the twin levers of science and art can get the genie back in the bottle.

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Power Moves

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Analysis, President Obama, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Nancy Pelosi, Getty Images, Photograpy, Gamechangers, Eric Cantor, Pulitzer Prize, Media News
Mike Bonifer

This photo, featured on the 11.30.10 HuffPost landing page, is one of my favorite politically-themed photos of the year. It depicts a perfect littl...

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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Game

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeking Alpha, Mike Bonifer, Debt, Viola Spolin, Improvisation, Growth, Business, Gamechangers, Ellen Brown, Economy, Sustanability, Goldman Sachs, Go Loco, Laurence Fishburne, Business News
Mike Bonifer

The game played by Goldman Sachs and all the predatory satellites in its system goes beyond crooked. It's criminal. And worse than criminal, it is a crime that can't be prosecuted.

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Goodbye, Consumer

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communication, Marketing, Consumer, Mike Bonifer, Customer, Gamechangers, Branding, Improvisation for Business, Wurskuche, Business News
Mike Bonifer

In a sustainable economy, how we roll is going to be much more important than how much we roll.

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The President's 'Question Time' Scene, Analyzed

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Games, President's Question Time, Mike Bonifer, Obama, Republicans, Gamechangers, Democrats, Improvisation for Business, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

Obama has changed the political game by calling it out for exactly what it is. Let's call the current game, "Our Way or No Way." It is played by Democrats and Republicans alike, with equal vigor.

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Is the iPad a GameChanger?

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Story, Gamechangers, Apple, Launch, Gamechanger, Improvistion for Business, Mike Bonifer, Narrative, Branding, Storytelling, Brand Narrative, Product, Ipad, Technology News
Mike Bonifer

As Steve Jobs says, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. A product like the iPad, can be said to have 'changed the game' only after the game, has, in fact, changed.

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Improviser in Chief

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Games, Improviser in Chief, Tim Geithner, David Brooks, Mike Bonifer, New York Times, Obama, Afghanistan, Bonifer, NY Times, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Scenes, Mission Accomplished, Iraq, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

David Brooks expresses a mystifying lack of comprehension at how the Obama team rolls.

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Pat on the Back

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Touching, Mike Bonifer, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Business, Sexual Harrassment, Networked World, Communication, Employee Relations, Work, Hr, Human Resources, Corporate Environment, Workplace, Bonifer, Martin Ett, Obsessicom, Business News
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Touching is a vital element of communication, but between the computer culture and the corporate playbook, it is being systematically eliminated from the game.

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Tiger's Unplayable Lie

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crisis Management, Scripted Narrative, Story, Mike Bonifer, Nau, Gamechangers, Bill Johnson, Branding, Business, Buick, Accenture, Distributed Narrative, Nike, Tiger Woods, Gillette, Golf, Channels, Dimension, Vitalhemptations, Business News
Mike Bonifer

Tiger can redeem himself for his audience, but he's got to want to be an authentic hero, not one playing a role. Here are five moves he (or any other burning brand) can make in that direction.

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Solar The Sign!

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solar-Power, Antonio Villaraigosa, Tom LaBonge, Mike Bonifer, Los Angeles, Solar Paneling the Hollywood Sign, La Real Estate, Politics, Gamechangers, Dreams, Entertainment Industry, Sustainability, Solar Power, Solar-Power-Hollywood, Hollywood, Green News
Mike Bonifer

Solar Paneling the Hollywood Sign struck me as a beautiful, artful, symbolically powerful idea -- what I call in my line of work a 'productive game'

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Leadership in the Age of Improvisation

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Bill Clinton, The Age of Improvisation, Maureen Dowd, Heroism, Stardom, Hillary Clinton, NY Times, Barack Obama, Kim Jong-Il, Del Close, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton China, Clinton Obama, Hilary Clinton Secretary of State, Casting, Mike Bonifer, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

Ms. Clinton demonstrates that the new mode of leadership is just as much about generosity, and gifting a fellow player with a moment in the spotlight, as it is about seizing it for oneself.

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How Obama's Improvisation Trumps McCain's Script

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Campaign, Strategy, Mike Bonifer, Bonifer, Improvisation, Republicans, Business, Democrats, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Networked World, Narrative, Scripting, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

For any organization like the U.S. government that has a significant presence in the Networked World, improvisation is vital. Non-stop learning is the cornerstone of innovation and growth.

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Thank You, Comedians!

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Entertainment, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Communications, Sarah Palin, John.I.Am, Steven Colbert, Sarah Silverman, Comedians, Conan O"Brien, Chris Rock, Bonifer, Tina Fey, David Letterman, Bill Maher, john.he.is, Comdey, Jon Stewart, Opus Moreschi, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

In the Age of Irony, there is no such thing as just a pig. It's what kind of joke you make about the pig that gets your point across. Its your mega-pig that counts.

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Letter to the Undecideds

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Football, Abortion, Undecideds, November Election, Anti-Abortion, Mike Bonifer, Gun Owners, Mccain, Obama, Improvisation, Nascar, Guns, Bonifer, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Politics News
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He is the kind of hunter who, sooner or later, is going to shoot another hunter.

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Not a Hail Mary, a Fumblerooski

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Politics of Deception, Vice-President, Mike Bonifer, Obama Team, Bonifer, Republicans, Gamechangers, Sarah Palin, Hail Mary, Fumblerooski, Palin Fumblerooski, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

A Hail mary is not the play the Republicans are running. This is not a last-second desperation play. There's a lot of time left in the game. This is deception by design: It's the Fumblerooski.

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Lessons for Obama

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, Mike Bonifer, 2008 Campaign, Obama, Clintons, Mccain, Democratic, Presidency, Gamechangers, Improvisation for Business, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

This is how we do it, said the Political Masters to the Eager Student. Watch and learn. Stub Up, Young Candidate. Look at how stubborn we are. You...

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