Critical Business School Archive

Critical Business Salons

Five years of CBS sessions — prompts, frameworks, and salon notes.

127 sessions

House rules — to make this a robust container
  • Approach each other with good faith
  • Listen first
  • Inquire without a script
  • Embrace nuance and discernment
  • Communicate with generosity
  • Practice curiosity and self-responsibility
  • Think twice before bringing outside expert advice (a book, a talk) into this space

An invitation to join CBS

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CBS 2020/CBS

2020

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CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 Session 1

January 2021

what are the places where you’re creative?

CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 Session 2

January 2021

what does a collaboration feel like?

CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 Session 3

January 2021

Does creativity come before or after a plan (/tool)? or how would you plan creativity?

CBS 2021/1 CBS January/CBS 1 Session 4

January 2021

CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 1

February 2021

what is an artifact/ you invented?

CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 2

February 2021

Communicate 2020, without words. You can use gestures, dance, objects, moving yourself or moving the camera.

CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 3

February 2021

Share something you know; Is knowing it objective, subjective or intersubjective (exist in a relationship)?

CBS 2021/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 4

February 2021

How do you teach what we don’t know?

CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 1

March 2021

What is the best place to ask a question?

CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 2

March 2021

How do you call for help? Feel free to draw, act, mime.

CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 3

March 2021

What is between self expression and self consumption? or how to decide what goes with what when we follow our story?

CBS 2021/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 4

March 2021

What is alive in your/one’s practice?

CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 Session 1

April 2021

Who controls time?

CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 Session 2

April 2021

Where do you look for scarcity?

CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 Session 3

April 2021

What is the edge of the self?

CBS 2021/4 CBS April/CBS 4 Session 4

April 2021

How many lives are you living?

CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 Session 1

May 2021

What makes you?

CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 Session 2

May 2021

Is knowledge whole?

CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 Session 3

May 2021

What, or who decides value?

CBS 2021/5 CBS May/CBS 5 Session 4

May 2021

Do ideas connect?

CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 Session 1

June 2021

Where to start optimizing?

CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 Session 2

June 2021

Does association lead to utility or value?

CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 Session 3

June 2021

What is the delta between utility and value?

CBS 2021/6 CBS June/CBS 6 Session 4

June 2021

How do you decide what to leave out?

CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 Session 1

July 2021

What is the order of logic?

CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 Session 2

July 2021

How many steps exist between known and unknown?

CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 Session 3

July 2021

What benefits from efficiency?

CBS 2021/7 CBS July/CBS 7 Session 4

July 2021

How do you recognize knowledge?

CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 Session 1

August 2021

What is a clear signal?

CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 Session 2

August 2021

How to make science better?

CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 Session 3

August 2021

What holds ideas together?

CBS 2021/8 CBS August/CBS 8 Session 4

August 2021

CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 Session 1

September 2021

Who choreographs?

CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 Session 2

September 2021

Who do we work for?

CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 Session 3

September 2021

Who holds the camera?

CBS 2021/9 CBS September/CBS 9 Session 4

September 2021

CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 Session 1

October 2021

What is the difference between planning and resilience?

CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 Session 2

October 2021

How do we switch gravities?

CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 Session 3

October 2021

Which way is north?

CBS 2021/10 CBS Oct/CBS 10 Session 4

October 2021

CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 Session 1

November 2021

CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 Session 2

November 2021

How much creativity can you afford?

CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 Session 3

November 2021

What is the purpose of knowledge?

CBS 2021/11 CBS November/CBS 11 Session 4

November 2021

Who is the most successful person you ever met?

CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 Session 1

December 2021

What is the price of clarity?

CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 Session 2

December 2021

What game are you in?

CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 Session 3

December 2021

How to expect nothing specific?

CBS 2021/12 CBS December/CBS 12 Session 4

December 2021

What stops movement?

CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 Session 1

January 2022

How do you draw a frame?

CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 Session 2

January 2022

What is the shape of utility?

CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 Session 3

January 2022

Who writes the curriculum?

CBS 2022/1 CBS Jan/CBS 1 Session 4

January 2022

What do you expect from value?

CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 1

February 2022

What stage are you looking for?

CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 2

February 2022

Who do you practice with?

CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 3

February 2022

What are you promoting?

CBS 2022/2 CBS February/CBS 2 Session 4

February 2022

What holds conversations?

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 1

March 2022

What gets in the way of thinking?

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 2

March 2022

Who pretends to understand you?

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 3

March 2022

When does collaboration start?

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/CBS 3 Session 4

March 2022

What happens when it is all done?

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 4

March 2022

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 5

March 2022

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 6

March 2022

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 7

March 2022

Workshop, Week 7

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 8

March 2022

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 9

March 2022

CBS 2022/3 CBS March/Prompt Workshop, Week 10

March 2022

CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 Session 1

April 2022

Does meaning grow with time?

CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 Session 2

April 2022

Where do stories live?

CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 Session 3

April 2022

Are experiences generative?

CBS 2022/CBS 4 April/CBS 4 Session 4

April 2022

What is the role of precision?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 01

2024

What is the shape of belonging?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 02

2024

How does belonging change over time?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 03

2024

How do you belong with people you have not met yet?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 04

2024

What is the cost of planning?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 05

2024

How to invite people?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 06

2024

What is the language of belonging?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 07

2024

What is the point of thinking about value?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 08

2024

How to reflect?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 09

2024

Where does meaning belong?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 10

2024

How to experiment with belonging?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 11

2024

How to navigate places?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 12

2024

What comes after belonging?

CBS 2024/Part 1/Week 13

2024

What is belonging?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 01

2024

What makes a place?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 02

2024

What is the value of a place we have not been to yet?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 03

2024

Who are you, where you are?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 04

2024

When does one place end and a new one start?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 05

2024

Where does noticing start?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 06

2024

What happens over time?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 07

2024

What is the value of the places we have been to?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 08

2024

How does a place start?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 09

2024

Where does value form?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 10

2024

What is care?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 11

2024

How do you communicate value?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 12

2024

What's the direction of things?

CBS 2024/Part 2/Week 13

2024

Where is value shared?

CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 1

January 2025

What is the slowest thing you do?

CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 2

January 2025

What gets better with efficiency?

CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 3

January 2025

How much is enough?

CBS 2025/1 Jan/Post Efficiency World, Week 4

January 2025

What is the value of something that has not happened yet?

CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 1

February 2025

CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 2

February 2025

Who pays for attention?

CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 3

February 2025

Who gets in the way of attention?

CBS 2025/2 Feb/Attention Economies, Week 4

February 2025

How do you offer attention?

CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 1

March 2025

CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 2

March 2025

Where does value start, and where does it end up?

CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 3

March 2025

What is the point of collecting?

CBS 2025/3 March/Embodied Creativity, Week 4

March 2025

Where do ideas live?

CBS 2026/CBS 2026, 1.26.26

2026

CBS 2026/CBS 2026 Welcome

2026

CBS Sessions Sustainable Marketing

CBS Shots/NFT’s a Second Conversation

(breakout rooms): 20 mins

CBS Shots/NFT’s Critical Moment

(breakout rooms): 20 mins

CBS One Off Heavy-lifting Ideas

How heavy is a good idea?

Course Outline

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Critical Business/CBS 2/CBS 2 Introductions

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Critical Business/CBS 2/What is the Role of Speculative Design and Forecasting When Living Through Speculative Times

Critical Business/What Does Studio Culture Mean Without a Studio

Critical Business Salons/CBS1/CBS 1 Prep Work

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Critical Business Salons/CBS for Thirdness

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Critical Business Salons (1)

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Critical Business Salons

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D Crit Meta Notes

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