Nov 19, 2016 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 41 So, I’m still teasing out this idea of regularly asking the question “what else might work?” If you are out there reading along, pondering this question, and innovating, please email me...
Oct 17, 2016 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 40 I’m sitting in a coffee shop waiting, waiting, waiting. Our meeting started 20 minutes ago, but still no one walks through the door. How did I get here? And why am I here, waiting, yet again? Last month I posted a photo of...
Oct 9, 2016 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Developing Innovative Awareness
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 39 I think sometimes our culture idealizes big: a big reach as a nonprofit, big buildings, big salaries, big stardom. But often times, this obsession with size and growth displaces the value we might place instead on scaling our...
Oct 1, 2016 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Thoughts for New Professionals
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 38 (reprise, originally written in Fall 2014) (This was in response to LinkedIn’s “What makes a pitch unforgettable?” prompt): There is most definitely an art to pitching a new idea. And investors, collaborators, and...
Sep 17, 2016 | Breaking Through, Essentialism, Flip Phone Hack
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 37 There are very few people I meet who are not befuddled by the fact that the picture right up there is in fact my phone, and the only phone, that I use (I actually have two of the same version for life and business). How, as someone...
Sep 10, 2016 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 36 While Hacking first makes us think of massive computer viruses and technological take-downs, lots of think pieces recently encouraged us to re-purpose the concept of hacking as a useful method to question paradigms, innovate...
