Apr 7, 2019 | Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism, Flip Phone Hack, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership
This is a small reprise and rewrite of an earlier piece, but with all the smart phone articles coming out, it’s worth some more thought. “Blow up your T.V. throw away your paper” John Prine famously sang in 1971. Instead of following his advice, we created...
Feb 7, 2019 | 7 Questions Innovative Leaders Ask, Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Resources
Are you or your team stuck on a problem? Is a project struggling to gain momentum? Is a new initiative stalled? Are your ideas not getting the traction you hoped for from others in the organization? Is your messaging not conveying the energy you hoped it might? The...
Jan 7, 2019 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Essentialism, Resources, Thoughts for New Professionals
“Wow, what a ton of helpful and insightful ideas!” I exclaimed as I closed 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. “Why have I not read this before?” As I read through the book journal I’ve kept over the last decade, I discovered that I had read Stephen Covey’s now...
Nov 15, 2018 | Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Developing Teams, Essentialism, Managing Change, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership, Thoughts for New Professionals
How often do you feel like you never have enough time? How often do you exclaim, “I just don’t have time for that”? How often do you spend time reading posts that start like this? Let’s be blunt: “I don’t have time for that,” is a...
Oct 15, 2018 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism
For the last two months I’ve been given the wonderful opportunity to pick my daughter up at school almost everyday at 12:30. At first, the schedule change seemed daunting, “could I get all my work done in a ‘split’ shift?” But working in the early morning hours and...
Sep 15, 2018 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Seeking Balance and Wellness in Leadership
Against a gray sky at sunrise, a yellow rose blooms. Its pedals mirror the texture of the clouds above: rolling waves like a calm day on the ocean. A slight breeze moves the leaves as a chickadee calls from the pine across the street. The song reminds me of the...
