Jan 22, 2017 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism
As we take some time this weekend to contemplate and assess the new world that suddenly seems to be before us, I began to think about the importance of slowing down. Maybe it was my brush with death when a woman making a left-hand turn through the pedestrian walk as I...
Jan 12, 2017 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness
Your Break Through Post # 48 {Vol. 2, Ed. 2} At the beginning of 2016 I posted a series under the title, Seven Questions Innovative Leaders Ask^, which are what I believe to be the foundation of Creative Leadership and Design Thinking, and thus the foundation for how...
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...
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...
Sep 3, 2016 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Thoughts for New Professionals
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 35 (reprise, originally written in Summer 2014) Last spring, as part of the mini-series on the Artist’s Wheel, I posed questions about how our energy increases our effectiveness. This idea is fresh on my mind after seeing the...
