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...
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...
Jul 15, 2018 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Essentialism, Flip Phone Hack
I believe there is a practice we’re losing quicker than we realize, and it was a practice that meant our survival in those ‘early days.’ Today, I think it’s a practice that sets leaders, innovators, and even happier people apart from the...
Jun 22, 2018 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Managing Change, Resources
Do you consider yourself a designer? As you begin a new project where do you start? How do you know which team members to bring in and when? What processes do you use to define your goals, set specific guidelines, or clarify what success looks like? Is your model...
