Jun 21, 2016 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Innovative Awareness, Developing Teams
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 42 (reprise, originally written in Fall 2014) On Saturday, I spent a really cool morning with local high school students and their teachers at the ArtHaus (an awesome space in the RiNo which opened their doors to these student...
Jun 4, 2016 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Managing Change, Resources
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 30 People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. — Saul Alinsky I question how often the wisdoms of great thinkers fade away, their time having come and...
May 21, 2016 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Teams
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 28 Imagine a typical ball game … goals of some sort, two teams, a ball, relatively clear rules … all the players are generally competent in the game’s usual strategy … the whistle blows and the sporting event...
May 14, 2016 | Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity, Developing Teams, Thoughts for New Professionals
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 27 There are moments when we realize information we came across years ago resonated with us so strongly that it has become a part of who we are and how we approach the world. I’m not stating that I’m a master of Emotional...
Feb 19, 2016 | Breaking Through, Creative Leadership, Developing Innovative Awareness
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 15Leadership takes on many forms. While there are only a few widely accepted, researched, and officially ‘academized’ leadership theories, and somewhere between only 12 – 20 traits or skills that a lot of people will...
Feb 16, 2016 | 7 Questions Innovative Leaders Ask, Breaking Through, Creative Leadership
Question 7 of the Seven Questions Innovative Leaders Ask, the Break Through, Vol. 1, Post 14 The likelihood is that as soon as your idea struck you, you jumped to answering this question. I know this has happened to me dozens of times. Though hopefully you’ve...
