Mar 22, 2017 | Breaking Through, Building Community, Creative Leadership
Community matters because it is the foundation from which inspirational acts, great works of art, language and communication, compassion, innovation, leadership, and deep thinking stems. Our communities inform and empower us, holding us up when things get tough, and...
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...
Apr 9, 2016 | Artist's Wheel, Breaking Through, Cultivating Creativity
Your BREAK THROUGH, Vol. 1, Post 22 All we need is love. — John Lennon It’s really not necessary to expand too much further on Lennon’s lyrical wisdoms. He pretty much got It. But do we? I’m not entirely sure that we do . . . not as...
