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To help you and your organization become more innovative and effective, this seminar ... Read More »
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5 Reasons Why You May Never Be Creative
Throughout the business community there’s no shortage of discussion about the importance of creativity for both corporate and personal success. In fact, it’s increasingly viewed as a core competency. As a creative professional, I couldn’t agree more. So I’d like to outline some of the obstacles to creativity, what might be keeping you or your company […]
Learning To Think Inside A Box
Search Google for “Training To Think Outside The Box” and you’ll get close to 10 million results. An overabundance of articles, seminars and workshops will instruct you on the myriad ways to overcome the box-like constraints that are keeping you or your company from reaching its true creative potential. There’s just one problem: Creativity is […]
Storytelling is hardwired into all of us. It’s how we see the world, and how we explain it. But what ... Read More »
Lead Like An Artist is a unique leadership training course that approaches leadership as a ... Read More »
Learning How To Learn | A Musician’s Approach
In a recent episode of Sam Harris’ Waking Up podcast, author and futurist Kevin Kelly claimed that the most important skill contemporary education can offer is learning how to learn. As technology changes at an ever-increasing pace, Kelly argues, we’ll all be perennial “newbies,” forever required to master new competencies which themselves will soon become […]
In his bestselling book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly mentions the “10,000-Hour Rule,” claiming that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. Whether the correct amount is 10,000 hours or 20,000 or 5,000, the fact remains that […]
Among the most overlooked skills in public speaking is the ability to be yourself. The power ... Read More »
Whether it’s branding for your company, your clients or a personal brand for yourself, organizations need ... Read More »
Critical Thinking And Storytelling
We usually don’t speak of critical thinking and storytelling in the same breath. But critical thinking is key to storytelling in a number of ways. Before we explore them, it might be best to review what we mean by critical thinking in the first place. In short, critical thinking is an approach to determining whether […]
A lot has been made about the importance of brand storytelling. Which begs the question: what exactly is brand storytelling? Moreover, is “storytelling” even the right word to describe what a brand does or should be doing? Is Brand Storytelling Just A Buzzword? We tend to think of “stories,” after all, as narratives that have a […]
Your economic survival is threatened by machines and outsourcing. This was explored to considerable extent in Daniel Pink’s brilliant book, A Whole New Mind. Pink notes what is becoming increasingly obvious: many jobs formerly done by Americans can now be done cheaper and faster by machines or labor outsourced overseas to low-wage workers. Simply put, […]
Everyone seems to agree that for an organization to succeed, you need to have a company vision. A vision is the source, we’re told, from which all strategies and actions flow, the foundation upon which everything else is built. Sounds logical. But it raises some thorny questions. “Company Vision” is a problematic term What exactly do we […]
In my seminars and workshops on creative problem solving, I spend a lot of time emphasizing the value of being an idiot. Because in the all-important opening phase of the creative process, which I call “making a mess,” stupidity is your greatest asset. This is not the time for clarity, precision or cleverness. Rather it’s the time […]