DUST!N ← Casual Fridays

Mattering in the Long Run 3

Mar

2013

Living day-to-day carries with it the danger of not amounting to much in the end. The rat race won’t do any of us much good when the cheese runs out. And at that point it’s too late to question if it was ever about the cheese to begin with. To complicate things, the race is ...

The Ooze 3

Jan

2013

Creativity oozes out of disciplined love at work.

A Word of Encouragement 1

Jan

2013

A word of encouragement may be the greatest placebo in existence. It costs (practically) nothing, but may be the most valuable gift someone receives. It changes nothing, yet can change everything. Perhaps it is so powerful because it isn’t a placebo at all. It is a vehicle for belief. If there is someone in your ...

On Being a Creative Thinker 7

Nov

2012

I have often described myself as a creative thinker. It’s not an exercise in self-aggrandizement, it just happened to be the quickest way I could sum up how I love brainstorming, white boards, quizzical questions and looking at things differently. “Creative thinker” has become somewhat tired as a descriptor though, and to think creatively may ...

Willful Suspension of Disbelief

Oct

2012

“Pfft. That’s not believable.” I have found myself saying this during a movie or play that just didn’t ring true. And if we’re honest with ourselves, at the beginning of ANY performance we could cross our arms and furrow our brows in absolute refusal to believe the artists’ portrayals. What a loss this would be. ...

Micro Messages 1

Oct

2012

There’s a lot of talk about Story today. Story with a capital “S.” We focus on the big story, but it is hard to write. It seems daunting to write our big “S” Story. We struggle to answer if someone asks us to summarize our life story, tell them what our business is all about ...

Global Leadership Summit – Bill Hybels 1

Aug

2012

I have been spending the last few days at Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit. I thought I would share just a few of the brilliant thoughts shared by leaders. Today I’ll start with Bill Hybels, Sr. Pastor of Willow Creek Church. Bill Hybels The calling of a leader is to stay courageous. Entropy will ...