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Sparking Change without Burnout

I recently read an HBR article from Stanford professor Sarah A. Soule and IDEO director Bryan Walker entitled Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate. The article is full of great insights for leading a cultural change in order to transform your...

When You’re Helpless and Things Go Wrong

Life doesn’t always go the way we want it. In fact, sometimes it can feel like it rarely does. Unless you’re a spectacular hypnotist or sorcerer, you can’t control the decisions other people make. You can predict and persuade, but you can’t...

Are We Born into Greatness or Grown into It?

I’ve talked about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and its impact on creativity before. It’s a powerful model that changed the field of psychology. The needs at the bottom have to be met before the needs above it become relevant and accessible. Patrick...

Getting Unstuck

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here is more practical advice from the book UNSTUCK by Keith Yamashita and Sandra Spataro. If you’re feeling stuck and wonder what the issue is, the authors suggest looking at the system–instead of focusing on symptoms....

Getting Unstuck

When we start something, we envision progress being consistent and continual. A straight line up and to the right. But that’s not what happens. The reality is our efforts will have periods of highly productive progress, but also times when it’s a slog and...