The latest assertions on how we can bend workplace culture toward greater creativity and innovation.
I came across this article from the president of Wheaton College recently. In it, Philip Ryken gives an admittedly abridged list of ways church leaders can discourage artists. The information is applicable to other organizations, especially non-profits. If you're in...
Nobody likes to play the role of the incompetent fool (maybe the lovable fool, but not the incompetent one). Most of us also realize a person is rarely an expert when trying something new. These two factors combine to create a fear that may persuade us to forego...
When you type "10-speed bike reviews" into a search engine, you gave control to Google, Bing, et al. to show you (only) what they think is relevant. The same goes for the front page of Yahoo! or CNN.com, your favorite magazine or the evening news. Each of them pull...
Our beliefs may be the strongest forces shaping the way we live. Their effects are wide and varied beyond what I could ever hope to write, but here are four ways our lives are affected by beliefs. Placebo Effect Some beliefs are self-fulfilling prophecies. The simple...
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...
Creativity oozes out of disciplined love at work.
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...
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"...
"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...
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...
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