The latest assertions on how we can bend workplace culture toward greater creativity and innovation.
You're in a meeting and a seemingly brilliant idea enters your mind. Adrenaline starts to rush. You imagine what wonderful things might happen if your idea is executed. You can't wait to interject. "Wait a second. I just had an idea." Everybody stops and gives you...
You probably noticed I'm trying out a new WordPress template. Please be patient as I work out the bugs. Wrapping up the year, Here are some great reads from other blogs: Being Peter Kim: Wunderman on direct marketing. Or was it social media? A Nostradamesque...
Preconceptions often arise when you say someone is creative. A friend of mine even uses air quotes with that word. He also uses it as a noun, which is common in ad agencies. "You can do that because you're a 'creative'." The connotation isn't completely positive....
In case you haven't heard (or experienced it first-hand), Tulsa got pelted by an ice storm this week. It was the worst electrical outage in Oklahoma history. Our home was without power since Sunday. It returned last night, thankfully! Over 500,000 electrical customers...
A friend of mine was considering a position as pastor of a church. The church is an hour or so away. He declined the position because of the distance. My wife said the church probably would want someone who lived in their community anyway. She's right. Not only is...
Hope you had a great November. I'm glad to be back on my blog. Something is wrong with previous comments. They disappeared. I'm trying to fix it. Is feexed. During a recent lunch with a friend, he asked me, "What do you believe Dustin?" I thought for a moment, then...
I'm taking some time off. Blogging has become a weekly chore. Not because I don't like to write. I think it's because I don't like WHAT I write. I need some space to rethink what I'm doing here. Two things I know: 1. I don't like blogging in a vacuum. I want to...
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Kem posted: What is it with the human need to turn everything into an acronym? Really. I cut this out of a magazine I was flipping through last week about, of all things, CUSTOMER SERVICE.
My wife is a dental hygienist. We participated with her dental office in a fundraising walk supporting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation last weekend. Instead of simply showing up and walking, the dentists at Berkshire Dental Group decided they would bring...
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