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Where Creative Pros Get Stuck
At some point in your career, you will feel stuck. Not stuck because you can’t come up with an idea for a project, but stuck in the sense that you feel like you don’t know how to go to the next level. How do you continue to grow, to develop your voice, and create more impact?On this episode, we share the two common places where creative pros get stuck, and how to continue moving up the curve into rare air where you can do work worth noticing.
Moving From Control To Influence
Your job as a manager is to unleash the brilliance of your team, not to showcase your own.
Finding Your “Sweet Spot” Of Effectiveness
Where do you add the most value?
A Framework For Choosing The Best Idea
Make the decision in a way that everyone can be onboard with.
Navigating Your Team Through Failure
After a failed project, don’t just move on. Do this instead.
Create Work That Lasts (Interview for Chase Jarvis LIVE)
A few weeks ago I had the chance to travel to LA for an interview with one of my favorite creators and entrepreneurs, Chase Jarvis. Chase is an incredible photographer, and is the co-founder of CreativeLIVE, a platform designed to help creative pros to learn new skills from the best in the business. In this interview, we cover everything from personal habits and rituals, to how to deal with creative doubt, to how to lead creative people effectively.
PODCASTS
Brilliance Demands Bravery
What does it mean to be brave? We often think of those people who muster one huge, courageous act of the will to overcome an obstacle. However, bravery can also mean a steady, daily push to take small risks in the face of uncertainty.
On this episode, I share my talk from a Creative Mornings gathering about why bravery is so critical to creative pros.
Save The World Through Design (with Katie Patrick)
On creating a “Fitbit for the planet”.
The Cauldron Of Creative Conflict
Have you ever said something in a meeting that you didn’t expect to? It happened to me last week, except it wasn’t a meeting, it was in a speech given at the Global Leadership Summit to over 400,000 leaders and influencers across the world. The particular line was, “Brilliance is forged in the cauldron of creative conflict.”
Fortunately, I believe this to be true to the core of my being. You have to fight for brilliant work. And when you collaborate, that means having healthy conflict with others too. On this episode, I share a few ideas for how to engage in healthy creative conflict with your team.
The 10 Stories That Great Leaders Tell (with Paul Smith)
On this episode, we talk about the power of story, and how leaders can use it to help those on their team do better work, stay aligned, and produce great work each day. Our guest is author Paul Smith, whose new book is called The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell.
Three Principles For Achieving Your Goals
We are wired for two conflicting things: comfort, and conquest. To achieve goals, we need to disrupt the comfort instinct long enough to experience our first successes on the path to the goal. On this episode, I share three core principles for doing the hard work necessary to get moving on your goals.
Jason Fried of Basecamp
Why you should build the company that you want to work for.
Why Community Is Critical For Creative Pros
We tend to think of creative work as a solo sport. It’s something that, in large part, has to be accomplished alone. However, the extent to which we stay connected to others can play a large role in our personal creative process, and in helping us tackle our goals. On this episode, we share three core strategies for developing relationships that will help you thrive personally, and in business.
Three Tensions Every Creative Pro Faces
When you do any kind of difficult, problem-solving, creative work, tension is inevitably present. How you deal with that tension will determine whether it makes you stronger and more focused, or whether it sucks the wind out of your sails. On this episode, we share three tensions that every creative pro encounters daily, and how to deal with them while recognizing that they’re not going away.
A four-hour masterclass in creative leadership.
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SPEAKING
What does it take to produce brilliant creative work over time? In this talk, Accidental Creative founder Todd Henry speaks at the STORY Conference about the importance of uncovering productive passion in your work.
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