Why Your Team Needs You To Be Precise
If you want your team to do bold, creative work, you must take the first risk by giving them clear, precise direction. Here are a few ways to do so.
How To Release Control Of Your Team’s Work
Let your team do what you hired them to do.
Moving From Control To Influence
Your job as a manager is to unleash the brilliance of your team, not to showcase your own.
The Death of Downtime
Are we sacrificing the brilliant work that we're capable of in order to satisfy our urge to feel connected?
Everything Great Was Once Not
How to prevent comparison from paralyzing your productivity.
Defining Your Sacred Space
Why we each need a space in which to do our life's work.
Write A Resignation Letter, But Don’t Deliver It
How to deal with frustration in the workplace.
End With The Beginning In Mind
A simple strategy for overcoming procrastination and creative block.
Trophies, Metrics, and Great Work
How your metrics for success determine the choices you make about life and work.
10 Questions That Will Help You Find Your Voice
A few ways to begin to identify your unique contribution to the world.
Are You Too Comfortable?
Why hovering around our comfort zone can be a creative death sentence.
Three Invaluable Lessons From Caine’s Arcade
What a nine year old teaches us about focus, fun, and craft.
Which Productivity Type Are You?
Understanding our "productivity type" can make us more effective.
Increase Effectiveness With This Simple Morning Ritual
Start your day with this ritual to jump-start your productivity.
5 Books That Could Change Your Creative Game
Five lesser-known books that could alter how you approach your work.
Justine Musk on Creativity and Finding Your Inner Freak
A conversation about making great things and discovering your voice.
Increase Productivity By Clustering
The three pockets of time that will unleash your best work.
Re-defining Failure (And Success!)
How we define two simple concepts can ultimately lead to brilliant work or paralysis.
The Value Of a Regimen To Creativity
A defined regimen clears the path for your best creating. Do you have one?
5 Ways To Shake Up Your Creative Process
It's easy to fossilize around bad creative habits. Here's how to shake them up!
Would You Kill Your “Precious”?
Is your obsession with an idea killing your productivity?
25 Questions To Ask When You’re Stuck
Don't just sit and stare at your problem! Ask questions to break out of a rut.
Becoming Like The People You Spend Time With
Our relationships can either bring out the best or the worst in our creating.
Everyone Gets A Trophy?
Has the emphasis on childhood "self-esteem" negatively impacted creativity?
Dr. Seuss’ Timeless Wisdom on Curiosity
Dr. Seuss sets the path for curious creatives everywhere.
Epipheo Studios: Creating Epiphanies Through Video
A chat with Epipheo Studios about inspiring action through art.
Four Ways To Stoke Your Curiosity
Curiosity is critical to the creative process, because it's the fuel that drives our intuitive leaps.
What Do You Do When You’re Working?
What do you do when you're flat-out, full-tilt, walking-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss working?
Getting Ideas By Getting Messy
Is our over-emphasis on organization actually hindering our creativity?
To Be More Productive, Produce Something
All that will stand - as a monument to your life's work - is what you actually produce.
The Gift of Gratitude: Take Time to Say Thank You
A simple thank you note can spark a world of creative gratitude and focus.
Four Ways To Re-claim Your Creative Energy
Energy is your most valuable resource. Are you managing it well?
How Competition Can Foster Creative Growth
Contrary to popular belief, healthy competition can be a good thing.
Re-Factoring: A Smart Way to Refine and Conquer Whitespace
Command your art by dividing and conquering whitespace.