How To Have Better Meetings
How to honor the time of your team and your clients.
How To Have Better Meetings
Articles about The Accidental Creative
Know Your Values + Aaron Dignan on Brave New Work
Know Your Values + Aaron Dignan on Brave New Work
Do you have a matrix for important decisions in your life? How do you decide which path is correct when you're being pulled in multiple directions? On the first part of this episode, I share some insights from Herding Tigers to help you establish your core decision-making matrix.
Then, Aaron Dignan joins us to talk about his new book Brave New Work. He lays out a framework for re-imagining how organizations function in the accelerating and ever-changing marketplace.
How To Build Creative Confidence
How To Build Creative Confidence
How to be brave in the face of uncertainty.
Organize Your World With a Weekly Checkpoint
Organize Your World With a Weekly Checkpoint
Many creative pros charge through their work over days and weeks without ever stopping to assess whether they're on the right course. In this episode, I share a simple method for instilling a checkpoint into your life to help you ask critical questions about the work you're doing and the life you're living.
How To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
How To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Three kinds of goals that will help you achieve your ambitions.
How To Receive Negative (and Unfair) Feedback
How To Receive Negative (and Unfair) Feedback
How do you handle feedback? We need other people in our lives to tell us the truth. If we immediately get defensive when they tell us something we don’t like, we will lose key allies in our journey of growth. If you manage a team, your trigger happy ways will eventually destroy the culture of your team. On this episode, we share a few strategies for dealing with feedback in a healthy way.
Emotion at Work (with Liz Fosslien)
Emotion at Work (with Liz Fosslien)
Understanding the power of emotion in decision making and collaboration.
Digital Minimalism (with Cal Newport)
Digital Minimalism (with Cal Newport)
Carve out the space you need to do your creative work.
How To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How you spend your time is how you spend your life.
How To Plan Your Week For Max Creativity
How To Plan Your Week For Max Creativity
Do you have a good game plan for how you'll spend your week?
10 Things Creatives Wish Their Manager Knew
10 Things Creatives Wish Their Manager Knew
It is a reality that managers and creatives often speak different languages. Each has a different set of responsibilities and perspectives they are bringing to a project, and often the collision of these forces is enough to create massive waves within the organization. With that in mind, here is a list of statements that could begin to spark dialogue between organizational leaders and creatives.
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
On this episode, we share some principles for navigating to your sweet spot, and operating in your area of maximum effectiveness.
Are You Fast Twitch or Slow Twitch?
Are You Fast Twitch or Slow Twitch?
There are two types of creative pros and idea generators.
Getting Rid Of “Monkey Mind” (with David Allen)
Getting Rid Of “Monkey Mind” (with David Allen)
How to engage appropriately with your work.
Raise Your Game (with Alan Stein Jr.)
Raise Your Game (with Alan Stein Jr.)
How do talented people take their craft to the next level?
Be Fearless (with Jean Case)
Be Fearless (with Jean Case)
What are the common attributes of disruptors and changemakers?
My Personal Manifesto (and How To Write Your Own)
My Personal Manifesto (and How To Write Your Own)
Do you have a framework for making decisions?
Three Ways to Break Through In 2019
Three Ways to Break Through In 2019
Creative paralysis, or “block”, is often the result of inattention in a few key areas.
The Weight Of What’s Undone
The Weight Of What’s Undone
The weight of all of your incomplete projects and partial ideas can weigh heavily on you if you're not careful. On this episode, we discuss a few strategies for dealing with that weight.