Platforms Give You Pounceability
How to build platforms today that help you pounce on opportunities tomorrow.
How to build platforms today that help you pounce on opportunities tomorrow.
Surrounding yourself with the right people can help you do your best creative work.
How to plan your business without falling into the spreadsheet vortex.
How to avoid the trap of becoming a creativity-cranking, efficiency obsessed machine.
Need an insight now, but the juices aren't flowing? Here are a few ways to trigger creative accidents when needed.
Pamela Slim shares how creatives can make the leap from corporate life to entrepreneurship.
False assumptions can squash your creative mojo as you attempt to do great work.
Jonathan Fields discusses fear, uncertainty and doubt and how they can be turned into fuel for brilliance.
Derek Sivers has written a gem of a book on how to survive as a creative entrepreneur.
Overviewing the contents of the new book The Accidental Creative and how creative pros can build practices that increase their capacity to do great work.
Master Yoda offers up some wise words for those who want to do great work.
I connected with Aaron Goldfarb over e-mail a few months back and was immediately hooked by the ingenious promotional strategy he used to get the word out about his novel How To Fail: A Self-Hurt Guide. I caught up with Aaron to ask how he took his idea from an...
Diffusing the struggle between possibilities and pragmatics.
There's much discussion these days about changing the world. But why, and how?
Why do you do what you do? Is it for the perks, the attention or the paycheck? Probably at least somewhat. But what about the process itself? If you knew that you were going to spend the rest of your life doing your work and there would be no recognition, no public...
Don't leave brilliance on the table by confusing efficiency with effectiveness.
I gave my Possibility Thinking talk at a conference yesterday. It's always fun meeting new people, especially in industries I don't frequent or have much opportunity to engage with, and hearing the challenges and opportunities they're facing. Surprisingly (or...
You're creative, right? You've got great ideas. You're doing great work and gaining traction. Then suddenly, it seems like you can't get moving on your work. Ideas aren't flowing like they once were, and there is little movement on your projects. Have you just...
Over the years, we’ve had more than a few questions about the name Accidental Creative. Usually the responses go one of two ways: "What do you mean accidental? I’m very purposeful about what I do. I’m insulted and I shun anything else you have to say"…or "Hmm....
I have lately encountered many people who feel - for lack of a better term - frustrated and like they're under-performing. But the thing is, in many of these cases the cause - the root - of the issue isn't some workplace dynamic, lack of resources or lack of...