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.
Why Your Team Needs You To Be Precise
Articles about creativity
Discovering Your Productivity Profile
Discovering Your Productivity Profile
Discovering your productivity strengths, and weaknesses.
The Wonder Switch (with Harris iii)
The Wonder Switch (with Harris iii)
Awakening awe and possibility in your creating.
Invisible Solutions (with Stephen Shapiro)
Invisible Solutions (with Stephen Shapiro)
To innovate, you must train yourself to see the world differently.
Create The Future (with Jeremy Gutsche)
Create The Future (with Jeremy Gutsche)
How to innovate in uncertain times.
The Value Of Unnecessary Creating
The Value Of Unnecessary Creating
Don't expect your job to contain all of your creativity.
Leading a Creative Company Culture (with Matt Cooper and Sabrina Kieffer)
Leading a Creative Company Culture (with Matt Cooper and Sabrina Kieffer)
What does it take to create a culture in which creative people thrive? On this episode, we chat with Matt Cooper (CEO) and Sabrina Kieffer (COO) of Skillshare about what it takes to attract and retain talent, their personal leadership philosophies, and how they manage their busy work and personal lives as leaders of a fast-growing company.
Pursuing Your Creative Calling (with Chase Jarvis)
Pursuing Your Creative Calling (with Chase Jarvis)
How to build a daily creative practice.
Overcoming The Inertia Of No (with Kathryn Haydon)
Overcoming The Inertia Of No (with Kathryn Haydon)
Regardless of your role, you have to be creative every day. You have to solve problems under pressure, make connections, see patterns, and convince others. On this episode, Kathryn Haydon is here to share some insights into being more creative with tips from her book The Non-Obvious Guide To Being More Creative.
Feeling Undisciplined? Here’s Why.
Feeling Undisciplined? Here’s Why.
The three reasons that many creative pros struggle to get moving.
How To Keep Going (with Austin Kleon)
How To Keep Going (with Austin Kleon)
The importance of persisting in challenging times.
Loonshots (with Safi Bachall)
Loonshots (with Safi Bachall)
Some ideas are so crazy that "moonshot" doesn't even do them credit. "Loonshot" seems more appropriate. On this episode, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bachall is here to teach us how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries with insights from his new book Loonshots.
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?
Are You Fast Twitch or Slow Twitch?
Are You Fast Twitch or Slow Twitch?
There are two types of creative pros and idea generators.
Re-defining Success and Failure
Re-defining Success and Failure
Don't allow confusion about these terms to cause creative spinout.
Four Ways To Stoke Curiosity
Four Ways To Stoke Curiosity
I (strongly) agree that the future belongs to the curious, but would add that so does the present. Curious people are able to parse experience and recognize Reality behind reality; what’s truly going on in patterns and systems. They are able to ask great questions, and are willing to trade them in for better ones when they’re not satisfied with the answers. So with that in mind, how can we stay poised, leaning forward, and in a state of productive curiosity? On this episode, we explore four ways.
Chasing Dreams (and When To Quit)
Chasing Dreams (and When To Quit)
People love to encourage you to chase your dreams. They mostly mean well. What they don’t tell you is that you are probably going to fail a lot. And, the problem with pursuing a dream is that it’s hard to know when to quit. On this episode, we discuss the difficulties of giving up a dream, and how to move on when it's no longer a part of who you are.