Bucket Makers and Bucket Fillers
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Bucket Makers and Bucket Fillers
Articles about Teams
AC Podcast: Selective Ignorance of Feedback
AC Podcast: Selective Ignorance of Feedback
You cannot (CANNOT!) listen to everyone. To be brilliant, you have to know who you are serving, and focus on moving the needle with them.
Be Your Own Champion
Be Your Own Champion
No one is going to beat a path to your door. Share your ideas, fight for them, and do whatever you need to in order to ensure that your work gets a fair audience.
AC Podcast: The Leader
AC Podcast: The Leader
There are four key leadership mistakes that can mess with a creative team's mojo. Are you making them?
AC Podcast: Legacy
AC Podcast: Legacy
Have you considered how legacy systems and ideas might be inhibiting your creative process and ultimately your effectiveness?
AC Podcast: riCardo Crespo on Comfort Zones
AC Podcast: riCardo Crespo on Comfort Zones
In this informal conversation, riCardo Crespo shares his thoughts about how to avoid your comfort zone so that you can do your best work.
AC Podcast: Confidence vs. Ego
AC Podcast: Confidence vs. Ego
There's a fine line between engaging in your work with confidence and engaging in your work with an inflated ego.
Dealing With A Crushing Workload
Dealing With A Crushing Workload
Workloads and expectations are increasing. It’s not a cliché, it’s a fact. How will you deal with it?
Four Fatal Mistakes Creative Leaders Make
Four Fatal Mistakes Creative Leaders Make
When the pressure is on, and uncertainty is rearing its ugly head, there are traps that even the most experienced leaders fall into.
Dancing With Uncertainty
Dancing With Uncertainty
Uncertainty is an uncooperative dance partner. You have to move in concert with it to do your best work.
Why Ideas Don’t Get Executed
Why Ideas Don’t Get Executed
The generation of a great idea is just a small precursor to the real work - the execution.
How To Defuse A Bad Idea
How To Defuse A Bad Idea
There’s an often cited principle about creativity that states “there’s no such thing as a bad idea.” It’s wrong. There are bad ideas - terrible ones - and they can explode and destroy the vibe of a meeting or project if not dealt with swiftly and decisively.
Would You Stoop Over To Pick Up A Penny?
Would You Stoop Over To Pick Up A Penny?
Healthy people, and healthy teams, stoop over to re-claim what is valuable, even when it's inconvenient.
Write A Resignation Letter, But Don’t Deliver It
Write A Resignation Letter, But Don’t Deliver It
How to deal with frustration in the workplace.
Becoming Like The People You Spend Time With
Becoming Like The People You Spend Time With
Our relationships can either bring out the best or the worst in our creating.
AC Podcast: Value Creep
AC Podcast: Value Creep
Creative pros are perpetually asking the question "is this enough?" and "am I finished?" This is largely because of the tension between possibilities and pragmatics, and specifically time vs. value. In this podcast we offer up a few strategies for dealing with the perpetual need to produce more value, otherwise known as value creep.
AC Podcast – 5 Essentials of Creative Leadership
AC Podcast – 5 Essentials of Creative Leadership
Five principles that set teams up for brilliance.
How To Eliminate 90% of the Tension Between Creatives and Managers
How To Eliminate 90% of the Tension Between Creatives and Managers
Diffusing the struggle between possibilities and pragmatics.
The Art of Possibility Thinking
The Art of Possibility Thinking
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...
“Be a Laser Not a Lighthouse” & Other Creative Leadership Essentials
“Be a Laser Not a Lighthouse” & Other Creative Leadership Essentials
A few weeks ago I was privileged to hop a plane to St. Louis to spend some time with a great group of creatives wrestling through organizational growth and how to establish new systems to deal with it. After a morning session with the large group, I had the chance...
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