The desire for creative team members has never been higher. As constraints grow for organizations, the importance of having people who can think differently grows exponentially. Finding creative people is difficult, but keeping them is even harder.   There is one...

I wish when I had started working in creative fields someone would have pulled me aside and explained some of the traps that would try to keep me from succeeding. Traps like getting so busy I forget to pay attention to the details of the plan or that when I succeed I...

There are so many variables in our lives that we can’t control – things like weather, nature, or other people’s actions or intentions. But there are some things that we have total control over and one of them is how we do our work. We have control over what we do, how...

Creativity is more muscle than it is magic. When we work it out, it gets stronger and when we fail to exercise it, we get weaker. The act of creating takes sweat and effort. A series of studies done on some of the most creative “geniuses” in history has identified a...

Your best stuff, the art that matters to you and to others, only gets created in the balance of friction and adoration. As artists we all need to have both forces present in our lives. Friction is good. It challenges us. It forces us to think different, work...

“The edge of uncomfortable is where you find greatness.” – Unknown Uncomfortable can look like a lot of things: Being pushed to do something you didn’t think possible. A lack of resources. A sideways teammate. Relationships. Being out of our comfort zone. Breaking...

“I have an idea.” These 4 words maybe the most powerful 4 words in our language. But what makes an idea good instead of crazy? And is a crazy idea a bad idea? I think we have so many descriptors that we place before the word “idea” that we don’t even know what is what...