by admin | Jan 15, 2015 | Creative, Creativity, Leadership
Creativity is a battle. It’s fighting for great and refusing to settle for good. It’s being willing to fight and do hard work to develop something new, better, different, unique, awesome. It is an honor to get to lead creative teams into battle every day. From time to...
by admin | Nov 25, 2014 | Church, Creative, Creativity, Leadership
I like to call it “chemistry experiments”. Any time we add a new style, personality, thinker, voice into our process it changes the chemistry of the team dynamic. I think if we are to stay fresh as a team we have a responsibility to always be tinkering...
by admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Creative, Creativity, encourage, inspiration, Leadership
We all love ideas. They are intoxicating but the reality is…most of our best ideas never get out of the starting gate. The hard truth is this – no one cares about your idea and it won’t likely get noticed unless you choose to do some things that...
by admin | Nov 11, 2014 | Church, Church Programming, Communication, Creative, Creativity, encourage, Leadership
We all know the importance of the ten commandments – the golden rule for how we’re supposed to live our lives. But what about a golden rule for our creativity? My friend and Blogger Andrew Zahn developed a less sanctimonious list than Moses, but it’s a list that can...
by admin | Oct 15, 2014 | Church, Creative, Creativity, encourage, inspiration, Leadership
When a new cast member is hired at Disney they are taken through “Traditions”, an orientation course designed to educate the cast member on the heritage of the culture that Disney has created. The expectation is set in this training that at Disney “We Create...
by admin | Oct 3, 2014 | Church, Church Programming, Communication, Creative, Creativity, encourage, inspiration, Leadership
There is a book in the bible, Joshua, and chapter 1 verse 9 has become an ethos for me. It revolves around having courage and the opposite of courage is fear. I hate fear. Fear intimidates and tries its best to impose itself on creative people. Fear does this...