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The Permission to Suck Manifesto
Somewhere in your personal history a decision was made to forgo a “real job”; one your parents would understand. Artist, creative director, writer, musician, photographer, actor, fine artist or pick one – you got attention for a talent or liked doing it so much that there was just no room to commit significant time to a profession less flattering gratifying. You became one of them sensitive types whose ego is vulnerably bonded to their work. True objective distance is pointless but it’s best to have a survival strategy.
Continue reading...Right or Left Brained – Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Monday, September 28, 2009
Jill Bolte Taylor has an astonishing story. At most it will change your perception of how you exist; at least it will make you think about how her research applies to you. If ever there was a “right” person to experience a stroke it was her.
Continue reading...Creatives & The Hope Economy: What Do We Do Now?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Ideas are cheap and plentiful and offered like opinions at a political rally. Talent is everywhere, making us indignant that those with it aren’t better off. Yet companies aren’t looking for talent so much as marketable talent nor ideas so much as marketable solutions. Marketable mediocrity is preferred over unmarketable brilliance or talent with low ROI. So should we be appalled when creativity is harvested like feed corn as soon as the network bandwidth (see “The Long Tail”) is wide enough to sift it as though panning for gold?
Continue reading...“Do It Because You Like It” – Dan Pink
Monday, September 14, 2009
Our default is to be risk reluctant and to think things through to a logical end with no deviation from task. We narrow our purpose and use our craftiness to get to the finish line as fast and as free from criticism as possible – we go with what we know when under pressure. Perform with all eyes on you and you’ll do what it takes not to fail, together with relying on a tested formula for success. ----> In his TED video presentation, Dan Pink gives an outstanding presentation – argument if you will – for what science asserts truly motivates us. Dan explains that there is a mismatch between what science shows and what business does. Business wants innovation, yet motivates us to be formulaic with a narrow view of problem solving.
Continue reading...Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Quoting Alan Greenspan: "I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant." In this Video, Rebecca Saxe explains how it's possible to understand Alan Greenspan. View video and read more.
Continue reading...Stepping back: What is creativity anyway?
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The word Creativity has become part of our business lexicon. It’s overused and misused. So much so that there is a cloud of vagueness that surrounds its meaning. Creativity has become scary since all the business leaders say we must be creative or die trying. What does that mean exactly? Who are these new ideas new to anyway?
Continue reading...Neil Young and a video interview by Charlie Rose
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Like his work or not, Neal Young is fearlessly devoted to his creativity. He does what he wants without looking back to check for followers. He is singularly devoted to his creativity; it's his life not his work. He doesn’t think about being different so that his work is easily marketable. Instead, he is genuine and protects his authenticity, therefore he’s different.
Continue reading...Let Go of the Damn Rope
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Benchmarking industry best practices are the chips you need to stay in the game. You've got to learn the skills to do the work. However, benchmarking is anti-creative. It’s a game of follow the leader. Hold on to that rope kids, we don’t want to leave you behind. Nice short video the BMW produced in "06 demonstrates innovation, engineering and art colliding.
Continue reading...The Creativity Cycle
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Originality > Innovation - a simple breakdown.
Continue reading...Innovation: Harder or Easier? Video
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The amount of information we have at our fingertips is overwhelming. Develop a nervous twitch and it's probably due to an involuntary dodging of sensory bombardment we've learned from an early age. Experience and knowledge is vital for innovation but does this amount of information help us or slow us down? Perhaps it's a wash.
Continue reading...Video Interviews with Creative Professionals
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