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DAILY CREATIVE PODCAST
What you do every day matters most .
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You need other people in your life to help you see yourself fully. You only see a certain perspective, but people around you can help you see oppor- tunities for growth and advancement that are invisible to you. But by default, community doesn’t naturally come to you. You have to go to community. You have …
A question I often encourage managers to ask of their team is: “What was the last risk you took, and how did you feel about it?” This question reveals an important understanding about collaboration: everyone has a different tolerance for risk. What feels risky to you may feel completely safe and predictable to someone else …
“What do you want your tombstone to say?” I remember going through this exercise a number of years ago as a participant in a team-building exercise. Everyone struggled to come up with a few words that would describe how they wanted to be remembered after they die. What words could be carved into a hunk …
Some creative teams devolve over time into a culture of blame. A few signs that this may have already infiltrated your team include the following: ► A general lack of accountability: If it’s difficult to identify the single point of accountability for delivering a project or if there seems to be ambiguity about responsibilities on …
I once had a wonderful conversation with Richard Hytner, who was the former global deputy chairman of advertising great Saatchi and Saatchi. He told me that he spent many years of his professional life striving to climb the ladder and become the person in the organizational spotlight. He wanted to be the CEO of a …
How do you know when an idea is the right one? One framework that I’ve taught creative pros uses three aspects of the idea, rated on a scale of one to ten, then discussed with the team. (This also works for solo projects, by the way.) 1. Effective: How effectively does the idea solve the …
You know that feeling when things suddenly make sense in a way they didn’t just a few moments before? When you see things more clearly and all the dots connect? It’s like there’s a sudden clarity that’s always been there, but you never noticed. You’ve seen through the looking glass. You’ve peered through to the …
I once asked world-famous DJ Z-Trip how he discovered his voice as an artist, and he used the analogy of a tree. He said that when he began his career, he—like everyone else—was climbing the trunk of the tree because it is the safest and most stable part. However, as he began to progress in …
Fear In his book The Now Habit, author Neil Fiore describes an experiment in which someone is shown a wood plank on the floor and asked, “Do you think you could walk the length of that plank?” Of course, they answer yes. “Now, imagine that I suspend the plank one hundred feet in the air between …
Break the Glass If you walk into any public building, you’ll see a glass panel on the wall containing a fire extinguisher etched with the words “break glass in case of fire.” Although fires are incredibly rare, having a fire extinguisher handy when one breaks out can make all the difference between a minor blaze …
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