Mindsets & Growth
The perils of a chain reaction
Our well-intentioned but misguided desires to root for the independents.
A couple of times a week Iâll walk with
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Stage Left
22,000 songs in your pocket
Back in 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs uttered his now legendary one line pitch for
a new product his company
Stage Left
The Circuit
The challengesâââand the importanceâââof being out on the road, in the middle,
on the circuit as a creative
Learning Innovation
Are you running a meetup or a workshop?
The corridor of uncertainty, and not getting what you came for.
A few weeks ago I ran a pilot of
Learning Innovation
Back to business school: the new case study
Almost every form of school and education is getting questioned, queried,
unbundled, and rethought.
The same is happening in business
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Freelancer to Entrepreneur: The Forest, The Mountains, and the Water
Imagine a landscape. It has a forest on one side and a mountain range on the
other. The two are
The Tension
Labels In, Labels Out
Weâve always had labels in one way or another.
First, the label tended to be the same as the
Music Industry
The Music Industry's 73%
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the top 1% of musicians
accounted for 60% of concert revenues
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Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Going Solo? Youâre still in the Rat Race
Many of us strike out as consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs, or artists to
escape the rat race â to get away from
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Why we need to get rid of ideas
On this weekâs episode of his Akimbo podcast, Seth Godin answers a listener
question about focusing â more specifically, how
Stage Left
Becoming a wizard
Regular readers may know two of my favourite podcasts are âThe Momentâ with
Brian Koppelman, and Seth Godinâs âAkimboâ
Battle Scars
Empty Tank
On June 1st 2015 I broke out alone again.
This month marks the end of the fourth year as an
Coaching
Coaching for creative inspiration
A key component of a coaching certification program is to get coaching.
Not âgetâ as in âunderstandâ, but âgetâ as
Adventures...
Adventures #29: Darwin discoveries, deep fakes, and deep space
Coaching
Overrated Mentors, Underrated Coaches
Mentoring and coaching often get thrown into one bucket. On the surface they
sound pretty similar; practices that help people
Mindsets & Growth
The Rotation
Menlo Innovations is a software company based in Ann Arbor.
Theyâve become well known for staying true to their
The Tension
Ghosted: from URL to IRL
This week the video conferencing company Zoom announced its IPO.
In the Forbes profile of its founder Eric Yuan, this
The Tension
Two Tunnels
Imagine your primary area of focus as a tunnel youâre digging. You may be
digging into clay, sand, soil,