Innovating Through Artistry
Perhaps like me, you are constantly working to clear -- your physical space, your head, your email inbox, your to-do list -- so that you have an uncluttered springboard from which to leap creatively forward. I call it trying to get current. It's hard to invent something new when you feel cluttered with unfinished business. It's hard to … [Read more...]
Students are so overscheduled they can't think straight in Race to Nowhere, a recent documentary I screened with a community group of questioning parents and frustrated educators last weekend. Between the pressure for kids, earlier-than-ever, to compete to get into the "right" college and on educators to teach to the tests that may or may … [Read more...]
As we start a new year (and, some would say, a new decade) as an already reeling country now reeling even more from the shooting of a Congresswoman, I'm grappling with the state of the United States. There is no question that we are poorer than we were when I grew up, and there is much evidence that we are more divided and pessimistic … [Read more...]
"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes no difference what people think of you." ~Rumi As 2010 ends and we look ahead to a new, unknown year, I want to use this flicker of a moment of your at-least-partial attention to prod you to decide, right now, to take something creative on. In this blog over the past couple of … [Read more...]
"There is never a day we come in and there are only a few things we need to do," explains an Obama staffer in a Newsweek cover story last month about how overwhelming presidential responsibilities have become. The story makes clear that, for the President and people working with him, there is not enough "bandwidth," not enough "time to … [Read more...]
I had the doubly natural pleasure last month of facilitating a retreat for the Nature Conservancy in lovely Door County, Wisconsin. Like most organizations, this leading advocate for preserving lands and water is looking for innovative ways to more effectively accomplish their mission and attract more supporters (this was the marketing … [Read more...]
What do you picture when you see leaders of the Federal Reserve Bank coming together for a meeting? Could your frame be wrong -- or at least need to be adjusted? What about the frame through which you define yourself or view the possibilities in your own life? I was back giving a creativity session to nearly 100 leaders of the … [Read more...]
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