Feb
05

It’s Halftime in America…

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Clint Eastwood was remarkable in the halftime Chrysler Commercial. Wow. So, what's our strategy, America, for the second half? Is it going to be about accepting and learning from a new breed of leader? One who is socially conscious ethically bound creatively fueled and astonishingly- efficient? The not for-profit-world, and the … [Read more...]

Dec
21

Born Like an Artist, Evolve Like an Artist, Bloom Like an Artist

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While it is easy to look at this cartoon strip created by Norwegian artist, Ida Eva Margrethe Neverdahl, and see it for its "face" value, I would encourage you to look deeper. Ida shares a great visual story, in my opinion, about how we discover our "emotional" elephant and learn to ride it. ( For more explicate training instructions … [Read more...]

Oct
25

An Artists Journey: Onward is Best

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So often you'll hear an artist say.. "becoming an artist wasn't a choice but a gift".  And yet, with as short as life is, sometimes we need to be reminded why this particular gift was selected for us to receive in the first place. Our gifts were not given to us for our self serving pleasures. Nor to torment us. Or to use for the sole … [Read more...]

Sep
13

Imagination, Creativity and Productivity

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How can we improve the chances that productivity will flow from our imagination or our creativity?  For starters we need to think of imagination and creativity as distinctively different. These two words should not be used interchangeably. Think of it like this. If you can visualize something in your mind- the famous person you hope … [Read more...]

Aug
17

Reimagining America

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We have lost our imagination. That's what's wrong with America. The leaders (or want to be's) of our great country have no vision or language to help us reimagine our world. Our founding fathers envisioned what America could be and devised a language- our constitution-  for it. It was a brave imaginative act. It was through new shared … [Read more...]

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