Maybe thousands of followers are not as critical as a few real-life, 3D, corporeal, flesh-and-blood connections that see me and whom I see.
Personal progress thrives at a human scale
3 Reasons Imagination Belongs in Your Communication Kit
If you are only developing communication by logic, I’m here to tell you that you will be surprised at the dots you can connect by falling back into your dream state.
3 C’s That Combat Quiet-Quitting
Contribution, Community, and Challenge Work can drip with meaning. For example: when I teach, there are those moments when I break down a concept, and I see an “Aha!” light flash over my student’s head. Another example: in a casual work conversation with a colleague, I watch as they hear their own voice explaining something …
Sift and Synthesize
Sifting through notes, emails, memos, and research to find the really important stuff is a crucial part of the writing process. How do you find the story amidst the facts?
Does Your Brand Delight?
Today's consumers are drawn in by immersive storytelling that delights and entertains. Companies with products or services that don't have mass appeal can still cultivate captivating messaging. The key is identifying that special something within your story and being brave enough to bring it to life.
Good Fiction Jumpstarted Medtronic
Creating a discipline and culture around storytelling might jumpstart a few more creative folks who will lead us forward.
What Bowie & Queen’s Frenzied Night of Music-Making Teaches about Collaboration
"Under Pressure" shows the necessity of working together Most of us agree that collaboration, when it goes right, can be a positive and useful tool. Successful collaborations can get us further than we can go alone and provide rich fodder for high-quality written content. However, is collaboration necessary? Working together can be hard; do we …
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Words Build Stuff Between Us
Words destroy stuff we’ve built We all know this, don’t we? It’s perfectly obvious. If words were money (words are definitely not money), we would be aware of our spending to inform or persuade or entertain. And just like people who make a hobby of “going shopping,” spending our word budget every day would be …
3 (Science-Backed) Tips to Boost Your Creative Problem-Solving Skills
Ever felt stuck on a project or problem? Perhaps your normal efforts at finding a solution are getting you nowhere, and you start to feel a sense of hopelessness and panic as the deadline looms. We’ve all been there—that feeling when your memory fails you, your phone-a-friend is used up, and the ask-the-audience hasn’t worked …
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Could Your PowerPoint Be a Story Instead—Part 1?
Be brave. Tell a story at your next presentation rather than “and-ing” out sundry facts.