On December 4th I will lead two 90 minute workshops at the Mindspring Consulting facility in Asheville. We’ll have a lunch session at 12, and then do it again at 6 for your scheduling convenience....

I've shared the first before because it is so very easy to apply to boost your creative performance: Researchers out of the University of Munich found that staring at the color green for 30 seconds dramatically...

A few years ago IBM asked 1,600 CEO’s—from 30 industries and 60 countries—what employee traits they most valued going forward in these fast paced and highly complex times? The number one answer was they were looking...

  Blue Ocean business strategies are directed towards the creation of a new market space that makes competitors irrelevant by creating new or significantly higher levels of value for customers, often while decreasing costs. It was...

The folks at Innovate Carolina have been putting on great conferences on innovation for a few years now, and they have another coming up in RTP in April. http://www.innovatecarolina.org/2017-conference-1/ The theme for this one is “Accelerating...

  It was the loving parents of Millennial babies who suction cupped ‘Baby on Board’ caution to car windows and manifested that same love when later they decided that all team members in youth sports deserved...

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you...

Right? And so what do we do about that? I found that being generous was generative in my entrepreneurial gigs--perhaps not 100% of the time, but much more often than not, so I tried to lean into...

Was there any point in the political discussion when you were excited about the stories of our future that your political party was telling you? Did the parties near simultaneous implosions prove they were hollow...

Our country is in trouble; the problems we face are so large we can’t even be honest with ourselves about just how big so many of them are. The only way—the only way—we can take on...