Category Archives: Creativity

Jan 16 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership

Today Matters

With the best record in the ’11-’12 NFL season, the 15-1 Packers were beat by the 9-7 Giants yesterday at Lambeau Field.

Surprised? You shouldn’t be.

Think of your products/services/ideas within the concepts taught in yesterday’s game…

  • So you have the best record thus far? So what?
  • So you’re the wild card? So what?
  • Yesterday’s trophies cant’ catch today’s passes.
  • Yesterday’s losses are not appropriate predictors of today’s outcome….neither are yesterday’s wins.
  • Guts win.
  • Home field advantage is meaningless when you don’t show up.

Our today’s do have a lot to do with our tomorrows, but our yesterday’s don’t have much say today. Frightening, but true.

Today, the whistle has blown and a new game has begun.

So what’s your record? 15-1? 9-7? All that is yesterday talk…meaningless today.

What’s important is today you are undefeated.

The old has gone and the new has come. This is the battle cry of Monday.

Godspeed.

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Jan 13 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music

Polish Your Lense

God, The Great Photographer, has made you lense-like.

He points you at things to unveil that which is not seen with the naked eye.

You can capture poetry in the midst of chaos.

You can grab music within a bunch of noise.

It’s your job to click and share the poetry and music.

We are anxiously awaiting the results from your aperture exposure.

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Jan 11 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Marketing

Unexpected

Let’s chat about the unexpected – in the good sense of the word.

Like when I ordered the wrong dish at my favorite restaurant. They brought me what I ordered, but it was not what I had traveled 1000 miles to have. Their response? A tasting tray of the finest dishes they offered, a bottle of champagne, and the dish that I was originally hoping for – all on the house. Unexpected.

Zappos loves this concept. My wife wanted to exchange her shoes I got her for Christmas. With one call they shipped the new shoes without having the other ones sent back yet. Unexpected. 48 hours later my wife had happy feet.

Or the delivery of  just because flowers. Unexpected – and the petals always seem to convey what our words can’t.

The unexpected finds us speechless in the moment, but leads to us not being able to keep our mouths shut about the story that unfolded.

Mastery of the unexpected will build your followers quicker than anything else you can pursue.

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Jan 06 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music

Business Symphony

Today, may we waltz well within the symphony of our businesses.

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Jan 05 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Music

Don’t Press Mute

My daughter is 10 months old. Currently, we have only a few conversations that she can understand. And most of them go like this….Can you dance??? Can you clap??? Want to play your piano??? 

Creativity and music is the only language we have right now between the two of us.

There are some things words cannot say.

As a leader, please do not mute the music or mock the poetry of those you are leading.

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