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How Travel Improves Creativity

October 25, 2022 I can still remember my first big travel adventure as a kid. It was the summer between first and second grade. My dad took a...

October 11, 2022 I remember the first day I walked into my engineering classes as a college freshman. Within a nano-second it was clear there was...

September 27, 2022 When was the last time someone at work asked you how you felt about a major change in the business? Has anyone ever asked you...

August 30, 2022 An idea needs six components to stick in people’s minds. Chip and Dan Heath’s research, published in their 2007 book Made to...

August 9, 2022 “Fail fast.” “Fail forward.” “There’s no innovation and creativity without failure.” “Failure’s not an option.” A lot of language...

July 12, 2022 Six weeks ago I started lifting weights back at the gym.Yesterday morning my daughter Abby came with me. I asked...

June 28, 2022 I had a boss early in my career that almost made me lose my ever-loving mind. Just when we needed to get down to business, he'd...

June 14, 2022 Did you know that 5.4 million companies opened last year? And, out of all these companies, there are thousands of...

May 31, 2022 Breaking down silos is more important than ever in order to transform business. We often see departments stay within their team and...

May 17, 2022 More than 60 years ago, Psychologist J. P. Guilford created the terms convergent and divergent thinking. Convergent refers to your...

May 3, 2022 When was the last time you saw someone use a Blackberry? Once one of the most popular smartphones in the world, Blackberry's stock...

April 5, 2022 You know how you have this image in your brain about what "creative" people look like? And the kinds of work they do? Yeah, that's...