by Carla Johnson | Nov 22, 2022 | Creativity, Innovation
November 22, 2022 Have you ever noticed how creative kids are? Young people see a cardboard box and it becomes a pirate ship. A stump in the woods is now a queen’s throne. Tie a swath of cloth around their neck and suddenly they’re a superhero. When’s the last time...
by Carla Johnson | Nov 8, 2022 | Creativity, Diversity, Innovation
November 8, 2022 What do Netflix, Dollar Shave Club, Apple, and Cirque du Soleil all have in common? According to William Kilmer, author of Transformative, these companies all did something none of their competitors could: transformed their business model to create...
by Carla Johnson | Nov 1, 2022 | Creativity, Diversity, Innovation
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 week off of work, which is a big deal for a farmer in the summer. Mom packed suitcases and stuffed sandwiches into fold-over...
by Carla Johnson | Aug 8, 2022 | Creativity, Innovation
August 9, 2022 “Fail fast.” “Fail forward.” “There’s no innovation and creativity without failure.” “Failure’s not an option.” A lot of language gets thrown around about failure in innovation. It all seems well and good until someone actually fails. Then? All hell...
by Carla Johnson | Jul 12, 2022 | Creativity, Innovation
July 12, 2022 Six weeks ago I started lifting weights back at the gym.Yesterday morning my daughter Abby came with me. I asked her why she was dressed in full-blown Rocky Balboa sweats and hoodie.”I’m hiding my pump,...
by Carla Johnson | Jun 28, 2022 | Creativity
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 meander off on a tangent. I was smart enough to know it wasn’t appropriate to try to wrestle him back to the...
