What difference does an infinite understanding of creative satisfaction make to being successful in this world? It’s not that time, talent, and treasure are not key factors… Read more ““I can get no satisfaction”…and how measuring your time, talent, and treasure could make a difference (part 2)”

The greater impediment to creativity is not the lack of resources or ideas (I’m thinking of the so-called “starving artist” syndrome), but rather that we tend to… Read more ““I can get no satisfaction”…and how measuring your time, talent, and treasure could make a difference (part 1)”

Are we losing our capacity for compassion? Unless we align ourselves with the greater narrative (work and story) of creativity, our capacity to be compassionate toward others… Read more “Are we losing our capacity for compassion? (Part 2) Beauty Beyond Brokenness”

We can know our hearts are closed to compassion for others; it is evident in a spirit of arrogance that feeds off putting others down, as a… Read more “Are we losing our capacity for compassion? (Part 1)”

Which is easier to tell: when the heart is closed but the mouth makes lofty claims, or, when the mouth is closed but the heart is genuinely… Read more “What’s a sign of a flourishing ecosystem? authenticity@work”

As creatives, we tend to live off the successes of what we create as we respond to the world around us. If we are not careful we… Read more “Creativity risking compromise?”

In this era of volatile complexity, innovation alone is not enough in the long run. What can we learn from a spider about resilient innovation? A spider… Read more “Resilient Innovation”

Both diet and exercise are important. Similarly, purpose is clarified when we not only earnestly accomplish the work entrusted to us but also avoid profanity, the ways… Read more “Mediating truth in the metaverse”

In the context of radical individualism, purpose is often associated with the freedom to pursue whatever it is that gives one meaning and a sense of direction… Read more “Rethinking purpose”