#creative tension

[wouldwind]

Thundering Thursdays, ep. 2: Caged Cluster (21 Others)

~When you have an idea, and that idea spawns 21 other potential paths (and you can feel their potential, if not their form), and you reluctantly have to sequester all but one for just a little while, please! to concentrate your limited powers in just one committed direction, even if just for a moment or two...what will you find when you return? If?

This is why I had to learn to breathe; breathe, and let go of so many beautiful things (that weren't meant for ownership or cages).

[nothingbythebook]

How to craft meaning in a cloud of smoke

How to craft meaning in a cloud of smoke

i I began the year with three and a half exhilarating weeks at work, followed by a massive setback/roadblock/slam into a brick wall that had me screaming, not just into a pillow, but into my headset on a Teams call—my director slid off their headphones so as not to puncture their eardrums—and plunged me into severe existential angst. Ever have days like that, months like that? No, I figured…

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[muchweknow]

COVID Diaries Week 42: Constraint.

COVID Diaries Week 42: Constraint.

This is optimistic Jonathan writing. COVID provides us with constraints. We can lean in to those constraints, and thereby realign perspective. We can drive breakthrough. I have been watching / listening to NPR’s Tiny Desk series – a brilliant reimagining of concerts, executed around a tiny desk in the NPR office. With the pandemic, they have been doing at home tiny desk concerts instead – the…

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Creative Workplaces.

Creative Workplaces. We need tension/abrasion. We need agility. We need resolution. #HeadHeartHand

I was recommended to watch Linda Hill’s TED Talk about innovative workplaces and teams.

She and her team determined successfully creative workplaces had an interplay of creative abrasion, agility, and resolution. Remember, creativity is the killer app – it is one of the few remaining human skillsets keeping at bay our robot overlords.

This has resonance for me. When I think about when I did…

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Dis!Organize Ep. 47: Identify Your Kryptonite.

Dis!Organize Ep. 47: Identify Your Kryptonite.

I once developed a big digital transformation presentation for my Executive team. 

I needed some wow factor, some edge thinking that would surprise them and stop them in their tracks.

BLOCKCHAIN!

It kicked off an interesting discussion that went from bamboozlement, to curiosity, investigation, then eventually to “quote marks” before being swept out the door as detritus.

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Dis!Organize Ep.4: Creative Tension

Dis!Organize Ep.4: Creative Tension

As a communicator, I like this little bit of organizational physics:

for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction (and a social media overreaction)

If you want to change what goes on around you in the workplace, you can expect push back, so you need to embrace it, to use it as an activator. 

Consciously int…

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[muchweknow]

Dis!Organize Ep.3: Upset and Disorganize

Dis!Organize Ep.3: Upset and Disorganize Peter Drucker has an opinion.

In the previous episode I shared the original – Joseph Schumpeter – definition of entrepreneurship – creative destruction!

Now, let’s jump ahead in time, to the most famous management consultant of all – Peter Drucker.

In his seminal textbook on the subject, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles,…

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Dis!Organize Ep.2: Creative Destruction

Dis!Organize Ep.2: Creative Destruction

The term “entrepreneurship” was first defined by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, and its definition is utter genius: creative destruction!

Schumpeter argued that progress occurs in ‘cracks and leaps’ not “infinitesimal small steps” 

Daniel Isenberg, the author of Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid, says:

Entrepreneur…

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