10 days ago by Mike

Good advice from Hugh: ( Link)

12 days ago by Mirjam

We always talk. Even when we don't speak. It's a funny thing. Melanie Kay makes art. Not just any of course, but one made from a "moral narrative". She tells stories by stitching visuals on recycled beer cans. Why does she do this? "The desire for my work to be meaningful influences the things that ...

24 days ago by hydle

“Sometimes being happy is just a choice. It’s just what you look for every day. In your work, in love, in friendships. It’s really about how you view your place on earth. You look for joy, and that’s what you’ll find. We all know people who make the ‘other’ choice. Nothing is good enough. They find ...

25 days ago by hydle

29 days ago by hydle

This is really about leadership. Leaders understand, often innately, what it takes to inspire action. Inspired action is a much different animal than top down directed action. Inspired people will walk through fire to achieve their goal. Directed people are in it for the paycheck. It was the differe ...

44 days ago by hydle

You have your individual creative moments, and you have your creative collaboration moments. They feed on each other. Even cartooning, as in my case, it’s a fairly lonely craft, however it too relies on the feedback loop I get from the people who help me run gapingvoid- Jason and Laura, namely. It’s ...

44 days ago by James

I love the way all too often we look around and we assign blame. I love the way that all too often we look around and imagine that the way we are doing things is because of someone else. I love the way we brood and complain and loath but do nothing to change things. I love all these things because w ...

61 days ago by Jay Deragon

Instead of businesses managing customer, customers will influence how businesses are managed.

61 days ago by Jay Deragon

The social web is creating a reversal in the process of managing customers. People learn from people and subsequently are avoiding influence from institutions rather the conversations of people, one to one to millions, have become the power of influence. These conversations are creating “ social mar ...

68 days ago by James

I love it when a student says to me, “that isn’t professional”! What is professional? I think professional is code for normal and normal is what? Status quo! I have said it before and will say it again, we need to teach our youth to embrace but explore ideas. Normal is a receipt for failure or medio ...