The Lazy Way of Setting Goals
Goal Setting is always one of the first activities I introduce, whether I’m working with undergraduate students or seasoned creative professionals. Rarely do those I work with think about goals for the first time with me. We’re taught to think […]
Portfolio Careers in Action
In honor of Labor Day, we wanted to spend some time thinking about all the work creative individuals do to make a creative career successful. This is not the glamorous stuff. This is everything else. And of course, all month […]
Top Ten Reasons to Learn – Portfolio Career Edition
Top 10 reasons to take Goal Setting for Portfolio Careers from Minerva Financial Arts, part of the Starting SMART online learning series. Because no one taught you how to build a creative career. Because writing “SMART” goals makes you feel […]
Spring Tax Update
It’s no secret that I love doing our taxes. I love the excuse to sit quietly, without interruption for a prolonged period of time. I love the excuse to look back on 2015. I love seeing how the business has […]
If It Bleeds, It Leads
There’s an old newsroom trope that is generally thought to have originated in a 1989 cover story for New York Magazine by Eric Poole. The piece, “Grins, Gore, and Videotape: The Trouble with Local TV News,” was a sweeping critique […]
GiveBackHack 2016
Last night GiveBackHack hosted the Sunday Night Presentations at CCAD. Nearly 200 members from the community joined us for 12 incredible presentations from teams who had researched, tested, iterated, and built sustainable ideas to improve the world during the 72 […]
Loving Your Money
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. And nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like an article on frugality, which is perhaps, why I absolutely adore reading the Sunday Times over coffee every Sunday morning. This week, “Pinching Pennies in the Right Places” […]
Lessons from Lark’s Business of Art
In October of 2012, Playwrights of New York and The Lark hosted the first Business of Art workshop, a two-day playwrights-only boot camp that focuses on business and financial aspects of running a creative career. As we conclude our […]
MLK Remembrances
I love MLK Day, particularly as celebrated by President Obama. I love that we focus on volunteerism and giving back. I love that we focus on service. For service, above all else, is what Dr. King represented to me. […]
Columbus CEO: Business Lessons from the Creative World
We are thrilled about Elaine’s latest guest blog in Columbus CEO Magazine where she explores how business professionals can learn from their creative industry counterparts. Take a peek below and keep reading at Columbus CEO… All over Columbus, organizations are […]
