Fast Enough to Fly Away
On my way to campus for the first day of the fall semester, Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” came on the radio. Belting out an abuse ballad en route to teach a class about financial empowerment is strangely empowering. Nevertheless, […]
Because Environment Matters
I try not to post too much curated content here. Mostly I’m interested in sharing new content… Or at least new takes on content. The story on Amazon’s workplace in the New York Times deserves some attention, but I’m not […]
What’s To Come
Flexible Ambiguity & the Creative Entrepreneur Julie Taggart, the Dean of the School of Studio Arts at the Columbus College of Art & Design talks about “flexible ambiguity” in the context of managing change. What I love about this phrase […]
Think Like an Entrepreneur
This post by Elaine Grogan Luttrull originally appeared as a guest post for the Evans Consulting Group. Can entrepreneurship be taught? Or is it an inherent set of traits found in some, but not others? I’d argue there […]
Bad Habits of Arts Organizations (Third in a Series)
If you’re new to this series, we’ve been exploring Bad Habits of Arts Organizations, which was originally inspired by an article in Inc. Magazine by Lolly Daskal: “8 Deadly Ways to Kill Employee Motivation.” What can we say? Some of […]
Thriving Creativity in Columbus
Artists must live in a large metropolitan area to be inspired and taken seriously, right? Not so much. A new ranking conducted by Smart Asset listed the top 10 cities in the U.S. for creative entrepreneurs, and the majority on […]
July 2015 Tasks
Have you heard? You got an extra second last week. Twitter, Buzz Feed, and John Oliver were on it. I technically missed mine, although I spent it delightfully this holiday weekend surrounded by friends and family. It may be […]
Major Life Changes
Major transitions in life – geographical moves, job changes, key life milestones, and even personnel changes – cause upheaval, if not outright anxiety. They come with tremendous amounts of uncertainty, and although we occasionally thrive in uncertain situations (adrenalin and […]
Because Nice (Still) Matters
I am the opposite of a hoarder. I purge clutter with reckless abandon, assuming most of it is garbage (recyclable garbage, but garbage nonetheless). And most of it is. But sometimes something sticks with me. I can’t entirely explain […]
It’s About Time!
It sounds like such a harsh title doesn’t it? We don’t mean it in terms of exasperated finality. We literally mean this post is about time. We have been talking and thinking about time quite a lot lately. We’ve […]
