Work should be fun. And it’s no fun to feel dread whenever a meeting appears on your calendar. As you’ve likely experienced, meetings can easily become a haunting abyss of lost time, productivity, and frankly – sanity. From my experience, there are three elements that help ensure some level of productivity is accomplished in a…

As long as our system encourages various types of plunder – rather than making work the easiest way to succeed – we will decline. – Leadershift by Orrin Woodward and Oliver DeMille It’s a golden truth that actions are drive by incentives. Common incentives are to seek pleasure and comfort while avoiding pain and discomfort….

No matter how hard you work, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, it won’t matter. I distinctly remember a time in my life when I was around 13 years old. I had been reading some biographies of successful people and thought I had hit an amazing realization. Enthusiastically, I told my brother this new…

I’m going to let you in on a bit of what I’ve been thinking recently. Inspired by a mixture of the books I’ve been reading, Creativity inc and The Last Safe Investment, and forced circumstance. Having the honesty to identify what is true today and the foresight for what you want to be true in…

Experiments are fact finding missions that inch you closer to truth. This is a phenomenal definition provided in the book Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull. This definitional is pure wisdom, along with the majority of the books contents, and I can’t help but smile when I read it thinking of the experiments I’ve run. When…