Essays on creative leadership,
culture, and the human side of work.
Published weekly, with an original illustration. Two series: Becoming and Advisory Notes.
When it came time to ask for the money the feelings that my work could be just a bit better would always lead me to ask for less than I should. Sound familiar? Your Negotiations for Creatives instructors, Jessica Knapp and I are working creative professionals. We both admit to lifelong struggles with the all-important…
I’ve been there. Have you? I’ve learned that the fear means I’m alive. Leave it to latter I’d think. Knowing I was just too afraid to face it. Then I’d roll over, give in and just not ask. Sound familiar? It’s an all to familiar experience for both Jessica and I. As creatives we’ve left money…
Hold those dates and please join us… With Covid, negotiations have become completely virtual. Jessica and I have always recommended strongly for conducting negotiations in person whenever possible. But here we are in a Covid dominated world. So, we created our seminar – Negotiations for Creatives – to help all of us become better at getting what we need in spite…
What really is the right thing to do? When tents fill the streets, And food banks empty Did our votes decide the thing, Or are we still riding the despair? Is it the virus that got us here? Or did the virus show us where we are? From loser to cult leader? From president for…
“It felt like a knife through my heart.” This from a client of mine who’d just had four people unsubscribe from his email list. Or this one from another client: “Every time she posts another success on Facebook, it feels like success is impossible for me. It’s as though her success is a direct result…
Marketers, designers, PR pros, and ad people: As communicators, what should we do with our world in turmoil? Make an ad? Launch a campaign, design a logo, create a brand, influence the influential? On the brink? The pandemic continues to infect and kill. Awareness of the effects of a militarized police force is on the…
Back to work the bosses proclaim. Our economy suffers under the impact of the virus. Far too many are forced to work in spite of the danger. All in the interest of making money for people who are already rich. It’s sad, it’s sickening to the soul and the body. What do you think?