If you keep changing how you do business — or, even more drastically, keep redefining your business — your employees are likely to just give up after a while. If there is no consistency in your company they will find it hard to know what to do. Take a week’s vacation, then come back and […]

Your employees are more likely to be creative, energetic and innovative when they have some sort of inspiration. Maybe something to get them into the right frame of mind, maybe something to spark some specific ideas about visuals or textures or sound, inspiration can be a starting point, or a nudge in a particular direction. […]

So, we are just going to ask the question that everyone on Facebook is asking today: where is my floating car? Today is the day that Marty McFly is supposed to appear in a time machine, powered by 1.21 gigawatts running through a flux capacitor, and we still do not have hoverboards and floating cars […]

Google has a well-known policy of requiring its employees to spend 20% of their time at work on projects of their own. This is not designed for employees to do outside work on company time, but instead is supposed to be something good for Google, something outside the norm, something original. Of course, Google is […]

Moving from being an employee to being a leader is a big transition, and in many ways it is like moving into a new line of work. That change becomes even more obvious as you look at creative industries. The best people to lead Creatives often started out as Creatives themselves. Sure, you can bring […]