Tag: Creativity
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If I’m ever stranded in a broken elevator with six strangers, I’d avoid divisive topics: politics, religion, AI, and pizza. Instead, I’d pass the time discussing one man: Homer Simpson. Homer and I go way back. He was there in 1st grade, when my school banned Simpsons from the dress code. He was there in my latchkey pre-teen years of cooking dinner for the family with the house to myself. And he’s been there in memes ever since, gingerly fading into boxwoods when things get awkward. Homer also happens to…
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Jim Collins published Good to Great in 2001, the year I graduated high school. I was, predictably, 18; less predictably, I read it. I was not an aspiring MBA at the time; my chosen career was music. However, more than any other book I read that year, Good to Great stuck with me. I was later to the party with another crucial cultural product of that era, Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers by the Wu Tang Clan, released in 1993. I first heard it 16 years later, in 2009.…
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Where’s all the great advice for teams? I read a lot of business books, and I have a big problem with most of them. They seem to think I’m a CEO and I’m not. I actually like that executive leaders have so much smart advice available. Good for them! It’s lonely at the top, but in a King-Kong-on-a-tower kind of way. But most of us aren’t in that reality. Most of us are in teams of people working for a mid-level leader who is a work in progress, not a…