Archive of posts from July 2018

Daily Post #0232 • July 31 2018 • Resilience

A day in the life ​

What’s your day look like?

Daily Post #0231 • July 30 2018 • Experience

Break your own industry ​

Most of us can think of something that could totally change an industry, breaking the way things are done today, for the better. Like self-driving cars for taxi companies. Many fear it:

Daily Post #0230 • July 29 2018 • Narrative

You were probably right all along ​

Someone doesn’t Iike your work.

Daily Post #0229 • July 28 2018 • Craft

If it’s not one thing ​

It need not be another.

Daily Post #0228 • July 27 2018 • Momentum

Maps, muscles, and motor racing ​

What do these three things have in common?

Daily Post #0227 • July 26 2018 • Experience

The parts of our brains we can’t describe ​

…are all the parts that really matter.

Daily Post #0226 • July 25 2018 • Experience

The clearest communicator wins ​

What if your price and your value are both great?

Daily Post #0225 • July 24 2018 • Narrative

Pre-redemptive stories ​

Redemptive stories are where something bad is somehow used for good.

Daily Post #0224 • July 23 2018 • Experience

Breaking industry stereotypes

Ever notice how the best in an industry seem to defy industry stereotypes?

Daily Post #0223 • July 22 2018 • Craft

“That’s incorrect”

If we can’t say this, there’s a problem.

Daily Post #0222 • July 21 2018 • Craft

We’ll do it live

Does our work benefit from doing it live (together) or anytime (independently)?

Daily Post #0221 • July 20 2018 • Experience

I’m not your market ​

It’s not always rude to shut the door on people.

Daily Post #0220 • July 19 2018 • Craft

New and improved ​

We see this written on products all the time.

Daily Post #0219 • July 18 2018 • Craft

Scheduling bright ideas ​

Are you training your brain to have good ideas, or to agonize over decisions?

Daily Post #0218 • July 17 2018 • Craft

What game shall we play instead?

​Do you use social media?

Daily Post #0217 • July 16 2018 • Craft

With luxury comes responsibility

What is ‘luxury’?

Daily Post #0216 • July 15 2018 • Experience

Forget the ‘personal brand’

When did “being a good person” become “building a personal brand”?

Daily Post #0215 • July 14 2018 • Craft

Empathy is your R&D department

Every time you write a word or share an image with a prospect or customer, we have a choice to make:

Daily Post #0214 • July 13 2018 • Momentum

A work in progress

“In progress” means it’s not finished:

Daily Post #0213 • July 12 2018 • Momentum

A work in progress

“In progress” means it’s not finished:

Daily Post #0212 • July 11 2018 • Narrative

“It’s like you know me better than I do”

When our audience can say that, we’re already half way there.

Daily Post #0211 • July 10 2018 • Craft

Draw your idea for me

Does your idea make sense?

Daily Post #0210 • July 09 2018 • Momentum

Innovation is asking more questions

I want to visit England more often.

Daily Post #0209 • July 08 2018 • Craft

Your only idea is a bad idea

And it could be our undoing, if we let it.

Daily Post #0208 • July 07 2018 • Momentum

Stop staring at the horizon

Vision isn’t about staring at the horizon and trying to march there. That’s how visions die.

Daily Post #0207 • July 06 2018 • Experience

No more opt-ins

“What should I make so that people will buy my thing?”

Daily Post #0206 • July 05 2018 • Craft

Don’t spoil it

You’ve given it our best shot.

Daily Post #0205 • July 04 2018 • Narrative

We speak two languages

And everyone around us speaks one.

Daily Post #0204 • July 03 2018 • Craft

When you can’t decide

Sometimes I can’t decide.

Daily Post #0203 • July 02 2018 • Experience

The company is the product

What if your company was the product, not the body of work it creates?

Daily Post #0202 • July 01 2018 • Narrative

Empathy isn’t what you thought

When you think about it, “putting yourself in other peoples shoes” isn’t really empathy at all:

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