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Intensity Not Relaxation Inspires Creative Courage
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Intensity Not Relaxation Inspires Creative Courage

ByJeffrey Davis

“It was clear…that what kept [top performers in flow] motivated was the quality of experience they felt when they were involved with the activity. This feeling didn’t come when they were relaxing, when they were taking drugs or alcohol, or when they were consuming the expensive privileges of wealth. Rather, it often involved painful, risky,…

Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
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Get Back to Where You Once Belonged

ByJeffrey Davis

What led 350 innovators, creatives, and change-makers from around the globe to show up at a summer camp ground just north of New York City for 4 days? It’s a fair question. Sometimes we can say why we’re drawn to a place or an event. Sometimes, we can’t.  A renowned painter and photographer from France…

Business as Art – The Rising Movement
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Business as Art – The Rising Movement

ByJeffrey Davis

Hyperbole repels me. Still, call it a movement. A wave. A surge. A revolution. An evolution. A tide of creative people and business people are driving one another to do business as unusual. To do business as art. We’re not bonded by trade or profession. We’re bonded by hunger. We hunger for something different. We want…

How a feeling became a manifesto became a movement #Quest2015
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How a feeling became a manifesto became a movement #Quest2015

ByJeffrey Davis

Every once in a while a feeling seizes me. It often comes while writing something seemingly different from the feeling. Last April, I kept feeling something not just about me but about us. Something to do with our mutual frustration with business as unusual and with the phrase that hasn’t left me for two years – business…

The Story Learning Gap for Authors & Business Artists
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The Story Learning Gap for Authors & Business Artists

ByJeffrey Davis

There’s no reliable place where entrepreneurs and business artists can gather to learn how to bring their trade nonfiction book’s story from the stage to the page.

creative courage: resist the right things: an assay
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creative courage: resist the right things: an assay

ByJeffrey Davis

  Brene Brown grew up with gritted teeth and a tart tongue. Armored, that is. In her book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, the fellow multi-generation Texan comes clean about her lifelong resistance to being emotionally vulnerable. Brown’s situation as a Texan, a…

Books That Matter to Die Empty Author Todd Henry
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Books That Matter to Die Empty Author Todd Henry

ByJeffrey Davis

Twenty years ago, conversations around creativity revolved around creative thinking. Lateral thinking. Metaphorical thinking. Design thinking. Those thinking models remain useful, but what we talk about when we talk about creativity today exceeds creative thinking. We talk about living creatively and being creative, not just thinking creatively. One person whose work in this field I admire…