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Brand & Innovation Digest – February 2017

During the past month, Tracking Wonder’s research assistant Gianna Kaloyeros has curated some of what we deem the most relevant studies, stories, and news that will help you and your team excel at having the most impact and influence via brand building, storytelling, and innovation. – Jeffrey, Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder Four Reasons Every Startup’s…

8 Books for Your Best Work (+ Publishing Insights)
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8 Books for Your Best Work (+ Publishing Insights)

STAND UP FOR YOUR BEST WORK  To be a business artist, you’re called to shape your hours and days in ways that support your taking regular action on the work that matters.  Whether you work from a corporate office, a living room table, a home studio, or a small business – your patch of the…

Why business artists & creatives need to climb trees instead of ladders
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Why business artists & creatives need to climb trees instead of ladders

My unstoppable productivity can exhaust the best parts of my mind. My “optimized” studio – with standing desk and white board walls and the best digital equipment and the best books at my disposal – sometimes cheers on Captain Productivity a bit too enthusiastically. To snap the Captain out of his usual modus operandis, I…

3 Reasons Apple Still Captivates & Elevates
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3 Reasons Apple Still Captivates & Elevates

Any animus toward Apple aside, they still captivate and elevate in ways that small businesses, solo-preneurs, creative professionals, and creatives & authors can learn from. Many of my clients and groups struggle with telling the Story of who they are and what they do with consistency and integrity. And others actually feel trapped by their…

What is Your State of Wonder in 2013?
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What is Your State of Wonder in 2013?

In 2005, where was wonder, this emotional state at the core of creativity, story, innovation, and wisdom? Newly divorced and fresh off a book tour, I hovered that year in a precarious in-between state. So what did I do? I started quietly but deliberately tracking wonder. I thought I would find it chiefly among poets and…

Creativity 3.0 – why the new story of creativity is incomplete
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Creativity 3.0 – why the new story of creativity is incomplete

During the past few years, a new story of creativity has emerged. But even the new story is incomplete. Let me be audacious enough to recount the old story, propose the new story, and to fill in what I think is incomplete and propose Creativity 3.0. And you please help me fill in the blanks…

When Marketing Kills Creativity
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When Marketing Kills Creativity

But in the wrong doses and with the wrong timing, marketing can kill creativity, thwart innovation, and stall personal and professional growth.

To treat website development as catalyst for creativity is legit, but doing so requires authentic strategy, and it demands putting marketing in its proper place.

A Training To Train Your Best Self to Show Up for Your Muse & Your Tribes
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A Training To Train Your Best Self to Show Up for Your Muse & Your Tribes

I want to tell you about a training. It’s a training to train your best self to do your greatest creative work in the world. And it’s a training that opens the way for you to do likewise for your clients, your students, your teams, your tribes. You and I know the challenges of living…