Kill your darling copy.
How the advice of an obscure lecturer from 1914 and a newspaper style guide from 1917 can help you kill it with your content strategy
Unite your team with more beautiful questions
Questions that begin with “why,” “why not” and “what if” not only fuel innovation and transformation, but trust and involvement in an organization. Those questions are “subversive, disruptive and playful,” she writes. When a team explores a great question, it generates “more solidarity, engagement and progress.” When a leader delivers an answer, there’s little room for a conversation.
Grow with the flow
I’ve just learned that we’ve lost a leading mind in the field of positive psychology and a pioneer in the research into the science of creativity. This blog post is a tribute to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and to bringing more creative flow into the workplace.