Trapped in the Window Seat. Be Here Now?

Trapped in the Window Seat. Be Here Now?

In the May edition of Innovation Espresso®, Pull Up the Window Shades – You’re Seven Miles High, I described a flight from my home in Buffalo to our family farm in northern Colorado. I lamented the fact that most passengers kept their window shades...
Searching for Your Epiphany

Searching for Your Epiphany

Last month, I attended the Creative Problem-Solving Institute (CPSI). It is an annual creativity conference that has been going on since 1955. I have been participating in and leading sessions at the conference since the early 1980s. This year, one of the sessions I...
Jousting with Ghosts

Jousting with Ghosts

At least once a month, I have a two-hour Zoom call with my colleague and friend, Dr. Laree Kiely. We call it our “church.” Laree is in Northern California. I’m in Buffalo, NY. Laree and I met more than 30 years ago when we were both teaching at a leadership conference...
Where Do You Flow?

Where Do You Flow?

For the past three years, I’ve had the joy of playing music with 13 extraordinary musicians in a band called Rabble—recently re-named by one of our fans as The Rabble Acoustic Orchestra. And honestly? They nailed it. We really are an orchestra. Picture this Picture...