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What creators possess and the business world needs (not "creativity")

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What creators possess and the business world needs (not "creativity")

You Get There First: On Craft & Creativity Over Shortcuts & Hacks

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You Get There First: On Craft & Creativity Over Shortcuts & Hacks

5 Promises to Myself (And You) After My Third Year as a Professional Keynote Speaker

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5 Promises to Myself (And You) After My Third Year as a Professional Keynote Speaker

Why a Snapchat Follower Is More Valuable Than a Follower Anywhere Else

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Why a Snapchat Follower Is More Valuable Than a Follower Anywhere Else

Stories That Spread: 2 Radically Different Tales from 2 Inspirational CEOs

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Stories That Spread: 2 Radically Different Tales from 2 Inspirational CEOs

The biggest barrier to more creative work

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The biggest barrier to more creative work

How to grow a podcast: 2 levers you control

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How to grow a podcast: 2 levers you control

Are you usefully delusional?

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Are you usefully delusional?

Most times nope

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Most times nope

Should Your Company Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Settle It Once & For All

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Should Your Company Blog? An Essay (with Data) to Settle It Once & For All

The best, most frustrating quote about creativity

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The best, most frustrating quote about creativity

Creativity is just a choice among these 5 changes

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Creativity is just a choice among these 5 changes

One Different Thing (A Challenge to Content Marketers & Producers)

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One Different Thing (A Challenge to Content Marketers & Producers)

An underrated trait in a leader

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An underrated trait in a leader

URR: A Metric to Save Content Marketing from Making More Crap

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URR: A Metric to Save Content Marketing from Making More Crap

Content isn't a magnet-it's a filter

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Content isn't a magnet-it's a filter

Hiring Content Marketers? Try This Playbook to Vet Candidates Better

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Hiring Content Marketers? Try This Playbook to Vet Candidates Better

The willingness to act as if

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The willingness to act as if

Inside the creative process

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Inside the creative process

Creative Cafe: How to Create an Irresistible Podcast

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Creative Cafe: How to Create an Irresistible Podcast

Nothing is a draft (it's all a draft)

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Nothing is a draft (it's all a draft)

Repetition and reinvention

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Repetition and reinvention

Behind the Scenes With InVision: Why the Best B2B Brands Today Become Platforms for Their Customers' Careers

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Behind the Scenes With InVision: Why the Best B2B Brands Today Become Platforms for Their Customers' Careers

We're So Scared to Talk About Quality in Content Marketing. Why?

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We're So Scared to Talk About Quality in Content Marketing. Why?

Avoiding Generic Junk: How to Find Your Unique Content Angle

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Avoiding Generic Junk: How to Find Your Unique Content Angle

NBA Losing & Startups Who Fail to Screen for "Culture Fit"

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NBA Losing & Startups Who Fail to Screen for "Culture Fit"

How Your Favorite Sites Spin Headlines Into Stories

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How Your Favorite Sites Spin Headlines Into Stories

UNTHINKABLE: A $300M Empire Built by Solving a Problem Right Under Everyone's Noses

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UNTHINKABLE: A $300M Empire Built by Solving a Problem Right Under Everyone's Noses

The elements of story

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The elements of story

Which is it? Yes.

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Which is it? Yes.

The Paradox of Exceeding Expectations (and How to Do It Regularly)

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The Paradox of Exceeding Expectations (and How to Do It Regularly)

The 2018 Word of the Year

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The 2018 Word of the Year

Why "Write For Your Audience" Has Become Dangerous Advice

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Why "Write For Your Audience" Has Become Dangerous Advice

If I had one wish for all of us

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If I had one wish for all of us

Goals vs Measures

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Goals vs Measures

The Hidden Force Causing Teams to Stagnate (And How to Break Free)

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The Hidden Force Causing Teams to Stagnate (And How to Break Free)

The tradeoff in every career

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The tradeoff in every career

How results can hurt future results

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How results can hurt future results

Commodities or something better

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Commodities or something better

The rule of 3 for managing managers

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The rule of 3 for managing managers

When do ideas happen? Ask Darth Vader

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When do ideas happen? Ask Darth Vader

Create to find your clarity

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Create to find your clarity

Creative careers

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Creative careers

The best productivity trick ever invented

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The best productivity trick ever invented

Lessons from Hacking a Podcast: 3 Ways to Be Memorable

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Lessons from Hacking a Podcast: 3 Ways to Be Memorable

How to Work in Marketing When You're Bothered by Suck

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How to Work in Marketing When You're Bothered by Suck

UNTHINKABLE: The Incredible Insight That Turned Death Wish Coffee Into a Monster Success

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UNTHINKABLE: The Incredible Insight That Turned Death Wish Coffee Into a Monster Success

"Put in the reps" makes sense, but what are reps in creative work? || Unthinkable #148

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"Put in the reps" makes sense, but what are reps in creative work? || Unthinkable #148

"It shouldn't take extraordinary acts"

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"It shouldn't take extraordinary acts"

Make something worth continuing

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Make something worth continuing

Flipping creativity on its head

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Flipping creativity on its head

How long should a podcast be?

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How long should a podcast be?

This Is Your Brain on Content Marketing

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This Is Your Brain on Content Marketing

There's no clever answer

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There's no clever answer

How to make a movement

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How to make a movement

Unthinkable Podcast: NanaGram Empowers Families to Love Their Elders, One Photo at a Time

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Unthinkable Podcast: NanaGram Empowers Families to Love Their Elders, One Photo at a Time

Better than "How can I help?"

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Better than "How can I help?"

For your next social media post

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For your next social media post

Dear Business Internet: Enough of the Hacks, Cheats, and Gurus

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Dear Business Internet: Enough of the Hacks, Cheats, and Gurus

How to Get Free Content Marketing Help in Boston

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How to Get Free Content Marketing Help in Boston

How leaders start

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How leaders start

You can't be more creative (but here's what you can be)

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You can't be more creative (but here's what you can be)

Smug clarity

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Smug clarity

Human decency

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All The Weird Things Business People Do On Twitter

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All The Weird Things Business People Do On Twitter

The Problem with Marketing Is Not You (Seriously: An Imaginary Person Named "Not You")

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The Problem with Marketing Is Not You (Seriously: An Imaginary Person Named "Not You")

Podcast Production Playbook for When You're Sick of Talking Heads

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Podcast Production Playbook for When You're Sick of Talking Heads

How to de-stress your career

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How to de-stress your career

Once we know what the work really is, we can't help but start

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Once we know what the work really is, we can't help but start

The market is bigger for that

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The market is bigger for that

What If My (Content) Baby Is Ugly?

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What If My (Content) Baby Is Ugly?

Creative Freedom vs. Creative Restraints

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Creative Freedom vs. Creative Restraints

More important than Key Takeaways

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More important than Key Takeaways

Powerful unlocks to serve your work and life

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Powerful unlocks to serve your work and life

Marketing Has a Best Practices Problem

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Marketing Has a Best Practices Problem

Infinite ideas

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Get the news, then get out

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Get the news, then get out

It's okay to change it

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It's okay to change it

How to kill time right now

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How to kill time right now

Building an Audience Is Like Pushing a Boulder (Which Requires One Thing Above All Else)

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Building an Audience Is Like Pushing a Boulder (Which Requires One Thing Above All Else)

A better brainstorm

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A better brainstorm

Great marketing

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Great marketing

Pollination and beautiful accidents

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Pollination and beautiful accidents

The Foraging Choice: The Choice That Makes or Breaks Your Work

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The Foraging Choice: The Choice That Makes or Breaks Your Work

What "Sorry for Marketing" Is All About

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What "Sorry for Marketing" Is All About

NanaGram: How one family's mystery led to an app connecting people across generations

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NanaGram: How one family's mystery led to an app connecting people across generations

Transformational experiences

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Transformational experiences

The Despicable Buzzwords We Used & Abused at Google

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The Despicable Buzzwords We Used & Abused at Google

Telic work terrorizes us all

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Telic work terrorizes us all

Growth isn't a goal, it's a measure

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Growth isn't a goal, it's a measure

It Has Never Been Easier to Be Average

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It Has Never Been Easier to Be Average

First-moment creativity and what to do instead

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First-moment creativity and what to do instead

Systemic change: a reminder

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Systemic change: a reminder

How Help Scout Became a Refreshing Exception in the Customer Service Industry

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How Help Scout Became a Refreshing Exception in the Customer Service Industry

It's only crazy in Seattle

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It's only crazy in Seattle

How Should We Really View a VC's "Value-Add" Offerings? Making Sense of the Noise

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How Should We Really View a VC's "Value-Add" Offerings? Making Sense of the Noise

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