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Episode 212: When You Assume…

May 27, 2025

If you start a line of reasoning with a presumption, you can only go one way. For most creative businesses, the presumption makes no sense so you can only go the wrong way. The old saying is true, when you assume, you make an…oh you know the rest.

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Episode 211: Entrepreneurship

May 20, 2025

I define entrepreneurship as being convicted enough to be relentless in having others believe as you do. This permeates everything a creative business is all about. Let’s talk about Chobani Greek Yogurt.

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Episode 210: The Four Transitions That Define Creative Business

May 13, 2025

Every creative business has four transitions: Potential Client To Actual Client, Idea To Design, Design To Production, Production To Reveal. As with all one-way valves, if they are leaky, things are going to go afoot, often drastically so. Enter Diana Prince. Listen in…

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Episode 209: Contracts

May 6, 2025

A contract is when your business talks. Do you want to shout? Whisper? Or pretend you are not talking? How about you just tell a story?

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Episode 208: The Importance Of Your Core

April 29, 2025

The impact your work as a creative business will have and the places you might take it depend on your core and consistency between your business and your artistry. The frog and the scorpion comes to mind.

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Episode 207: Understanding Herbie And The Importance Of The Theory Of Constraints To Creative Business

April 22, 2025

You would not think an operations management book would be so critical to the success of a creative business. After all creative businesses do not produce widgets. Process is process though and if you are not appreciating bottlenecks and motion, you will likely invest in the wrong solution. Enter Herbie and the cub scout hike. Listen in…

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Episode 206: Macro and Micro

April 15, 2025

The world is upside down so I better react by screaming louder and compromising more. Except you only want ten clients. How about you become more specific, not less?

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Episode 205: Dignity

April 8, 2025

As a creative professional, you see what others do not. It is why you get paid. You try to lead those you seek to serve with a guiding hand. And yet. When those around you refuse your direction what are you to do. Let’s talk about Leona Helmsley.

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Episode 204: How Do We Come Together?

April 1, 2025

We live in a world of validators, franchises and even networks. Duncan Hines, McDonald’s and The St. Regis. What if we created a different kind of consortium for creative business? Would we all be able to play nice in the sandbox and change the way clients make their choices? What would the world look like if we did?

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Episode 203: Perfect Egg Reprise

March 25, 2025

So you want to start something new or continue going on a new endeavor. How do you go about thinking about whether it makes sense to start and/or keep going? Remember The Perfect Egg.

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