There’s no denying it: people like thinking about innovation. About a bazillion years ago, I took a class that put me through hour after hour of thinking about the how behind creativity. A ridiculous number of books have been written about how to think more inventively. Around the office, we’re always trying to come up [...]

I was re-reading a bunch of my favourite articles on leadership and management this week – it’s been a hectic and exciting time in the agency lately and I’m always thinking about how to be better as we grow. In my array of bookmarks, I ran back into possibly the best thing I read in [...]

Last week was Toronto’s Creative Places + Spaces conference – a very dynamic gathering of speakers from not-for-profit and educational sectors, with some CBC talent and Toronto City Hall employees thrown in for good measure. The theme of the day was collaboration. Presenters explored the unconventional ways that individuals, communities, and institutions can work together [...]

Last week, I was invited to attend a speaker series at Rotman where I listened to an excellent presentation from Jeremy Gutsche, Chief Trend Hunter of Trendhunter.com. Gutsche spoke about his new book, Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the presentation did not [...]

Over the course of your career, you will be inevitably be tasked with a “small job”. It will usually be presented to you in the following manner: “Client A wants us to whip up a Project B. Can you have something ready by end-of-day tomorrow?” It’s the kind of job that neither the client nor [...]