Corwin Hiebert Managing Creative People + Creative Projects
Category “Productivity”
The Writing is On the Wall
In 2001 I said to my closest friends “Someday I’m going to start a business.” I didn’t know what kind of business it would be but I just knew that I was wired to operate a company. It took me 7 years to truly discover what that ultimate business was, and there was an entrepreneur [...]
Step Into My Office
David and I have had a lot of meetings but this one took the cake. A couple weeks after surgery (read the nearly tragic story on his blog) he brought me out from the Westcoast to spend three days in “his office”. Well, it wasn’t so much an office as it was a busy hospital [...]
Live the Dream!
This is a short promo video I did using Keynote and Garageband. It’s pretty campy, I know, but how else will the A-Team know that I’m available to do all their voice-overs?! Today is the prelaunch of a NEW project that’s been in the works for 8 months: it’s called clamorate! It’s a collaboration – [...]
Making Meetings Not Suck
[Part 2 of 2] As a counter-post to my pissy rant about how much I think meetings suck, let me share with you some ideas on how you can make meetings not suck. The truth is I have very few traditional meetings. I prefer to process the details of project online – that’s what Smartsheet [...]
Meetings Suck
[Part 1 of 2] Meetings suck. That’s right, I said it. Why such a strong reaction you ask? Well – it’s simple. For too long I’ve felt that meetings have a remarkable success rate at wasting my time but I’ve never had much proof (other than that nagging, irritated feeling I get when I’m subjected [...]
Steer a Moving Ship
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It is a great book – my favourite of his for sure. In Blink he discusses “thin-slicing” – the idea that spontaneous decisions are often as good as, or even better than carefully planned ones. After reading that [...]
Silly Things
I’m kicking off a new series of posts that I think you’ll really like. They are focused on helping my fellow creative entrepreneurs question those seemingly simple decisions that in fact have a major impact on our potential and our productivity. With the cunning use of useless statistics (fake and stupid is probably a more [...]
The Simple Mind
I think we think to much. As creative entrepreneurs we overload our minds with information and we spew out to much information. The images, visuals, concepts, words, lists, charts – the production of ideas requires a ton of mental effort and I wonder if we’re too quick to embrace this rapid exchange of cerebral racket. [...]
Paperless Workflow
This post is the first in the series Reduce the Noise – articles focused on removing the chaos that keeps us from being inspired, productive, and successful. I’m kicking this series off by jumping right into the hornet’s nest – it’s an area that I believe creative entrepreneurs consistently loath and neglect: Paper Work. It [...]
The Email Manifesto
It’s time to rant. If you’re anything like me then you work hard every day but find that you spend to much time on your computer. You don’t normally mind all the computer work save one problem: your email in-box. It never stops filling up. Ever. For every email we delete, move, or reply they [...]
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