Corwin Hiebert Managing Creative People + Creative Projects
Category “Soap Box”
What I Found in the Gutter
Years ago there was a game I loved to play – it’s called Gutter Ball; I’d be surprised if you’ve heard of it. The object is simple: two players stand on either end of a 12ft. trough-shaped table, sort of like a shuffleboard table, and they exchange a cue ball in hopes of knocking all [...]
Weirdo
I recently had a Skype interview with Jeffery Saddoris of Faded & Blurred (it was published a few weeks ago to his postcast series called Q&A@F&B). This interview was an amazing opportunity that presented some invaluable lessons for me that I thought I’d share because heck, who knows, maybe you can draw some insights to [...]
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 [...]
Life as David Sees It
My buddy David duChemin offered up a very important blog post yesterday that I think every creative entrepreneur needs to read. Seriously… go to his blog (pixelatedimage.com/blog) and read his Life is Short post. Here’s a little snippet: Life is short. Live it now. And live it with all your strength and passion now. Don’t [...]
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. [...]
Serious Awesomeness
With CREATIVEMIX just around the corner the margins of my life have filled up with all of the lovely things that final preparations produce: to many meetings, a stupid amount of email, enough phone calls to make an operator jealous, and extraneous mental note taking like “Oh crap, I can’t forget to bring my iPod [...]
Do What You Love
Confession of an entrepreneur: When I’m busy or stressed a 9-to-5 job sounds pretty damn appealing; I can’t help it. Working late each night, for weeks on end, is probably the trigger that gets me thinking about life on the other side… going to work, then going home. That concept has lost all meaning. However, [...]
Poster-licious
Last night Eileen and I strolled to The Roundhouse, Hazelnut lattes in-hand, and did a quick walk-thru of the Exhibition Hall – a reconnaissance mission if you will. Holy crap are we getting excited for Nov.4! The exhibition is going to be amazing – and open to the public, how cool is that! With CREATIVEMIX [...]
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 [...]
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