Find A Way Weekly

11 Questions Legendary Inventors Ask

Inside a smoky control room a few hundred feet from the Berlin Wall, a group of musicians sit slumped on ...

The Friday Ritual Behind a Multibillion Dollar Culture

(Yes, it involves a chili pepper emoji.) It was a Friday afternoon, and Erin Ozolins was debating whether to share ...

The Limits of Grit

Grit it out. Grind harder. Push through. Be bulletproof. Look at the language we've built around good professional work. Nearly ...

Bring the Banjo

The story of the Endurance and Ernest Shackleton is one of the greatest and most told leadership stories. But I ...

The Imaginary Spotlight

I've been deep in research lately for Co-Flow, my next book about creative collaboration. A big part of that work ...

Expanding the Envelope

In October 1947, a 24-year-old test pilot named Chuck Yeager climbed into a bright orange rocket plane with two broken ...

I Took an Improv Class

Recently, I signed up for an improv comedy workshop. It was "heuristic" research (where the researcher becomes part of the ...

Comping

There's a principle in jazz that every business leader and professional should know about. It's called comping. It's short for ...

Non-Consensus

There's a term tossed around Silicon Valley that I love: non-consensus.It's basically doing the unorthodox, unexpected thing instead of the ...

The Best Self Blueprint

Before my next meeting, sales pitch, dinner with my family, or the next email I'm about to send, I've started ...