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[VIDEO] The Last Safe Investment: The Creativity Matters Interview with Bryan Franklin
The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase your True Wealth Forever Bryan Franklin is the co-author (along with Michael Ellsberg) of The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever. The Last Safe Investment is a powerful and timely book that challenges traditional (and completely broken) strategies of traditional investing, affectionately termed the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part X: Burning Man and the Primordial Ground of Creativity
“It is, we are, I am,” is the secret mantra of creativity that drives people back to the desert each year, to return sleep-deprived, covered with impossibly fine dust, and, though there is an outward call for self reliance and Self-expression, to return with a felt sense of having participated in something much, much larger […]
7 Reasons Creativity is Essential to Your Company’s Success
Want long term success for YOUR company, all your valued team members, and all your valued customers? Follow these 7 simple guidelines: 1) Survival Creativity is no longer a feel-good, luxury item of “the creative class” but an essential (and learnable) skill for your entire organization. Here’s the tough news for your company: As the global marketplace […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part IX: Alcatraz and the Jungian Shadow
…the fact that Alcatraz, the world’s first super prison, sits in the middle of the Golden Gate, one of the world’s most famous portals, serves as a reminder that light and darkness are paired opposites; they cannot be extracted from one another. Welcome to Alcatraz The summer of 1934, during the 21 year respite between the […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Bay Area Innovation, Part VIII: The City of Gold
Gold is revered cross-culturally because it seems to build a bridge between this world and some other. The City of Gold The peninsula currently known as San Francisco has had many names, and based on the number of indigenous tribes living in the area before the Spanish arrived, many more than I’ll be able to report. […]