Posts Tagged ‘strategy’

An 8 iron for creativity: what you can learn from one club golf

First of all, a definition of one club golf. No, it is not golf played by members of advertising’s famous One Club. Rather, it is a round played with a single club. That is correct—one, single solitary club and all the skill, creativity and talent you can bring to that particular round of golf. And yes, you must putt with this club as well.

So what does all this have to do with digital, strategy or creativity which is what I usually write about here? A lot.

Let me ask you this: How many of us are hindered by thinking we can only play with a “full bag of clubs?” Instead, I’d suggest seeing limitations for what they are: things you don’t need to worry about.

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Speed Sketching: A valuable lesson from Mike Rohde

This past Saturday, I attended the very cool DrawCamp series of seminars on all things drawing held at BucketWorks. A very enthusiastic James Carlson introduced the event as an “Unconference,” that is, one in which attendees volunteer to lead and teach one of the 45 minute segments scheduled throughout the day. It was inspiring to see the big turnout (including lots of kids- #ubercool) at yet another creative gathering that’s making Milwaukee a great community to live and work in.

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