By Peter Jeff
The Leadership Mints Guy

Here is an idea to strengthen your strategic planning. Reading time: 3:27

Seascape artist Joseph Turner took his research personally. He once had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a storm so that he could feel the power of the angry sea lashing out at him. No wonder he was known for realistic emotion in his art.

I can sense the fury and fright oozing out of pores through his brush and on to canvass in his 1842 piece titled Snow Storm Steam-Boat.

When you take your research THAT personally, you invest in a plan that seems to take on a life of its own. Your plan then becomes MORE than something you draw up. Your plan then becomes Some THING that draws YOU in—much like a magnet that electrifies, energizes and engages you to think more broadly, to act more boldly.

Now I don’t advise lashing yourself to a ship’s mast during a storm but I am impressed by those leaders who seek more than speak. I am impressed with those leaders I have met who are more than willing to walk out -way out on a plank -well beyond their own Know-LEDGE (a.k.a knowledge) to find something NEW not confirm or refute something they already knew. Continue reading “Creativity: Walking Out Beyond Your Know-LEDGE” →