Frank Gehry is a starchitect. He designs amazing, innovative buildings like The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. But above all, Frank Gehry is a reframer. He follows The Reframers Credo. So when he was asked to design a chair he started reframing. He redefined the problem as, […]
Scared: A Storyteller’s Tale
April 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
It’s lurking in that white piece of paper. Be careful, my friend. The Scared might get you. The Scared is everywhere. And it’s waiting for you For some people, it’s waiting for you on an airplane. The Scared is out there in the audience you’re about to address. If you’re an artist or a storyteller, […]
Schizophrenic Advice To Storytellers
November 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
So many voices in my head. Telling me what to do. Or how to do it. Or how to think about storytelling. The difference between what to think and how to think It’s always been that way. There’s always a battle between the rules and principles. For example, once upon a time there two titans […]
How It Works
May 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Ideas for change start out small and fragile. But the more you talk about them, the more you share them, the more they start to take shape. But when you experience a different way of seeing things people can be inspired to transform them from good ideas into great ideas. And the people […]
Generous Ideas Blow Up Real Good
January 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Ideas for good can be very powerful. They can grow and spread at a surprisingly rapid rate. But not without a purpose, a tribe, a story, and a movement. Like Blake’s big boom It was finally time for a little fun. He needed it. Running four startups was getting to him. So he decided to […]
To Those Who Leap
February 23, 2016 by 2 Comments
One day, Bill Klann took a trip to Chicago. Of all the wonders that he could see there, Bill found himself in the midst of the Union Stock Yards. In a slaughterhouse, of all places. The world’s capital of butchery There, he was immersed in a model of industrial butchering efficiency. Animal carcasses moved by […]
Think Differently
February 8, 2015 by 1 Comment
Ideas start out small and fragile. But the more you talk about them, the more you share them, the more they take shape. But when you add a different way of seeing things ideas can go from good to great. And so can people.
