It’s Tuesday! (Improv in Business)

Make you partner look SUPER

I want to continue looking at the huge changes going on in how business gets done, and why the biggest business authors out there today are urging you to the use improv principles in your business. So let’s start with… Principle #1: Make your partner look good Business Reframe: Your customers and associates are real people, not statistics or cogs – treat them as living, breathing, feeling...

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Our Annual Report in the Style of Tennessee Williams…

Michael Scott from NBC's "The Office"

Improv has suddenly become a very hot topic for business.  Sometimes improv is mentioned directly (like in Fast Company Magazine, or in Chris Brogan’s bestseller “Trust Agents”).  Others like Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin, have focused on some principles of improv as new paradigms of business (without mentioning improv by name). I recently attended a presentation by David Sibbet (founder...

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Defining “Win”

Defining “Win”

A new book about video games and society explains the benefits of the "flow" state gamers often get. Improvisors get it too, but how can we get better at getting into "flow" and how can we get more "flow" in everyday life.

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