Time To Set Some Goals

To my Ohio State creativity students (and anyone using Carry Forth): Maybe I haven't been asking the right question. Each year, I ask my creativity students to list their goals. But, well, something isn't happening. The answers aren't answering the...

On Mentoring

Last week's Think Big conference in Dallas inspired this speech today to Columbus Rotary. ✍ On Mentoring Before I start, a quick note about technology.  Your smartphones, your iPads — I'd like you to turn them on. Not off. On. You see: I come from the...

City Boy

I split myself into little pieces several years ago. I decided: My hands work in Columbus. My heart sits beside my beloved. My soul walks in the Negev. My imagination lives in New York. My intellect is challenged in New Haven. It's not that I must physically stand...

Blown Away

Greetings from Ohio. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the Presidential election isn’t my main cause. I understand that it’s very important — and I have registered approximately 100 people — and I will vote — and I ask you to vote — and I am not undecided...

We are all “undecided.”

What is it, nine days? Nine days before we — as a nation — make our biggest decision of the year. Zealots say: "the biggest decision of our lives." (Zealots are sometimes right.) As a recovering marketer, I can't help but see this in clinical terms. Like...