Human in an AI Age: Grace
This is the third of a series on Human in an AI Age.
The first post Roots and Wings reminded us that humans are a unique combination of memories and dreams, of what we were and what we are becoming. Roots and Wings is about our distinct journeys that define our humanity. The post illustrated how the roots and wings approach can help us connect and resonate in an AI age.
The second post Voices reflected on the combination of creative expression, taste, curation, connection and inspiration that is each persons unique voice which will keep us distinct and adding value in an AI age. Voice is about the idiosyncrasies that make us. The post suggested ways we architect, hone and sculpt our voice.
This third post builds on our state of unique becoming ( roots and wings), and what makes us distinct (voice) to introduce the concept of a way of being that is uniquely human: Grace.
Grace.
Think of the people we admire, respect and aspire to emulate.
Initially it may be the rich, the successful, the uniquely talented, the beautiful, the brilliant and the powerful.
Money has declining returns beyond a certain point of accumulation. Success comes and goes. Talent may shrivel. Beauty withers. Power ebbs. Time laughs and overcomes all.
Looking for contentment and freedom we often find people of grace.
While grace is often linked to the divine and is incorporated into many of the great religions it is not limited to these spheres.
A person of grace tends to combine the elements of dignity, humility and generosity.
Dignity.
Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights. The term may also be used to describe personal conduct, as in "behaving with dignity" (Wikipedia)
The Dignified are not just graceful in bearing but treat everyone with dignity.
They understand the importance of of being respectful of what has gone before and tradition even when challenging the status quo.
These individuals do not look down on others and are aware that those in need or on the outside could very well be themselves under different circumstances or on another day.
They treat others as humans with great potential that are working to overcome confusion and complications.
To be human is to recognize the dignity of every human without the badges of power, money and fame. To respect the non-quantitative, to give weight to what does not compute, to bet on what might be versus what there is.
AI might struggle to be dignified.
Humility.
To be humble is to not lose one’s sense of perspective.
To understand that achievement while significant is often due to a combination of many factors including luck, opportunity, inheritance, and the specific time and not just one’s skill and hard work.
To not gloat in victory but to be circumspect and keep a sense of decorum.
To remember the line from the great 17th Century poet John Donne:
“never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
We are all part of the same human experience and often the same industry and if too many competitors are going under it cannot behoove well for our own future or future of our industry.
AI may not understand humility given it lives forever and expands its capabilities exponentially.
Generosity.
In the world of business and technology it is important to monetize, gain market share and scale. To optimize for efficiency and effectiveness. To battle and to win.
But often a zero sum game shrinks everybody.
Abundance may also be a part of the approach.
A CEO shared a story about how a poor family of immigrants stopped to help someone who had a flat tire in bad weather. After the tire was changed, the individual offered money to the family. They turned it down saying “Today it was you. Tomorrow it might be us.”
Sooner or later, everybody finds themselves needing help and depending on acts of generosity. It might be some form of aid, guidance, a person to talk to who will listen, a leg-up or sometimes gently delivered difficult to hear advice.
By being there and helping when someone is in need ensures good “Karma.”
If what goes around comes around it may make sense to send good stuff people’s way.
Generosity makes for a better life for not just the recipient but also to the giver.
If strategy is future competitive advantage, generosity is smart for individual or company strategies.
Generosity builds good will which is both an asset and a moat.
It is an asset in that it can be tapped in the future.
It is a moat because when an individual or a company has been generous in times of trouble their employee or customer are less likely to switch to a different firm for a lower price or higher pay.
Generosity is also a key differentiator in that usually when a person or firm needs help there are few people willing to help someone out of power or in trouble. Those individuals and brands who do help stand out and their showing up and helping when others are not burns into the emotional and mental memory of the recipient.
Emotional connections are harder to sever or replace than financial connections.
AI may not feel that.
AI is still under-hyped. It is changing the world and unleashing great wealth, scientific breakthroughs and opportunities as well as great shifts and challenges. It is critical to embrace and learn AI. But it is how we complement and augment AI and integrate it with human purpose and meanign is where the magic will lie.
Recognizing roots and wings, voice and grace is one way we might thrive as Humans in an Age of AI.
And here is an opportunity to provide dignity and be generous from someone who is as graceful as they come:
A note from Jack Klues Retired CEO of Publicis Media and VP of Off the Street Board.
You're invited: Swing For the Kids - A Day of Fun, Impact and Sisterhood
25 years ago, we dreamed up a women-only charity golf outing to primarily benefit the girls programming of the Off The Street Club (OTSC.) For those not familiar, for the last 125 years, the Club is a "safe haven” - allowing kids who live in Chicago’s highly dangerous West Side to be kids.
The event is called Swing For the Kids and has grown into what we believe is the largest and longest running women's charity golf AND pickleball event in the country.
More than just a day of sport, Swing For The Kids is a powerful gathering of professional women from across Chicago's Advertising, Media, Financial, and Corporate worlds. Entry Level to C Suite Officers from companies like Publicis Groupe, Netflix, Google, NBC Universal, Wrigley, and JP Morgan Chase. Over 250 participants coming together to make a real difference in these kids' lives.
As former Kraft CEO and current OTSC Board President, Betsy Holden, says it's "an amazing, inspirational day of sisterhood.”
Whether you are golfing, playing pickleball, or just soaking up the energy, food and prizes, you will leave with more than you came for: new connections, memorable stories, and the satisfaction of supporting kids who really need it and are worth it.
Tell your friends. Ask your employer. We want and need you to join us.
Experience the magic that happens at Swing.
Monday, September 8
Twin Orchard Country Club in Long Grove, Illinois
Call 312-315-2917 or visit otscswing.com to learn more or sign-up
Photography by Rishad Tobaccowala.
Human in an AI Age: Voice
This is the second of a series in how to thrive as a human in an AI Age.
While AI is deeply significant, doubling in capability every seven months, and changing and impacting every industry and human it’s future contours are still uncertain.
However, a case may be made that while AI itself will be essential to compete just like electricity has been necessary to compete, like electricity it will not provide a competitive advantage. Everybody today has access to electricity and so will we to AI.
The difference will come from how companies and individuals use AI not just to become more efficient and effective but also to re-imagine their businesses and much more. This competitive difference will come from Humans combining with AI.
Last week’s post of Roots and Wings explained one way to find leverage human imagination, human inspiration, human inventiveness, human instinct and human intuitiveness.
Today’s piece is on another key edge:
Voice.
What is Voice?
I once wrote a piece on how to future proof ourselves by listing 6C’s.
These were Cognition ( the ability to learn), Curiosity , Creativity, Convincing (ability to persuade) Communication and Collaboration.
Most of these 6c’s are a subset of Voice.
Anthropic’s Claude defines Voice in many ways but this piece will focus on are these:
Communication: Voice represents your ability to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas through speech. It's your personal way of communicating - the tone, pitch, rhythm, and style that makes your spoken communication unique.
Metaphorical/Social: Having a "voice" means having the power or opportunity to express your opinions and influence decisions. When people talk about "giving voice to the voiceless," they mean providing platforms for those who lack power or representation.
Literary/Artistic: In writing and storytelling, voice refers to the distinctive style, tone, and perspective of a narrator or author. It's what makes one writer's work recognizable from another's.
We often hear about the importance of curation, of taste, of story-telling, of creativity and inspiring in what humans will bring to the mix in an AI Age.
All of these are about our voice.
Creativity as an expression of self….voice
Curation is how one uniquely filters and selects from a cornucopia of information….voice
Taste…is a an expression of our individuality…voice
Convincing and persuading is about what one brings to a world where everyone has same knowledge when knowledge is free…voice
Inspiring people to do things that facts alone may not be enough is to utter the unsayable, urge the impossible…voice
Communication is about how you write and present and its built around voice
Each one of us are special and in today’s AI age we need to find, hone, architect and sculpt our voice in addition to embracing, adapting and complementing AI.
Four Ways to bring our Voice to an AI Age.
Step 1: Upgrade AI skills.
First to thrive as a human in an AI Age it is critical to upgrade our AI quotient. Below is a piece I wrote about how to do it ( no need for consultants, schools, conferences or anything else…just yourself and 20 to 100 dollars a month depending on what you can afford)
Start with following the recommendations from Upgrading our AI Quotient.
Step 2: Hone the 4P’s: Perspective. Point of View. Provocation. Plan of Action.
Everybody will have access to the same knowledge in a world where knowledge will be free.
No one will care that we have data bases, decks, charts and graphs all dressed up in color with moving videos. Chump change anybody can develop once we upgrade our AI skills ( thus Step 1)
The questions that will bring our voice to the data will be the following:
What is our Perspective about all this information? How does it fit with what has come before, come after, our competitors businesses etc. We need to learn to put everything we do in context.
What is our Point of View on everything. What do we believe. What do we agree with and what do we not agree with.
What Provocation do we bring. Can we challenge the data or look at in a different way that maybe even rejects it all.
What is the Plan of Action we recommend. Yes the AI may suggest plans of action. Are they right? Should they be combined? Can we build on what is recommended.
Every single meeting, every single conversation think of bringing one or more P’s to the data or to the output of AI.
Any meeting that is just about sharing information is worthless without one of the 4P’s.
Perspective. Point of View. Provocation. Plan of Action.
Step 3: Open Many Portals to Many Worlds.
To curate, select with taste, express self, and learn to inspire we need to marinate in the works and learn from people who have great voices whether it be scientists, business people, teachers, musician, authors, painters, film makers and story tellers.
It is important to expose ourselves to a range of inputs and stimuli. From reading to listening to music to traveling to watching movies to visiting museums to helping people to going back to school to concerts to sporting events the more varied and different experiences the more dots we have to connect and work with.
The more stuff we interact with including opposing points of view the better.
The more portals we open the more we have to curate, grow our taste, use in our communication, align and find our voice.
Embrace life.
Step out of the stream and search results
Follow the path less taken.
Open the portals.
Step 4: Aesthetics
Aesthetics is defined by Leonard Koren as “ a cognitive mode in which you are aware and think about the sensory and emotive qualities of phenomena and things”.
A simple way build such one’s aesthetic sense is to observe.
To pay attention. Not just to things but to people.
To do things that move you or move others.
David Foster Wallace wrote
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
No AI will ever do that.
Or just look and feel since all humans choose with our hearts and then use numbers to justify what we just did…
A Day of Fun, Impact, and Sisterhood!
My long time boss and mentor Jack Klues who was on the Directoire of Publicis Groupe and was the CEO of Publicis Media and many others including myself have been involved in an amazing endeavor called Off The Street Club.
25 years ago, we dreamed up a women -only charity golf outing to primarily benefit the girls programming of the Off The Street Club ( OTSC). For those not familiar, For the last 125 years, the Club acts as a "safe haven"; allowing kids just to be kids who live in Chicago's highly dangerous West Side.
The event is called Swing For the Kids and has grown into what we believe is the largest and longest running women's charity golf AND pickleball event in the country.
More than just a day of sport, Swing For The Kids is a powerful gathering of professional women from across Chicago's Advertising, Media, Financial, and Corporate worlds - Entry Level to C Suite Officers from companies like Publicis Groupe, Netflix, Google, NBC Universal, Heinz/Kraft, and JP Morgan Chase . Over 200 participants coming together to make a real difference in these kids lives.
As former Kraft CEO and current OTSC Board President, Betsy Holden, says it's "an amazing , inspirational day of sisterhood".
Whether you are golfing, playing pickleball, or just soaking up the energy, food, and prizes, you will leave with more than you came for- new connections, memorable stories, and the satisfaction of supporting kids who really need it and our worth it.
Tell your friends. Ask your employer. We want and need you to join us.
Experience the magic that happens at Swing.
- September 8th
- Twin Orchards Country Club in Long Grove, Illinois
- Call 312-315-2917 or visit otscswing.com to learn more or signup.
Photography by Rishad Tobaccowala
Human in an AI Age: Roots and Wings.
Photograph by Rishad Tobaccowala
This is the first of a multi-post series on Human in the Age of AI.
18 months ago I wrote AI is Under-Hyped.
The piece was prescient and today AI capability is doubling every 7 months and has surpassed Human Intelligence.
The new term is Super Intelligence ( a more reasonable goal than AGI).
So its no longer AI + HI where HI is human intelligence because Human Intelligence has been left in the dust.
HI will still matter but it will be Human Intuition. Human Inventiveness. Human Insight. Human Inspiration. Human Interaction. Human Innovation. Human Iteration.
And to thrive in an AI age we will need to combine the roots of our humanity and combine them with the wings of our possibilities.
While humanity may be a silly phase a greater intelligence is adapting through. we will need to forge and fuse what we were and what we can become.
The first of this series is a reprint of a piece I wrote four years ago and may resonate today if we think of Roots to be the Human Story so far and Wings to be the AI we humans have created which might help us become even more…
To succeed as an individual or as a firm one must have roots and wings.
Roots provide stability, a place to stand, a passed along tradition and a sense of history.
But roots alone which are important to ensure one does not get blown away by the winds of change might anchor one too much to the past and to a status quo which may no longer be relevant.
Thus, the importance of wings.
The ability to raise oneself and see above the horizon, to look down with new perspectives and to ensure that the roots which feed us do not wither by failing to adapt to a new world.
Roots nourish via what we were and where we came from and what we did.
Wings encourage us to go where we need to and to blaze new trails which will lay down tomorrows roots and are a highway to what we will accomplish.
Why roots are critical.
We are stories.
Whether we are individuals or companies.
We all have beginnings.
Origin stories either real or concocted.
Once upon a time.
Day one.
In the beginning.
This past for companies creates rituals, motivational stories, moments of crisis, provenance, proof, and a reason to believe. Tales that encrust every key financial event like barnacles. The almost went out of business moments, the eureka breakthrough moments, the IPO moment, or the key acquisition.
As time passes, people move on, and locations change the stories linger often shape shifting with the passage of time, with who the story teller is , and the quality of the telling.
Remembered history may not be history but in it is rooted much.
Roots are critical for not just companies but individuals.
Personal roots shaped by the people and places we grew up, first losses, loves, jobs and mentors, help make us what we are. Then key decisions and roads taken or not taken that bring us to the present. We plumb, narrate, garnish, and embellish these roots to explain why and where we are today.
The tattoo moments that we wear as invisible scars or badges that nobody sees but that mark our days.
People, skills, relationships are forged and become part of our roots.
Reputations, brands, trust, and networks are built by time and help us navigate the sway of change by keeping us rooted to what matters, disciplined in skills, protected by a trampoline of earned trust.
Over the years we are forged in the foundry and furnace of experiences that enable us to become the force we are. This enables faster action and movement than the uninitiated since what others must learn comes as second nature.
Roots matter in relationships, in honing of skills and much more.
The magic of wings.
While every individual and firm start somewhere, every life and firm are also a journey.
Just as a tree that begins with a seed initiating a root, many of us are lucky to be nourished by the water and light of life provided by families, school, and friends to reach upward and branch out.
We take wings.
Wings are fueled by dreams. By crossing the horizon to go where no one has gone before. To do the unimaginable and the impossible.
It is the fuel that drives not just entrepreneurs but all of us who take a risk, switch careers, leave a city or country to go to another. It fuels immigrants who leave with nothing but a dream for a better life. Wings beat and provide the wind for artists who start with a blank sheet of paper, a piece of rock, an empty space which they convert into stories, songs, plays, paintings, movies, sculpture and more.
While the roots, the status quo, and the ground below us are all real we often take wing to the unseeable, the unknowable.
We take a leap into the void that sometimes results in innovation, creativity, the un-status quo when we land.
Every individual has wings.
It is just a question of when and if we get the chance to use them.
Combining roots and wings.
If every individual and company is a story with a place we came from, every individual and a firm is also about a place we are going to.
We all integrate the dualities of roots and wings.
Too rooted and we may wither way as changing times and climate bring drought to the place and way we were.
Too winged and we may be blown away in the gusts of change.
Too rooted and we may be seen as old school, hide bound to tradition and inflexible.
Too ready to fly with change may find us painted as unreliable, undisciplined, and short-term oriented.
Transformation is twisting ourselves and companies into new shapes with the clay of what we were and new skills and pieces we acquire.
To believe and better understand where you are going people want to know from where you are coming.
If you wish to record a new track it helps, especially once you are no longer a beginner, to have a track record.
So next time ask yourself, your friends or your company or the companies you wish to partner with:
a) What are the tattoo moments that made you what you are?
b) What do you believe is key from the past to your future and what should you be willing to or need to leave behind?
c) Where are you going and what do you believe about tomorrow?
d) What leaps of faith or acts of courage are you going to take to get there?
And many of us will get to where we are going.
This is because we got where we are today by continuously integrating, balancing, and unifying yesterday and tomorrow, safety and risk and what we are/were and what we want to be.
We are a mix of roots and wings…
Forever Young.
In Colombo, Sri Lanka, lies a cemetery containing the grave of Arthur Charles Clarke who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The gravestone has this phrase inscribed on it:
“He never grew up, but he never stopped growing”
Arthur C Clarke remained forever young.
By ensuring a growth mindset our companies and ourselves can also attempt to remain forever young.
Our mobile operating system has upgraded itself 18 times in the past 18 years (Apple) or 16 times (Android)
All around us software is constantly updating itself.
How many times have we upgraded our mental operating system in the past 18 years?
Rethought our internal architecture and our API’s on how we connect and perceive and adapt?
After all keeping our bodies in shape is not the same as ensuring our minds are constantly upgrading themselves.
By upgrading our mental operating systems we can remain forever young long after our bodies stop being so.
The lyrics of Forever Young are by Bob Dylan but the best renditions of this song have tended to be by Joan Baez.
Today some of the very powerful and wealthy might benefit from finding ways to rekindle the younger person in them that their older selves may be suppressing.
To remember when idealism, youthful courage and the vivacity of the new idea enabled the possibilities of anything.
Forever Young by Bob Dylan.
May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
May you stay forever youngMay you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the light surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
May you stay forever youngMay your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
May your song always be sung
And may you stay forever young
May you stay forever young
But in many ways we do not remain forever young.
Our bodies give way, our minds lose a step, raw intelligence is replaced by crystalized intelligence and wisdom.
There comes a time to let go, to move on, to climb a second mountain, to pass the baton to a newer generation.
From the main stage to an encore career or a new life.
A different type of growing.
To find a fit where one’s current state of youth is aligned with reality.
Every career and role has a midnight hour and the smart people leave at five to twelve.
When still seen as a prince or princess and not yet a pumpkin.
There are limits to forever young.
And understanding that one can remain forever young, constantly upgrading and having a growth mindset but understanding that is not the same as youth is what the truly forever young understand.
By not overstaying in a role, a point of view, a belief as the world changes is the we we stay…
Forever Young.
Creativity in an Age of AI.
In an article for The Verge, Nilay Patel its editor in chief, noted that in an interview with Ben Thompson Mark Zuckerberg described a vision where a client comes to Meta and says “I want customers for my product,” and Meta does everything else. It generates photos and videos of those products using AI, writes copy about those products with AI, assembles that into an infinite number of ads with AI, targets those ads to all the people on its platforms with AI, measures which ads perform best and iterates on them with AI, and then has those customers buy the actual products on its platforms using its systems.
At the recently concluded Cannes International Festival of Creativity, the dominant theme according to all reports was AI. And one of the worries apparently was what AI would do to creativity in a tech infused, data driven, highly measured eco-system dominated by Meta, Google, Amazon and others.
So I thought it would make sense to turn to a gentleman who may know a little about the topic.
His name is Sir John Hegarty and for those not familiar with him here is a little bit to establish his credentials to speak to the subject:
Founder BBH: In 1982, with partners John Bartle and Nigel Bogle, he started Bartle Bogle Hegarty one of the most iconic agencies that helped build brands such as Audi, Levi’s and Johnnie Walker among others.
Awards and Recognition: Sir John has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including the D&AD President's Award, the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, and a knighthood for services to advertising in 2007.
Authored Books: He has written two influential books:
Hegarty on Advertising: Turning Intelligence into Magic
Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules
The Garage Soho: In 2014, he co-founded The Garage Soho, an incubator for disruptive business ideas where he invested in dozens of young companies.
The Business of Creativity: Sir John believes creativity is key to business growth and everyone can nurture creativity. A few years ago he co-founded The Business of Creativity working with companies and leaders all over the world.
You can listen to the entire conversation here and the links at the end of the post.
Here are 4 of many many insights and perspectives Sir Hegarty shared including the single best definition of creativity I have ever heard:
1. Sir John loves and has embraced AI.
He believes AI is going to be incredible and profound. It will be a significant democratizing opportunity allowing the unleashing of new forms of creativity.
Sir John suggests we should not view AI as a tool but as collaborator that allows all of us to be creative directors. No longer is there an art director or copy writer but the fusion of the two.
The big challenge of AI are the copyright issues and ownership of IP laws.
2. Creativity is a key to Brands but he is worried that many of today’s brands will fail to endure and are being actively destroyed !
Marketers have become so data driven and so hooked to lower funnel promotion measurable outcomes that significant brand destruction is underway as we have seen with Nike among others.
Brands are not built by promotion but also by persuasion and with the exception of personal brands like influencers very few enduring brands are built online.
Online Brands such as Dollar Shave Club come and go quickly sold to bigger companies who have FOMO. Direct to Consumer brands that depend on metrics and measurement and narrow targeting are mostly eroding because tech companies keep focusing on people who buy the brand or people who look like those who bought the brand which is too narrow and due to competitive bidding for the same people are very expensive to reach.
It is very critical for a brand to be known by those who do not know about it and this is source of growth for most companies. Convincing these folks is not about utility, features and performance but telling a story of what the brand stands for, how it makes one feel, how it resonates with culture, how it fits into a person’s life.
Today brands are being milked and not fed with a focus on the short run.
What is measurable may not be all that matters.
Increasingly smart brands are not only fixating only on online media but are thinking about experience stacks including real world experiences from stores to out of home, immersive media and much more. Out of home grew 8 percent last year !
3. The Definition of Creativity and why there are two types of Creativity.
One day someone told Sir John that the greatest art of all might be music.
Sir John believed it might be the second greatest art for and the greatest of all art is human life.
Human life is an act of creativity.
Sir John defines creativity as follows: Creativity is an expression of self.
Listen to the greatest creative people and you will hear them saying:
“Here is what I wanted to say”
“This is what I wanted to show”
“What I am trying to build”
There are two types of creativity one is pure and the other is applied.
Pure creativity is a spark that leads to the iPhone, creating the Simpsons or designing the Guggenheim in Bilboa. and also drives the greatest iconic works of art, product design and brand building.
Applied creativity is creating the next version of the iPhone, a new episode of The Simpsons or designing the stairs inside the Guggenheim.
Pure creativity is the greatest wealth creator and generator of growth ever.
Creativity drives innovation and the best creativity does not come from A/B testing, mathematics or focus groups.
It feeds on curiosity, instinct, exposure to differing perspectives, feelings and things that do not compute.
This AI versioning is not creativity that builds brands and growth but a smart way to get variations of a theme cost effectively get the lower funnel sale of a Brand that was which was built due to a different form of creativity.
A human creativity of self expression and not a machine variation of optimization and data co-relation.
AI will unleash human creativity but will not replace human creativity.
4. Advice to established leaders and young people
Sir John has suggested that too many leaders fail to lead.
Lots of arrogance and hubris but basically followers, data clutchers, herd like buzz word bingo chanters.
Leadership is about having courage.
The big leaders step ahead, march to different drummers, take risks on intuition, ideas and instinct.
While Sir John did not mention that they should zig vs others zag I could not mentioning this since the symbol of BBH is the black sheep. If you have not seen what this means check out these ads that defined an era and established valuable profitable brands including Audi, Levi’s, Johnnie Walker and many more.
For young people his advice is to find and do something one loves. Do not just follow the data. Play more. Play is stepping forth with the the lack of rules.
A master class on creativity and thriving as a human in an AI age. Take a listen and you will be moved. Here are Apple and Spotify links but all on podcast platforms globally.
More on Creativity.
In the latest The Rethinking Work show an artist and musician turned architect who founded a design firm called FYOOG which is now part of IA one of the world’s largest architectural firm on how to re-imagine space to create meaning, inspire ideas and true interaction. If you want to unleash your team and firms creativity take a look and see spaces that soar and much more. You can watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify or Apple.
And a call for Creative Works!
The art work for this issue comes from Britton Bloch who is an artist, studying for her PhD and is Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition Strategy & Head of Recruiting at Navy Federal Credit Union. Britton also reads this thought letter very much like Karin Onsager-Birch another reader whose work was featured last week and Susan Swinand a few months ago. Do you have art, music, video or photography you would like me to feature in this thought letter? If so please send me a note.