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I'm convinced that the juiciest jobs are ones at the intersection of multiple worlds. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, "Help Wanted: Creative Types", advertising agencies report difficulty in filling the top job, chief creative officer.  Photo by Andreanna Moya Photography. Why? A few quotes from the article: ""We are dealing with a massive…

Fabulous quote, from book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, by Donald Miller: "The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person's story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don't want anything, we are living boring stories, and if we want…

If I were twenty years younger, I would go back to school. I would return to my alma mater, Northwestern University, and enroll in the engineering school again (yes, again!), so I could learn about design and complex networks and product development.  I was probably the only reader of the recent magazine for engineering alumni…

Video of recent event w/Dan Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind along with blog post here: http://bit.ly/9XuY9r

In my recent interview with Dan Pink for the Northwestern Club of Colorado, we covered a number of topics: from why persistence trumps talent (to which I chimed in that persistence/commitment also trumps passion), to why an education guru under the older Bush administration reversed her stand on ways to improve schools, to what Dan…