We place too much emphasis on formal education, and not enough credit is given to the people who get out there and do something. Many creatives are impatient with traditional forms of schooling and are consumed by a need to be working in their art. So they make something happen. Your education and technical know…

We place too much emphasis on formal education, and not enough credit is given to the people who get out there and do something. Many creatives are impatient with traditional forms of schooling and are consumed by a need to be working in their art. So they make something happen. Your education and technical know…

The creative person is a jazz musician (improvising and experimenting) living in a pop music world (formula thinking, tried and true). When the two worlds collide, there can be a fusion and some pretty impressive music, or an explosion. Why are some people so difficult to deal with? There are several reasons, among them the…

They steal your ideas, destroy your deadlines, talk about you behind your back, take advantage of your generosity, criticize you and your ideas, and sabotage your success. They manifest as, and morph into, several different forms, but they’re all difficult people. Understanding them may help you to learn to deal with them. I like to…

My favorite way to deal with difficult people is not to get involved with them in the first place. If you know from their past behavior they aren’t easy to go along with, put some distance between you. If you don’t have any background on them, trust what your intuition says about them. Unfortunately, you…