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Category: Work

Posted on November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

When You Have A Creative Mind, You Are Never Bored

“When you have a creative mind, you are never bored.” My podcast guest, Oscar Venhuis dropped that gem in our conversation. Oscar is the CEO of EQ Lab in Hong Kong and he is deeply interested in “extending the intelligence” of organizations.

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Posted on November 15, 2020

Creative People Are Hard to Hire

Creative people are hard to hire because the hiring process struggles to identify them.

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Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

Casual Conversations Are Essential Like Vitamins

When was the last time you had an unscheduled conversation with an acquaintance? In my case, they are now rare. Which is sad.

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Posted on August 27, 2020

Be Bold and Honest

Why do we find it so hard to say what we mean? My work colleague, Ryan Stott, and I try to get to the bottom of why we struggle to communicate.

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Posted on August 24, 2020August 24, 2020

It’s Time to Get Brutally Honest About Purpose

I was recently asked if I have a defined purpose. The question cut through me like a cold wind passing through an abandoned building. I looked inside myself and found… nothing.

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Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020

Good Ideas Are Between the Cracks

Photo of Tim Horan contemplating cracks in a slab of concrete.

Machines do not come up with ideas. They can filter massive amounts of data to identify patterns but that is not the same as imagination. The creative spark that gives birth to ideas resides within the organic.

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Posted on May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

Timbo Talks About Where Ideas Come From

Photo of Tim Horan, podcaster and writer, with his face close to cracked concrete.

It is a terrible crime to keep a podcast microphone confined in a box and locked up in the garage. So, today I renounce my criminal ways and restart my podcast on what I intend to be a weekly schedule.

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Posted on May 4, 2020May 5, 2020

The Gods Will Not Reward You Without Sacrifice

Tim Horan photographed against a concrete wall with his arms stretched wide.

Words have power. Well, they did… but most words are now impotent or at worst, lifeless. We have overused, abused, and rendered them powerless.

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Posted on October 26, 2019October 26, 2019

You Don’t Need to Teach Birds to Fly

Tim Horan with Zorro the wedge-tailed eagle.

Creative people are a big problem for business.

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Posted on October 12, 2019October 12, 2019

Remember to Look Up

How often do you encounter the word ‘experience’? I’d say daily if you work in marketing or communications, because it’s serious business.

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I’m Tim – a writer, editor, and photographer from Sydney, Australia. Here I talk about work, play, and everything in between.

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