The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.