Essay

This essay series examines best-in-class business and strategy models, and adapts them for use by creative enterprises. Check out the first essay for a short introduction, or dive right into the model below. — Strong companies have strong identities. Internally, their cultures act as a guiding framework for how to act and how to decide. Externally, their…

Continue reading Mission, Vision and Values – Part 1: Why you need them, and how to define them

Running a creative enterprise is hard. On the one hand, you’re grappling with creative challenges like figuring out how to do your best work, and defining your creative identity and vision. On the other hand, you also have to deal with the challenges of running a business: dealing with competition; defining, finding and engaging your…

Continue reading Why Creative Enterprises Need Strategy Too

What a long, weird, exhausting year 2020 was. For me, this year has been one of conscious decisions. This started when COVID-19 was still a theoretical problem rather than an extremely practical one. I had read GRIP, the Dutch productivity bible by Rick Pastoor, and wanted to try out his system. I tweaked it to…

Continue reading Annual Review 2020

After such a tumultuous year, I wanted to share some of the books, games, movies, and songs that made my year a little better. Now, something to keep in mind as you go through this list is that, as the father of a toddler, I do not have a lot of free time. What time…

Continue reading My Favorite Things of 2020