Convos (Blog)
Applied creativity and inventive thinking for regular people in everyday life.
Find Your North
I don’t need Spotify Wrapped or Apple Music Replay or Miro Recap (nod to my facilitator nerds). I just need a few minutes to rest, reflect and renew. Last week, I committed to two reflection-related tasks: 1) I joined Chris Taylor’s Preloaded Year workshop, and 2) I completed the Year Compass for 2026.
The IKEA Effect
It is not uncommon to have an affection for the things we build. Juliet Funt, High Performance Expert, calls this tendency as “The IKEA Effect.” In short, we like what we built because we were involved in building it. And the opposite is true: We like what other people built less, because we did not play a role in building it. This bias clouds our thinking.
Describe It For Me
Recently, I’ve been doing some program mapping with groups. On paper everything looks great. But the teams feel unsettled. They know they have too much on their plates. They have no room left to innovate. Where to cut? Where to refocus? Where to create space? Where to begin?