Leadership: What we can all learn from Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead in Navigating Organizational Change
“Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, an extraordinarily proficient blues guitarist and explorer of his…
Author: Deke Copenhaver
Why soundbites and rhetoric by politicians have never fixed anything and they never will.
Every election cycle we hear the same thing from parties on either side: “Washington is broken and with your vote I’ll go up there and fix…
Painting pictures with words: Why I never use Powerpoint Presentations
So, we’ve all sat through that speech that went way too long with way too many slides in the powerpoint presentation. Ultimately we squirm…
Sharing Life Lessons: Why Medium is such a powerful tool for living, learning and passing it on.
In life I’ve come to the conclusion that the more I learn the more I realize how truly little I really know.
True Confessions of a former mayor: How to keep your indie street cred intact in the world of…
Okay. So I’ll admit it. The terms “indie street cred” and “politics” have probably never been uttered in the same sentence. There’s…
Age: Why it’s an attitude, not a number and what we can learn from our younger selves.
“I’ve often felt that people ought to be more child-like, not childish mind you, but child-like on the wonder of the world that’s around…
Leadership: How what I learned through watching stewardesses helped me guide Augusta through the…
We’ve all been there before. The plane you’re traveling on hits turbulence. Not just your regular type of turbulence but the type that has…
Lessons my father taught me: never speak just to hear yourself talk.
My dad was a man of few words. He often said to me more in what he didn’t say than what he actually did. Roy Clark, the country music…
Why a blending of cultures is a major component of vibrant and thriving cities everywhere.
Cities are nothing if not beautiful melting pots of cultures where the constant interaction of ideas and attitudes can lead to friction at…
Cities and Universities: Why the Town and Gown Bond Really Matters.
Universities are hotbeds of intellectual capital teaming with bright young minds that every city that they reside in would like to continue…