Leave Competitors In The Dust By Designing Experience From The Top Down

by Nicholas McGill | Jul 17, 2016 | Brand, Design, Featured, Field Notes, Heroik Culture, Leadership, Management, Work Culture

Technology has enabled a global, always-on market. The speed of disruption is eroding industries that were once rock solid. Consumers have more options than ever before. In fact, they have so many options, that there are entire new industries to help them decide and...

Their Software is Defining Your Culture: How to Ensure YOUR Culture is Present On The Screen

by Nicholas McGill | Jul 11, 2016 | Featured, Work Culture

When you think about what influences culture, what comes to mind? Do you  think about content, video, audio, pictures, executive memos, value statements, ethics, and posters? I bet software didn’t make the list. And yet software is prolific throughout virtually every...

Reflect & Believe: A Taste of Heroikology

by Nicholas McGill | Dec 29, 2015 | Becoming Heroik, Field Notes, Heroik Culture, Lifestyle, Personal Development, Work Culture

The spiritual technology of personal empowerment not only leads to transformation of one’s life and work. It also brings new capabilities, a vision of new opportunities and a dirigible architecture that allows us to elevate ourselves, our communities and endeavors....

Time, Energy and Attention, Where are You Pouring Your TEA?

by Nicholas McGill | Dec 11, 2015 | Becoming Heroik, Field Notes, Heroik Culture, Innovation Lab, Lifestyle, Paper Practice, Simplicity, Work Culture

Track This: Where and how you spend your focused attention; time, energy and attention. The most important metric or currency of  these days seems to be our focused, attention time, composed of time, energy and attention (TEA). The modern audience of potential...

The Art of Speaking Visually: How Images Drive Action

by Nicholas McGill | Aug 18, 2015 | Communication, Marketing, Paper Practice, Strategy, Work Culture

The way we communicate has changed forever. Talk is cheap and a picture is worth a thousand words right? Yet how many in your organization are visually conversant in the new language? How many on your team are digitally literate? How many are at least visually...

Go 5G: Upgrade Your Life With These 5 Words

by Nicholas McGill | Feb 18, 2015 | Becoming Heroik, Brand, Field Notes, Heroik Culture, Lifestyle, Personal Development, Simplicity, Work Culture

I take on new themes every year. Often they are small phrases or tiny one word concepts that help me improve my life. Believe me, you can spend a lifetime appreciating the implications of seemingly small words. Here are 5 G-words whose lessons will bring you greater...