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Adoption & Negotiations: Trauma leads to creative life

Adoption & Negotiations: Trauma leads to creative life

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Becoming: Christmas Fantasy
I knew the scene I envisioned wouldn’t get the result I wanted.
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Becoming: Pushing Back
Strong.
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Becoming: Given up
Becoming: Given up
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Think Small
Rumors suggest Omnicom may discard the DDB brand –– icon of creative advertising.
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Becoming: Camp
Challenges become opportunities to learn and connect
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The shit is hitting the fan
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Becoming: Everything changed
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Insight: You're fired
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Becoming: A Perfect Holiday
“Betty, where’d you put the big platter.
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The shit is hitting the fan
Job losses hitting creative services.
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Insight: You're fired
Instead of “I was canned, therefore I failed,” think, “Those assholes just gave me a new life.”
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Becoming: The Penny-Crushing Machine
A moment when others' limiting assessments gave ground to a hint of a talent-driven future.
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Becoming: With Cars, I Felt Strong
How the neighborhood "cool kid" showed style and persona buttress confidence from childhood to adulthood.
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The well runs dry
How a perfect storm of declining revenue led to opportunities for creativity, prosperity, and community.
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Ambiguity
How a client's ambiguity inspired complex emotions in a team member, threatening mutuality and success.
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Elevating Client Conversations
Asking questions deepens and enriches conversations, helping us build relationships with clients beyond the immediate project.
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Becoming: Protest
Consequential missed opportunities from our past have a way of nudging us throughout our lives.
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Short Take: The three-step close
How do you get a client to commit in the moment?
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Becoming: Bigotry absorbed
Dad pulled up and, looking at us, rolled down the window.
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Short Take: Ad spend up; agencies laying off
Cost-cutting, from Friday’s Campaign:
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