The CreativeMornings theme for June was Curate. This global-theme was selected by the Orange County chapter of CreativeMornings, who framed it as a shift from simply knowing or creating toward the harder skill of choosing, shaping, and sequencing. Based on my previous tenure working at a contemporary art museum, and having read the theme’s framing a few days before the event, I thought I had a decent handle on where the morning was headed.
I did not.
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The Creative Mornings theme for May was Create, and the local speaker was Giovannie Dixon – LA-born Jamaican-American artist, muralist, and about as self-taught as it gets. The early morning chat took place at Ignite Sparked by BBB in downtown Phoenix – comfortable, bright, built for entrepreneurs and the people who think like them. It’s the kind of place that makes you want to get busy immediately. Maybe start a podcast. Enter the co-working vs cubicle debate. Question business “truths” more this week than you did last week.
That last one turned out to be more relevant than I expected.
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A quick introduction before we dive in to discuss the Creative Mornings Phoenix event – I’m Chris, part of the leadership team at FlexTal. If you’ve visited our blog before, you know our content typically lives in the world of workforce strategy, flexible talent, and the future of how companies get work done. All important stuff. But our digital team has been nudging me for a while, asking me to take over the feed every now and then and share something a little more personal – so welcome to The Back Burner, where I’ll surface the ideas, observations, and occasional rabbit holes that don’t always make it into the main feed. Personal ramblings from someone who has spent 25+ years working as a freelancer, but who’s also logged his fair share of time in corporate cubicles.
So here I am. Fair warning: these posts may occasionally involve things like corporate events and musings about workforce solutions, but more than likely I’ll end up in rabbit-holes on ideas that have little or nothing to do with staffing models or hiring decisions – think of this space as a blank canvas to have you join in on the conversations I have with myself when I’m stuck in the desert, bumper-to-bumper, on I-10 during my commute.
This is one of those.
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