As an independent design professional at the moment, I enjoy a lot of personal freedom.  With that personal freedom comes personal responsibility, and sometimes I struggle with that.  Luckily for creative workers like me, there are tools out there we can use to impose structure on our otherwise fractured and whimsical minds.  In my case, that tool is Elance. Every since I was fortuitously granted a contract to work with Silicon Valley Startup Trymph, Inc on their word games Spell Me Right and Unscramble This, my work…

And just to be clear, I’m talking about trust in the context of a team. Trust is certainly a valid concern on a sports team. As a matter of fact, Mike Krzyzewski—“Coach K” with Duke University Basketball for 40 years—offers this statement in his book Leading with the Heart: “In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved.” But my focus is on…