Sandy Greene, Author at Boxes and Arrows

Author: Sandy Greene

Sandy has been Intuitive Company’s Creative Director since our humble beginnings and is a constant driving force of quality and innovation. Sandy previously was the Interface Design Director for Chase and directed the team responsible for all Chase public marketing and secure banking online experiences. Having graduated in 1989 from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and focus on Interaction Design, he’s worked in small to medium sized digital and print agencies in NYC and Philadelphia, from hands-on Designer to Director. In addition to all the accomplishments, few know that Sandy sports a creative past as Art Director for a small independent record label (Bar/None Records in Hoboken), an indie-rock magazine (Big Takeover), and developed an ID Magazine award-winning furniture line (eat your heart out, IKEA). He’s also the proud owner of a car his kids think is cool, especially since acquiring the after-market rims.

February 11, 2014 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 8

That old cliché isn’t true: all good things don’t have to come to an end. It’s possible to prepare your team for ongoing success and growth, but you have to be smart about how you do it. In this series I’ve shared what’s worked for us at Intuitive Company. How we thought of our team as an organic garden and realized that once we had all of the right elements established, we didn’t need to mess with things too much.

January 28, 2014 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 7

After discussing how to prepare, plant, water, fertilize, till and experiment with and then observe and protect your organic garden of a team, I’m happy to announce that the last two steps are quite fun. You’ve worked hard to grow your business and have made the necessary tweaks along the way. Things couldn’t be better. Or could they? Picking comes next, and it’s a way to recognize the highest achievers and celebrate successes.

January 14, 2014 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 6

In this series, I’ve been using an organic garden analogy to describe how we’ve grown Intuitive Company sevenfold over the past five years. In previous installments I gave advice on how to prepare your organization for growth, and what it means to plant the right people into the mix, water and add fertilizer to encourage success, and then till and experiment to continue pushing yourselves. Now comes time for observing and protecting. We’ve been thrilled to watch Intuitive Company grow

December 31, 2013 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 5

In this ongoing discussion about growing creative teams organically, I’ve shared how to prepare your organization for successful expansion, how to plant the right elements into the mix, how to “water” for sustainable growth, and then how adding fertilizer can take your group’s motivation to the next level. Tilling and experimenting follow once everything’s been humming along smoothly for a while. Changing things up can breathe fresh air into a culture, as well as offer lessons about what works and

December 17, 2013 Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

Evolving a Creative Workplace: Step 4

So far in this series I’ve discussed how to prepare your team or organization for successful expansion, how to plant the right elements into the mix, and then how to ensure sustainable growth by “watering.” Adding fertilizer comes next. Think of this step as finding ways to spark excitement, provide motivational guidance, or even remedy a malady.