Confused? Great time to use your imagination.
The best time to use your imagination is when you feel confused. Confusion occurs when familiar boundaries disappear. The word confusion comes from two Greek words: Con meaning with and fusion meaning two things melting together. Normally we know where one thing ends and another begins. We get confused when those separating lines or [...]
read moreWhy do people say no? Collecting thoughts
I’m often brought into companies who want to overcome hurdles to innovation. They want to move forward and at the same time are reluctant to adopt new strategies and metrics, and to influence new behaviours and attitudes to create new futures. What’s that all about? Time and again the largest obstacle to moving innovation forward [...]
read moreBoomer Creativity may be on the Rise
Our friends at Idea Champions prepared this slide show to prove creativity is available to people who are 50+. If that’s you, a quick flip through will surely put a smile on your face and breathe some inspiration to your soul. Creativity Late in Life
read moreCreative thinking techniques: New link, nice collection.
Want to update your reference links for creativity tools, methods and techniques? Here’s a nice collection. http://www.squidoo.com/creative-techniques#module48231882 Related articles The No. 1 Reason We Don’t Think Creatively (businessinsider.com) Does Education Stifle Creativity? (psychologytoday.com)
read moreFor Managers: 10 things NOT to say in the new millennium workplace
Are you or your managers looking for ways to engage people in the workplace? Do you want more creativity on the job day-to-day, are you seeking fresh ideas and new decisions? Businessweek ran a post that might interest you called 10 Things Only Bad Managers Say by Liz Ryan an expert on the new-millennium workplace [...]
read moreA 2-minute online interactive creativity exercise
Here’s a creativity exercise for you that’s fun and has a purpose. It may also give your creativity a boost. Fun: Click Draw a Stickman link for two minutes of interactive fun. Purpose: In what ways did the Draw a Stickman experience remind you of your creativity? and inspire your creativity? Creativity Boost: In what [...]
read moreDecision Fatigue, does it interfere with creativity?
Is it possible that decision fatigue influences people’s willingness to engage in creativity and innovation? In what ways might decision fatigue impact the quality or quantity of new ideas generated/sought or new decisions made? Read on… from Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? – NYTimes.com. “The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder [...]
read moreIs consistency related to creativity? and other thought starters
First the warm up Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde) One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. (A.A. Milne) Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right. (Isaac Asimov) Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. [...]
read moreWhat's the big deal about creativity?
Let’s face it, people use their creativity everyday, even you. You create mash-ups, make new decisions, use your imagination, combine existing elements into new patterns and relationships and more, and not necessarily because you want to. As conditions continue to change more rapidly than ever you adapt, we all adapt. For example with the growth [...]
read moreCoveting what others have and creativity
Coveting = desiring The 10th commandment reads “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share a version of the sentiment toward coveting. Made me think. Does it [...]
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