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Your Elevator Pitch

Sand for Your Inbox February 2007 Ever sat next to a potential client or employer on an airplane flight and wished you had a quick pitch prepared? Ever been at a loss for the right words while riding the company elevator? [...]

Your Elevator Pitch

New Year’s Resolution That’ll Stick – Inbox Sand, Jan. ’07

Happy New Year! Looking for a New Year's Resolution you may be able to sustain for the year... or for at least a few months? This month I offer a practical and stick-to-able New Year's Resolution that you just may adopt [...]

New Year’s Resolution That’ll Stick – Inbox Sand, Jan. ’07

New Year’s Resolution: Comp Yourself

The beginning of a new year is resolution season. How do you avoid the let-down, after you have enthusiastically created resolutions for a new year, starting with a clean slate, and by February you've stopped working at them? Here is a [...]

New Year’s Resolution: Comp Yourself

Keeping Your Battery Charged

If you're like me... being tired = becoming cranky (or is it 'hangry?') and low energy = low ideas. Avoid being tired and low energy with the collection of practical and realistic ways to help restore and maintain your energy level. [...]

Keeping Your Battery Charged

Take Your Inner Child To Work Day

When it comes to curiosity and creative problem solving, kids have the process down pat. They are expert problem solvers. (Only a kid can transform an oversized box into a lunar lander!) Having this imagination around the office can be pretty [...]

Take Your Inner Child To Work Day

Be An Explorist, Let Travel Inspire Ideas

Traveling offers a perfect opportunity for creative inspiration. Experiencing out-of-the-ordinary sites, sounds, tastes, people, and culture helps stimulate out-of-the-ordinary thinking and ideas. Get the Inside Scoop Before you leave for your destination, consult insider/underground guides for the places you are visiting. [...]

Be An Explorist, Let Travel Inspire Ideas

Take A Step Back, Then Look For More

Often what we identify as a problem or opportunity isn’t the true problem. At times our focus may be too narrow preventing us from solving the larger issue causing the problem. Let’s imagine we operate a specialty wine, cheese, and bread [...]

Take A Step Back, Then Look For More

Brainstorming: Let Mother Nature Provide Solutions

A time-tested technique for problem-solving is to take your challenge out of context and look at it from a different perspective. One context we all can relate to is nature. Mother Nature offers much for us to learn. To generate solutions with the help [...]

Brainstorming: Let Mother Nature Provide Solutions

Pause Before You Pounce On Ideas

New ideas can lead to innovations. Often the speed at which we conduct business causes us to make rapid decisions. As a result, we may be robbing ourselves of good ideas. New ideas can be fragile things. We’ve all experienced it... [...]

Pause Before You Pounce On Ideas

How Would *They* Solve It?

When you’ve got a problem to solve if often helps to get advice from various friends, family members, mentors, and colleagues. But there are other resources you can call on as well. You may use what you know about famous people [...]

How Would *They* Solve It?
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