Do you sometimes wish you had an easier way to organize or gather your thoughts? Ever been working on a presentation, proposal, or to-do list and didn't know where to start or where you were going to go? A map would [...]
To be and stay creative, keep feeding your mind new ideas and information. Try new things. Visit new places; different parts of the world. Take a different route home from work. Learn a new language. Read Wikipedia entries about topics you [...]
When a scientist or engineer designs a new process, they run into many unknowns. You can expect that when creating something from scratch. However, they could have so many unknowns, if they tried to solve each as they occurred, they'd get [...]
Ever wonder why great ideas seem to pop into your head at the strangest (and now and then inopportune) times? Like when you're... falling asleep, in the shower, or working out? It's not a coincidence. These are times when your body [...]
Film producer and innovator Walt Disney used to think-up and refine ideas by breaking the process into three distinct chunks. The dreamer, the realist, and the spoiler (or critic). The Dreamer This stage was for fantasizing. Creating the most fantastic and [...]
Time management optimization. I'm always looking for different and effective ways to enhance time management. I've learned that better managing what you have to do frees you up for what you want to do. I've bumped into a novel approach to [...]
One of the best starting points for a strategy session is at the end of it. Starting by clearly expressing what the end results should be, serves as a clear target for participants to aim for. I'm talking about more than [...]
One of the reasons we find brainstorming intimidating is that some people are better than others in squeezing ideas out of their heads. These people - while amazing because they seem to have magical powers and some conduit to divine inspiration [...]
A fair amount of writing about brainstorming emphasizes not judging ideas too soon. A plethora of criticism about brainstorming argues it isn't critical enough. No matter how you think-up ideas, eventually they must prove themselves worthy of helping you meet your [...]
As we climb the corporate ladder, we catch on that people on the lower rungs do the tactical, heavy work. Further up the ladder, they get to sit at desks and focus on strategy. So, we set our sights on the [...]