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Creativity & Magic Secrets Revealed

We view those blessed with the gift of creativity with awe. Their imaginative ideas and creative problem solving skills surprise us - the way a good magician works. How did he do that? We’re left amazed and ooo-ing and ahh-ing. Creative? [...]

Creativity & Magic Secrets Revealed

To Be Creative, Keep Feeding Your Mind

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 [...]

To Be Creative, Keep Feeding Your Mind

Don’t Blame The Boomerang When It Doesn’t Return

When I was six or seven years old, my grandfather took a trip to Australia and brought me back a boomerang. While I thought it was the coolest thing, no matter how much I practiced throwing it, it would never come [...]

Don’t Blame The Boomerang When It Doesn’t Return

Curiosity Creates New Paths

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

Curiosity Creates New Paths

7 Steps To Build Your Annual Plan Like A Pro

Whenever we get toward the end of the year, we start thinking about next year. The plans, programs, and activities will allow us to meet and exceed our goals. Here are our seven steps to building your annual plan like a [...]

7 Steps To Build Your Annual Plan Like A Pro

Disney Brainstorming Method: Dreamer, Realist, and Spoiler

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 [...]

Disney Brainstorming Method: Dreamer, Realist, and Spoiler

How To Be Cooler Than Your Competition

Alexander Calderwood, co-foudner of the Ace Hotel, was interviewed in the '10 issue of Entrepreneur magazine. In addition to an interesting article, reporter Jennifer Wang summarized Calderwood's philosophy on how to be cooler than the competition. Three years later the Ace is just [...]

How To Be Cooler Than Your Competition

How Would You Describe Brand Personality?

POINT: John MooreThe surest way a brand will form emotional connections with customers is through its unique personality. It’s also the surest (and strongest) way for us to form emotional connections with people. Think about your close circle of friends. Each [...]

How Would You Describe Brand Personality?
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