At Idea Sandbox we talk a lot about being childlike and using your imagination... how solving problems is about creativity and how creativity is driven by your ability to imagine new ideas... I found this interesting bit about being more like [...]
As problem solvers our role is to support companies, clients, and customers by solving their business problems. We’re asked to help drive sales, increase traffic, and build community. These challenges, and others, are solved through our ability to combine ideas in [...]
Leonard Stern, the inventor of the "World's Greatest Word Game" Mad Libs, passed away in June of 2011 at the age of 88. In his honor, I've created a "Better Brainstorming" Mad Lib. Mad Libs - as a creativity tool - [...]
Einstein once said, "imagination is better than knowledge." It is more important to see possibilities than to know the facts. Dan Roam, in his book Unfolding the Napkin, wrote: "Problems don't get solved by the smartest or the fastest or the [...]
Did you see the article last week in USA Today about the teacher who is selling ads on tests to make money to afford to make copies? Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, California [...]
The weather is warming up here in Amsterdam... We've had a week of sun and temperatures in the mid-70s. It's ice cream weather, which brings to mind creative problem solving and the invention of the ice cream cone. In September 1904 [...]
Are you as impressed as I am about the attention the Simpsons movie is getting? They've done a great job promoting it. The best tactic was the transformation of 7-Eleven locations into Kwik-E-Marts. These are the convenience stores in the cartoon [...]
