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This week’s Resource Recommendation is Best Practices Are Stupid – 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition by Stephen M. Shapiro. This is a book about creativity and innovation. And this is a book about organizational change. It is mostly about examining sacred cows (i.e. best practices) and recognizing that perhaps (in some cases) the best [...]
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It’s my sister Paula’s birthday. Several years ago I wrote a post on her birthday, and later I wrote a post about ways to celebrate your birthday. I reprise and update them today, as a way to tell my little Sis happy birthday, and give us all something to think about . . . Happy [...]
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This week’s Resource Recommendation is Little Bets — How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims. This book was recommended to me by Tim Sanders during a teleseminar I hosted last month for our Remarkable Leadership Learning System Members and a few guests. When I received my copy a few days later, I [...]
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Brainstorming – the creation of new or possible ideas – is a critical part of any problem solving or creative process. We all know it. We know that we must have ideas in order find solutions to problems. We even know that the more ideas we find, the better chance we’ll have of creating the [...]
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Yesterday I posted my weekly Powerquote – with questions, action steps and a commentary focused around a quotation from Francis Bacon about wonder (read it here). As I was writing the post, I thought about a piece I wrote many years ago, that became a chapter in my book Vantagepoints on Learning and Life. Because [...]
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Do you want to be more creative? Would you like your team to be more creative too? It all starts with one critical factor. It isn’t about techniques or strategies or how Einstein was creative. It isn’t about hiring more creatively gifted people either. The seed of the answer is implied in the title of [...]
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Voltaire is attributed with the aphorism ”The perfect is the enemy of the good.” You’ve heard others say, “Ready, fire, aim.” I say, “Messy success is better than perfect mediocrity.” And while you may be nodding your head in agreement with one or more of these statements, it doesn’t take long to think, “yes, but what about [...]
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Today I read a post called The Planes of Tomorrow on the Think Like a Beginner blog. The post talks about NASA inviting major aircraft manufacturers to submit designs for the future. According to the post NASA asked that “[E]ach design has to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound; cover a range [...]
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Yesterday, members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System had the chance to participate in a call with Paul Sloane, international best selling author and expert in both leadership and lateral thinking (here’s his website). Paul shared a string of fabulous ideas and techniques to help everyone be more effective at both problem solving and innovation. [...]
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