The Joy Of Doing Nothing
This sounds impossible. Unless you spend time in meditation every day, then you probably never do nothing. You are always moving from one thing to the next – wake up, use the bathroom,…
February 22, 2021ways we innovate: 60 uses in two minutes
They say that good artists borrow, but great artists steal, so consider this taken from the great dancer, Twyla Tharp. In her book, The Creative Habit, she outlined a creativity exercise which…
July 20, 2020Are You Seeing The Future?
Blending Signals To Envision The Future In a previous post, I mentioned that for some, foreseeing the future is challenging. Not sure why, since the signals of the future are all around…
June 15, 2020Ways We Innovate: Lobby Watch
Here is an interesting exercise in judging your companies employee engagement. It requires a few days of effort and keen observation. First, block out your calendar for weekday mornings and afternoons, preferably…
February 23, 2020Ways We Innovate: Take the Hour Off
In many of our ideation sessions, we try to undertake unusual exercises to attempt to break people out of their linear and heads-down thinking. These range from physical movements, to mental games,…
August 19, 2019Ways We Innovate: Randomized Lunching.
Ever wonder why your rideshare driver is way more chatty than your typical cab driver? They may be doing this less for the money and more for the social interaction. I was…
September 30, 2018Ways We Innovate: Ask “Why Do We Still…”
With all of the new technologies and ways of doing things seem better and faster, do you ever wonder why we sometimes cling to the old ways of doing things? Why even…
July 16, 2018Ways We Innovate: Think Further Out
Expand Your Time Horizon – Think Further Out When we ran our first enterprise-wide innovation program, we were gathering all sorts of great ideas from our client employees, but there was something…
November 14, 2017Ways We Innovate: Repurposing
Repurposing: It’s Not Just For Trash, Anymore One of the most effective exercises that we use in our innovation sessions is to actively take an object – any object – any object…
August 3, 2017Ways We Innovate: Think Like A Kid
To Innovate: Be A Kid Again You can’t beat kids when it comes to new, innovative, out-of-the-box thinking. I mean, not all kids, but those fearless try-anything-because-they-don’t-know not-to kinds of kids. I…
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