Brainstorming for Busy Leaders
Unstructured brainstorming offends creativity. Don’t sit around tossing out ideas.
Tighten your approach. Ask the right question.
Discover specific questions that make brainstorming useful.
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Don’t Get Swallowed by the Giant Hairball
Organizations are like giant hairballs. Stacks of rules, red tape, sacred cows, and memos from 1998.
Gordon MacKenzie, the corporate misfit at Hallmark, encouraged people to orbit the hairball. Don’t get sucked into it.
Stay tethered to your organization but not tangled in bureaucracy. You’re irrelevant when you’re too far out.
How to Use Imagination Today
The line between imagination and reality is fuzzy when you’re 3-years old. Sadly, we outgrow pretend. Everything in the real world began with imagination. Imagination: Maya, our youngest granddaughter, baked cookies for us… Continue reading
Choose to Hug New Ideas Before Killing Them
People learn to keep their mouths shut when new ideas face a firing squad.
Exploring an idea is different from agreeing with it.
3 Reasons Variety is Essential
Common wisdom deceives you. You’re boring because some knucklehead said: You fall behind if you continue doing the same things, even when you’re doing great today. 3 reasons variety is essential: #1. Variety… Continue reading
A Delightful Accident
I like soft fudge. A little softer than Play-Doh is perfect. The original maker of Play-Doh was a soap company, Kutol Products. It was used for 20 years to clean wallpaper. It’s use… Continue reading