Try a Virtual Failure to help build Success

Jurgen Wolff

I heard this story from creative thinking expert Jurgen Wolff.   Steve Loranger, CEO of ITT Industries, shared this technique with Business 2.0:  ”If you’re working on an important contract, a ‘must-win’ program, give your team a much shorter deadline than actually exists.  Afterward you tell your team, ‘I just got a phone [...]

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Freewriting – a method for unblocking creativity

Freewriting is a personal creativity technique that is particularly useful when you have hit a mental roadblock.  You simply write the challenge or topic at the top of a large piece of paper and then start writing.  You can write anything related to the topic.  Here are the rules of freewriting as given by Natalie [...]

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100 Ways to get Ideas

Ideas are the seedcorn of innovation. We need a large supply of them. Are you sometimes stuck for ideas? Here is an interesting blog by Steve Aitchison in which he gives 100 ways to generate ideas for articles for a blog. The principles work for almost any other requirement to generate ideas. So the next [...]

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Run Creative Ideas Events

If there is an important issue that needs some creative ideas then set a specific challenge for it and run an ideas event. A regular brainstorm or ideation meeting is fine but why not add some excitement with a different approach?

Here are the sorts of events you could run:

• A lunchtime brainstorm with [...]

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