Participative & Energetic Meeting Here are a few tips to get you started with your next innovative team to ensure a more participative and energetic meeting. Hold the meeting at a time (prior to break or lunch) and in an environment conducive to communication. Keep the meeting Be well prepared in advance …
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Finding the Essence Here are some examples of how large corporations help their employees successfully work in teams. At Cambridge Technology Partners, a software development firm, there are four rules for fast teams: Let groups make their own rules. Teams must be in charge of their own destiny. Speak up early and often. If …
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Lessons From Geese As each bird flaps it’s wings, it creates an uplift for others behind them. There is 71% more flying range by flying in a V-formation than flying alone. Lesson 1: People who share a common direction and sense of common purpose can get there quicker. Whenever a goose flies out of …
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Team Think Working on innovation and creativity with a team can return multiples of rewards providing the team has good chemistry. A badly organized Team Think is more than a waste of time. It is damaging. Any collection of individuals will work. The trick is to have a good Team Think leader. A leader …
Random Association – Connect The Words Let’s try putting some random words together to see what kinds of creativity sparks it can generate. Grab your paper and pen and get writing. Develop a list of 20 random words. The first words that come to your mind. (Also, fun to do as a group). …
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Random Association – Word Association This time you get three words. It will be your job to read the three words and write down a word that has the three previous words in common. The first one is an example. Call Pay Line Phone 1. End Burning Blue 2. Man Hot …
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Random Association – Movie Titles 6 Movie Titles Here’s another activity. Use your pad and writing device and write down six of your favorite movie titles. Titles _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Now, choose any two of the titles, then combine the plots. Write down …
Random Association – Wikipedia Finding random ideas, believe it or not, can sometimes be difficult. We always seem to look in the same place. Here’s a tip to find truly random ideas. Wikipedia. At times thearticles are helpful and other times they are just nonsense. If the article makes no sense, click …
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The Absurdity Continues Here are a few absurd questions I asked myself over the year and returned some astounding surprises. 1978: What if you could get a computer to speak to you? 1985: What if you spoke to a computer and it did what you asked? 1986: What if you could control a mouse …
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Innovation Or Random Association – Smart Phone Here’s another random association. Who would have thought by combining the functions of a laptop into a cell phone would be a good idea… Steve Jobs, that’s who. Lon Safko Serial Innovator, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Innovative Thinking Tags: innovative thinking, creative, creative thinking, Innovation, critical thinking definition, …
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