Archive for June, 2009

21 Rules of Thumb For Innovation Team Building

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I wrote this list, with the assistance of Kim Greene, for the 2009 CPSI Team Building participants. They had made the request for a bit of "real world" content (imagine!). 1. A strong bold initiative and vision inspires teams. It has the right people wanting to be involved. 2. If you are ...

Shut Up and Start a Revolution

Friday, June 19th, 2009

I often get the remark, after a speech or something, that "I can't innovate at my company because..." -- And then you get a lot of different endings to that starter, some printable, some  not.  Mostly folks say they can't because their organization doesn't want innovation, or isn't structured to ...

A Prince Among Creative Thinkers: George Prince, Developer of Synectics

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

The creativity and innovation field is a rather smallish group of people. It feels like a community, I know most of my competitors, and, I wish them all the success in the world. There are a few folks that have achieved nearly cult status within our community because of their unique ...

Uncreative Problem Solving: London Tube Strike

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Briefly noted, a comment on the un-creativity on display related to the London Tube Strike. How uncreative can you get? I blame both the government AND the union. There was ample time to work this out. To quote Marlon Brando in the Godfather "how did it ever get this far?" Just ...

Grasshopper: Inspiring Entrepreneurs, Creating E-People

Monday, June 8th, 2009

When did Entrepreneur become a bad word? We should all be bending over backwards to help Entrepreneurs in these troubled times.  Watch this video! and get a fresh perspective on what it means to be an Entrepreneur. Send the video link  to every young person you can think of -- today!  Let's ...