An astonishment report can identify things that are surprisingly good, surprisingly bad or just odd about your company.
Why Are Children So Much More Creative Than Adults?
How does that creativity get crushed? What other great ideas do children have that are ignored?
How does that creativity get crushed? What other great ideas do children have that are ignored?
Be Unpredictable – Surprise Your Customers and Competitors
If you are dealing with consumers it can occasionally pay to break the rules.
If you are dealing with consumers it can occasionally pay to break the rules.
How to Write Your Ideal Elevator Pitch
How would you describe to a stranger what your organization does?
How would you describe to a stranger what your organization does?
A Hostile Reaction to Genius Is Not Unusual – It Is the Norm
Negative reactions to new creative ideas are normal.
Negative reactions to new creative ideas are normal.
How Can We Teach Entrepreneurship?
How can we enthuse and empower a whole new generation of entrepreneurs?
How can we enthuse and empower a whole new generation of entrepreneurs?
Show the Destination but Let Your People Choose the Route
How can you encourage the creativity to make innovation happen?
How can you encourage the creativity to make innovation happen?
In Praise of Ignorance and Doubt
We value knowledge and certainty and disdain ignorance and doubt.
We value knowledge and certainty and disdain ignorance and doubt.
A Lesson in Innovation Practice from Medicine
For centuries doctors tried different remedies for treating illnesses and diligently observed what happened.
For centuries doctors tried different remedies for treating illnesses and diligently observed what happened.
Two Important Things That Lead to Innovation are Pain and Slack
If you want innovation then think about these two words – pain and slack. They can lead you to innovation success.
If you want innovation then think about these two words – pain and slack. They can lead you to innovation success.
How to Be Lucky
Here are four main traits that lucky people have that help them to be ‘lucky’.
Here are four main traits that lucky people have that help them to be ‘lucky’.
Ways to Innovate Your Product or Service: Add, Subtract, Innovate
If you are looking for product or process innovations then try some mathematical operators – add, subtract and differentiate.
If you are looking for product or process innovations then try some mathematical operators – add, subtract and differentiate.
Marketing Lessons from David and Goliath
If your opponent is bigger than you and stronger than you then do not take him on directly – you have to outflank him.
If your opponent is bigger than you and stronger than you then do not take him on directly – you have to outflank him.
How to Use Six Serving Men as a Problem Analysis Method
Six Serving Men is a team exercise that examines an issue from twelve different viewpoints.
Six Serving Men is a team exercise that examines an issue from twelve different viewpoints.
10 Great Trips for Trainers
Whatever the subject of your workshop or training course there are some simple steps you can take to make it better for the participants and better for you. Here are a few of them.
Whatever the subject of your workshop or training course there are some simple steps you can take to make it better for the participants and better for you. Here are a few of them.
Disasters Can Open the Door for Innovation
In January 1992 a container with 29,000 plastic bath toys was washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean.
In January 1992 a container with 29,000 plastic bath toys was washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean.