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Creative Thinking and a Day of Creative Self-Talk

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That conversation, and a related one on creative thinking and what is funny got me reflecting on a day in my life and the creative thinking and creative self-talk that goes on behind the scenes. As I started to jot down ideas from the day, it read like a bunch of creative thinking policies and non-policies.

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Creative Thinking – We All Have Our “Pizza Meeting” Weak Spots

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What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. Yup, that’s a dirty little secret of creative thinking. What are my pizza meetings?

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10 Questions to Identify Innovative Thinking in Salespeople

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Several people asked recently about questions to help identify innovative thinkers in sales. While we have done a bunch of strategic and creative thinking skills workshops for sales teams in the past several years , we have never put together a specific diagnostic on this topic. Employing Innovative Processes.

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6 Things about Your Innovation Strategy Employees Need to Know

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It’s time to launch an innovation strategy for your organization. So, it’s time to announce an innovation program, because that will undoubtedly fill the growth gap facing your brand. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy.

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Creative Thinking Exercise – Rethinking Shrimp

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Sometimes you think you know best, only to find later that you have absolutely NO clue. As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company.