Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 22, 2017

Perhaps this will be a golden age - where increasingly we are removed from the drudgery of manual labor and repetitive jobs and are finally freed up to explore the unlimited creativity that we possess but have never been able to fully harness. This is because machines aren't artistic or creative - yet. What needs to change?

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Idea to Value

JULY 23, 2021

Or, you could try something new this season to spark your creativity. Science has shown that trying new things makes you more creative. So, what can you do outdoors this summer to spark that creativity and find inspiration? Record Your Experiences. Commit to hitting the “pause” button sometimes and recording your experience.

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ExactHire - Innovation

APRIL 23, 2021

How can you write a job description packed with that much power? When thinking about how to write a job description, there are two things to keep in mind. If you’re learning how to write your own job description, start by crafting a job description that clearly identifies the role. Job Description Writing Guide.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Every now and then, we’ll run a post that recaps Facebook and Twitter updates, blog post scraps, and other random creative thinking, all smushed together, Larry King-style. Traveling Deep in the Heart of Texas. Having someone channeling an early Sandra Bernhardt attitude in a creative session is not advantageous. “Danger.

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Michael Roberto

DECEMBER 4, 2017

IDEO's Tom and Dave Kelley wrote a wonderful book together a few years ago titled, "Creative Confidence." In the book, they offer tons of ideas on how to spark creativity in your organization, based mostly on their work developing design thinking as a process and set of tools for creating breakthrough innovations.

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Michael Michalko

DECEMBER 12, 2021

KNOWING HOW TO SEE. When confronted with a problem, they ask “How many different ways can I look at it?” Leonardo da Vinci believed that to gain knowledge about the form of problems, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. Da Vinci called this process “knowing how to see.”

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

If one particular thinking strategy stands out about creative genius, it is the ability to make juxtapositions that elude mere mortals. I first learned of this “connecting the unconnected” thinking process from Leonardo Da Vinci who wrote how he connected the unconnected to get his creative inspiration in his notebooks.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. A growing body of research shows that organizations that have adopted this innovative approach based on customer-centricity, creative problem-solving and experimentation, are significantly outperforming their competitors. Find out more.

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Idea to Value

MAY 6, 2016

But it teaches an important lesson about staying creative. This is vital for enabling your brain to form new associations between disparate ideas (one of the true roots of creativity). Now usually the sort of conferences I go to are in the field of creativity or innovation because that is what my primary business is.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 17, 2024

Encouraging Innovation : They can encourage teams to innovate by collaborating on creative solutions to complex challenges. Innovation Encouraging creative thinking and problem-solving as a group. Collaboration Fostering a collaborative mindset among team members. Morale Boosting team spirit and motivation to achieve common goals.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2020

How can you keep the engagement, how can you find an environment that is creative, stimulating and allows for innovation? Who is encouraging your pause button to go on as we lose more of those relaxing moments to top up our stimulations, by increasingly our lack of socializing, travelling, being in each others company?

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

There are, for example, remarkable similarities between the mysteries of how our creative mind works and what quantum physicists have observed in their studies of the universe. This may be the same mental process that creates the “Aha” experience or divine inspiration that creative thinkers report. The Mind is Like the Universe.

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Innovators Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Smart companies however, respond to leaner budgets by deploying non-traditional methods that are both cheaper and tend to engage customers in creative new ways. Companies like these keep their cost-conscious creative market juices flowing regardless of the economic climate.

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Be-novative

APRIL 15, 2021

Taking in everyone’s insights from our global expert network of the Be-novative Partner Hub gave us some insights and a deeper understanding of how this works at the moment in the ecosystem Be-novative is thriving in. How to communicate the Purpose of our Business in an authentic way when you are in the middle of a rebranding process?

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Michael Michalko

APRIL 3, 2022

If one particular thinking strategy stands out about creative genius, it is the ability to make juxtapositions that elude mere mortals. I first learned of this “connecting the unconnected” thinking process from Leonardo Da Vinci who wrote how he connected the unconnected to get his creative inspiration in his notebooks.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There’s no need to travel or schedule virtual meetings in different time zones. It leads to employee empowerment, which makes for a happier, more productive, more creative, and more useful staff. Solutions to problems are discovered more quickly. A Role Model for Internal Crowdsourcing.

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CMOE

JULY 14, 2020

The Team Alignment process is used to rebuild teams, spark creativity, and solve business issues—and it can be delivered in a blended, live-virtual format. The post How to Rebuild a Team During a Crisis [A CMOE Case Study] appeared first on CMOE.

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Idea Champions

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

What is it that allows some people to get creative breakthroughs while others get only creative breakdowns -- alternately blaming themselves, society, their company, and their increasingly suspect astrological configurations? While nobody can deny that some people seem to be blessed with "creative leanings" (i.e.

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Michael Roberto

JANUARY 2, 2019

Source: Blue Diamond Gallery If you want to encourage creativity, exploration, and learning on your team, you should think carefully about how to introduce and provide novel experiences. As a leader, you can provide new stimulating experiences for your employees through travel, reading, training, or a challenging new assignment.

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In last month’s blog , we shared how consciousness , imagination, and curiosity are the fundamental precursors to creativity, invention, and innovation. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. Curiosity and creativity spur innovation Curiosity is derived from the Latin “cura” which means to care.

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The Human Factor

JANUARY 6, 2021

On one hand, they’ll know each other better and will have more empathy and closeness when dealing with each other and on the other hand, the mind works better with periodic rests, with zero work in mind, creativity soars. Think of rewards, either a paid vacation, traveling, a company car, or even an in-house celebration.

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Qmarkets

JANUARY 16, 2020

By understanding how to manage innovation risk, companies can help strike this fine balance. An avid traveller, Max is dedicated to creating diverse and engaging learning and development content for a wide-range of publications. Of course, fearless innovation doesn’t mean reckless innovation.

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IdeaScale

JUNE 29, 2017

Your people are creative and have potential. Millennials are not getting the level of autonomy, creativity, and meaning they desire. Inviting all your employees to innovate is the easy first step, but figuring out how to train them so they can do it effectively is the real challenge. Possibly great potential. Creating Value.

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Michael Michalko

MAY 14, 2022

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their creative thinking. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. Then each participant displays his or her symbol and explains how or why it represents their view. CREATIVE COLLAGES.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The ability to imagine is an innately human trait, which most of us forget how to access by the time we reach our adulthood and late in our careers. Frank’s book is probably the best resource that i have come across to learn the different kinds of questions and how to ask them. Questions that Lead to Creativity: He shares.

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Michael Michalko

AUGUST 30, 2017

This time, the cards have printed on them the legends, respectively, Los Angeles, New York, airplane, and car; and the rule is reframed to read: “Every time I go to Los Angeles, I travel by airplane. While this rule is identical to the number-letter version, it poses little difficulty for individuals.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 4, 2018

How to bring ideas to life? This is the fun part, for most of us, where all the work pays off, and you finally see where your idea is heading and how it might change your business. After collecting, refining and reviewing ideas, now comes the big moment; you’re ready to start implementing those ideas. Getting Ideas Done.

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Rebel & Reason

AUGUST 9, 2019

Rebels recognize that creative problem solving relies on keeping the conversation focused on movement toward a possible solution, unhindered by any potential barriers. The quickest way to talk yourself out of believing in the impossible? Tell yourself all the reasons why it can't be done. 4) Be The Voice Of Dissent.

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Planview

MAY 31, 2023

I’m also creative. It builds the muscle memories of a team to become good at identifying the best ideas to invest time and how to plan and deliver in order to achieve desired outcomes. I also enjoy the creative process of designing and sewing complex quilts. Traveling takes time that I could be doing something more productive.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Following are tips on how to loosen up the group to energize their imagination. Ask participants to draw a personal symbol that metaphorically symbolizes their view about creativity. Then each participant displays his or her symbol and explains how or why it represents their view. CREATIVE COLLAGES. It can be anything…….an

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Idea Champions

OCTOBER 23, 2017

What is it that allows some people to get creative breakthroughs while others get only creative breakdowns -- alternately blaming themselves, society, their company, and their increasingly suspect astrological configurations? While nobody can deny that some people seem to be blessed with "creative leanings" (i.e.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

What You Get Traveling. How did I not build up more immunity than THAT? I need to learn the perks, and figure out how to take advantage of them. First trip of the year, and I started getting a sore throat by the first morning. A scratchy throat makes for a long week. I felt like Bill Belichick. ” Okay, sure.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

MARCH 8, 2024

CY: I enlisted in the Navy six months after high school knowing very little of how to work on a team. it was like drinking from a firehose learning everything from how to wear my uniform, to the chain of command, and how to tell military time. I do take days of personal time off to give webinars and travel to events to speak.

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Jeffrey Phillips

MAY 19, 2021

Over the next few weeks I'll work up a couple of blog posts about what I think the outbreak, our reaction and the aftermath of COVID can tell us about innovation, creativity, new product development and more. It was about the time we got serious about COVID that another thing happened.

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Jeffrey Phillips

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The one that is easiest to travel, has the least amount of risk. As hackneyed as the quote is, Frost is right: "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference". The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." This is the safest, most secure path.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We compensate at the upper end of the industry range, provide performance bonuses, contribute to profit sharing, offer full healthcare for the employee or their family (at the time of hire), frequently host lunches and pick up the tab, and encourage employees to travel comfortably when they have to head out of town to see clients.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2017

Getting out of the office to interact with other leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, educators, artists, or thinkers from around the world enhances creativity and innovation skills. If you’d rather not wait, download the complete chapter of Leading Innovation Ten Essential Roles for Harnessing the Creative Talent of Your Enterprise today.

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