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I write to disrupt your thinking. In these blog posts I try and challenge, stretch and inspire new ideas & conversations.
How Leaders can enhance their Creative Thinking
Switch your perspective We all look at situations differently. This is because your perspective is informed by your thinking patterns. Your patterns are influenced by your experiences, values, attitudes and beliefs. This is why for example you tend to see only the...
The Future of Creative Thinking
Here are my 6 Blue-Sky Predictions 1. Creative Thinking will become a core subject taught from primary school upwards Creative Thinking will become an essential life skill like reading, maths or chairing a meeting for example. It will be used throughout your life to...
The Daily Creative Thinking Meeting
Daily meetings can be productive and creative More and more groups and teams are using daily meetings. These are very popular in software development teams in particular and even have their own name - Daily Scrums. Daily Scrums as the name implies are short, daily...
Do leaders need a creative thinking consultant?
For a new age we need a new type of consultant There are many different types of consultants. Think of management consultants or strategy or marketing or political consultants for example. Yet none of these are dedicated to helping leaders and their teams to create....
How to be productively creative
The new challenge for all leaders, groups and teams It's a tough time for anyone who works in an organisation or runs their own business. Leaders, groups and teams need to be more creative and innovative to develop new growth opportunities and design better consumer...
Let’s think about creativity in a new way
Here is a new way to think about creativity. By using a different metaphor. Creativity as a switch. Using this perspective you and your group or team could switch on your creativity and then switch it off - in an instant. Depending on the situation you could switch on...
What is a Team Problem Solving Culture?
Culture plus process equals breakthrough solutions There are numerous articles, posts and content around team problem solving processes. Basically these involve a number of steps: 1. Defining the problem 2. Generating alternative solutions 3. Evaluating these and 4....
Why leaders need to become multi-thinkers
Shifting leadership thinking from single to multi In 1983, Harvard Professor Howard Gardner, in a book called Frames of Mind proposed a Theory of Multiple Intelligences rather than a single, general one. I am suggesting we extend his theory by having a Theory of...
The 70/20/10 Leadership Thinking Formula
The Leadership Thinking success formula In the Marketing and Innovation space there is a 70, 20, 10 formula: - 70% of your innovation efforts should be on your current business, products and markets - 20% on adjacent or near-by markets or related products (e.g. think...