Want a shorter, faster Meeting? Try Blitzing

Want a shorter, faster Meeting? Try Blitzing

It’s about time we reinvented meetings! I spend a lot of my time talking to and working with managers and leaders. One of my favourite questions is: What is the most unproductive part of your day? Meetings. In what way? There are too many, they are too long ,...
Want to become a Speed Thinker?

Want to become a Speed Thinker?

How to think without over-thinking A few years ago I wrote my third book – entitled Speed Thinking. The tool of which I called Ideas Blitz. Speed Thinking was based on an insight. I noticed that leaders and managers could create amazing ideas in a short space of...
Why design thinking is a good idea

Why design thinking is a good idea

Creative Design Thinking @Speed I have been a recent convert to Design Thinking. Yes I know it has been around for a while but I have been really studying this approach and there are many aspects of this way of solving problems that I really like. Here are some of the...
Should every leader have a thinking coach?

Should every leader have a thinking coach?

Athletes have mental coaches why not leaders? Who would want to be a leader today? They have to build teams and businesses with more and more information, competition, change, customer and shareholder expectations whilst at the same time using less and less resources....
Here’s how to find new ideas

Here’s how to find new ideas

Don’t wait for new ideas to emerge – go and search for them! One of my favourite and most popular aspects of my creative thinking, speed thinking and innovation workshops and courses are the field visits. This is where I ask the group to visit say a...
How to Think Big

How to Think Big

Here are 3 ways to Think Big I just read an ad about a new innovation position with a big company. In the ad which was filled with lots of awesome words, was a description of the person they were looking for: We need someone who can think big … This started me...

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