This page contains the latest ReThinking, Reinvention, Innovation, and Creativity related blog articles written by me, Derek Cheshire. To view the archive page where you can find all of my posts in reverse chronological order, please visit this page or if you want to search through all of the posts on a single page then visit this page.

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Diversity of experience

Diversity of Experience – a game changer

I talk a lot about using people from different disciplines to get things done. Some get it, many don't and ...
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Latest Creativity And Innovation Blog Posts

The Mobius strip and knowledge sharing

A huge thank you to Dr Mobius. For those not familiar with this strip it is technically a 1 dimensional ...
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How Long Does Innovation Take?

Recently I attempted to answer the question 'how much?' and now 'how long?'. These are probably the two most frequent ...
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Does Innovation Cost A Lot?

How much is a lot? A million dollars may be a lot to some and small change to others. If ...
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Hackathons Do Not Grow Radishes

Hackathons! I bet you have noticed posts about them or maybe even been to a few. They can be fun, ...
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Do You Use Bad Language At Work?

No, I am not referring to swearing or uttering profanities. Do you use language at work that is not appropriate ...
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The Innovation Without Tears Manifesto

Why Do I do It? Many visitors to this blog will have encountered Simon Sinek. He is famous for the phrase ‘Start ...
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innovation secret

The Secret To Innovation

The secret to innovation is .... that there is no secret! There are a few things to consider but these ...
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Recycling single use plastic save the planet

The Plastic Bottle Problem

If you live in the UK you will be more than aware of the COP26 conference but did you watch ...
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Systems Thinking And Saving The Planet

Looking at the post title you might be forgiven for thinking that I have gone mad. Please bear with me ...
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Reinvention, the first step

Regular visitors will have been used to me talking about ReThinking which is my umbrella term that covers both Reinvention ...
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Is Innovation Failure Good?

Here I put the case that Innovation Failure is not good. Innovators should all be failing as fast as they ...
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