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Latest Creativity And Innovation Blog Posts

How To Become More Unreasonable

No, this is not a manual to enable you to annoy your colleagues and friends. If you have not read ...

Creating An Innovation Centre of Excellence

So you want to create an Innovation Centre of Excellence? Let us first check that we are speaking about the ...

SMART goals are rubbish but massive goals are better

You may hear a lot of talk about SMART goals and then see lots of discussions (and possibly argument) afterward ...

3 Innovation Tips To Ensure Failure

3 innovation tips to ensure failure? No, not really. As you might have guessed, I do not really want to ...

The Order Of Chaos – Dealing With Complexity

Chaos, disorder, entropy – it always seems to increase. To try and make sense of this fact, organisations put in ...

Do you have a social space at your place of work?

How many people have a 'real' social space at their place of work? By this I mean a space where ...

Creativity On A Budget – Get Yourself A Cheap Whiteboard!

This article came about as part of a project to create some ideas around 'Creativity On A Budget'. I thought ...

Innovation – Do You Have Your Head In The Sand?

Do you have your head in the sand regarding your Innovation efforts? Could you be caught in the dreaded cycle ...

What do Creative Thinking and Moccassins have in common?

I recently spent ten days in Nepal taking two Negotiation Skills workshops. As you would expect, I managed to weave ...

What is ‘The Difference That Makes The Difference’?

People often ask HOW do I find this mystical difference but they do not actually ask WHAT the difference actually ...

The Fastest Coffin In Mexico City

The picture reminds me of some good times had in Mexico City and a couple of key lessons regarding competition ...

Can The Public Sector Leopard Change Its Spots?

I went to an event very recently where a number of public sector and not for profit organisations were shouting ...