Learn To Value Play

March 18, 2021 ·

Podcast: Learn To Value Play

5 Min, 49 Sec · By Derek Cheshire

As young children we play without thinking about what we are doing. Sticks become spears and swords and cardboard boxes make great castles. These, and other methods of play allow us to experience the real world but in a non-threatening way. Also we engage our imagination without the presence of the artiﬁcial barriers or ﬁlters that adults tend to employ. As adults we call this prototyping but we tend to forget the importance. We must value play more.

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Breaking Mindsets

March 16, 2021 ·

Podcast: Breaking Mindsets

4 Min, 44 Sec · By Derek Cheshire

Breaking mindsets is all about smashing fixed ways of thinking. Most, if not all of us have either a ﬁxed way of doing things or a ﬁxed way of thinking about things. These ﬁxed patterns are known as mindsets and they can severely limit our actions in both business and private life. Imagine that you take the same route each day when you walk to your place of work. Each day you buy the same newspaper and the same sandwich for lunch. Over time you begin to get a little fed up with your choice of sandwich and the newspaper does not seem to engage you as it once did.

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Making Time For Innovation

March 14, 2021 ·

Podcast: Making Time For Innovation

3 Min, 28 Sec · By Derek Cheshire

Often there is no budget for innovation. It can be difficult to make time for innovation or to make it part of everyday life when the bean counters demand that everything is charged to a cost centre. This is the big dilemma, the trade-off between money and the time that we need to ‘steal’.

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Build Up, Don’t Knock Down

March 10, 2021 ·

Podcast: Build Up, Don't Knock Down

3 Min, 45 Sec · By Derek Cheshire

Build up dont knock down. 'Building' techniques are extremely powerful and often very portable. They can have very positive secondary eﬀects. Furthermore, they allow you to take virtually any input – a random piece of news, a misunderstanding or an accidental meeting – and get useful ideas from it.

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Examining Business Boundaries

March 1, 2021 ·

Podcast: Examining Business Boundaries

6 Min, 36 Sec · By Derek Cheshire

Many business owners think of their business in terms of what they do on a daily basis e.g. farmers milk cows, printers print brochures and jewellers make jewellery. A better way of thinking about your business is to ask the question ‘what is it (of value) that I create and who helps me to do this?’ We should be examining business boundaries. Any other person or business that helps you in terms of creating value, and hence money for your pocket, is in fact an extension of your business.

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