Thinking about Thinking, Creativity, Innovation and Design
Some of us start thinking about something just out of the blue. Thinking is similar to walking out of the door for a Sunday morning walk, without a plan or a destination. We are happy with what comes along, and sometimes we call it an insight or a conclusion. In my experience, thinking could be …
Thinking about Value The importance of value is the theme in the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The narrator observes that grown-ups like numbers. Grown-ups think that they know a person after then have asked questions related to a new friend’s age and how much money his parent’s make. The little prince …
Learn to Spot and Create To create opportunities, you need imagination and skills to abstract or generate ideas from concepts. These skills can be taught and one approach relies on making lists of everything and anything that could be improved in the world. Another approach is to avoid using the word “problem.“ The only …
Why should you avoid selecting the “best” idea? Below is an extract from Jeffrey Baumgartner’s Report 103, which he has kindly given us permission to reprint. Jeffrey’s website is filled with inspiring articles about how to be creative and make your business more innovative. In the article below, he writes about ways to select a solution and …
The idea that you can be taught to be creative by using techniques of deliberate creativity is a recent phenomenon. The first approaches originating between fifty and seventy years ago. There are roughly three approaches to deliberate creativity: Brainstorming Lateral Thinking TRIZ Innovation – the implementing of ideas that have value – is a younger …
Find the Truth Someone once asked me “How can we increase people’s willingness to accept criticism and enhance their ability to find the truth?” Personally, I do not believe that human nature can be changed. For example, the idea that another banking crisis can be prevented by people calling for less greed, does not make …
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