Bear with me on this one. It may just make a major difference in your future. Would you like to be a millionaire … several times over? If so, don’t be too quick to judge in the future. You just may pass up an opportunity to achieve stature you never believed possible! I want to ask…
Business Week magazine recently shared a comment made by IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano who said: “The way you will thrive in this environment is by innovating—innovating in technologies, innovating in strategies, innovating in business models.” Innovation is no longer about merely creating new products. It is about reformulating business processes and creating entirely new…
Remember when conventional wisdom suggested that tough times require that we cut back on both training and advertising? Apparently, there’s been a change of heart and wisdom in this area brought about by increasingly unparalleled challenges. While many have, indeed, reduced their training budgets, many others have actually increased training as they realize the true…
In our creativity keynote presentation “Tennis Shoes & Blue Jeans” (Back-to-the-Basics Approach to Creativity and Innovation),we share an interesting anecdote that decisively confirms the point that creative ideas aren’t always original. Each and every person reading this article has been the benefactor of two very creative minds who knew how to borrow, tweak and succeed in…
This is our third installment in a series of articles sharing creative company names and signs. Traveling cross country can provide you with an idea of just how creative people can be as they strive to produce names that will catch the eyes of customers in hopes they’ll pause to investigate, like what they find,…
We sometimes overlook the fact that creative thinking can be used at every level of our existence. In fact, the more often we exercise that important approach to problem solving, the better we become at it. It’s also important to note that anyone and everyone can and should put forth an effort at being more…
I must assume that the majority of our readers are familiar with anagrams. In the rare event that you’ve never heard the official definition, here it is: “A word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.” For example, Elvis to Lives. Anagrams have been around forever and, while I find…
Our local newspaper ran a story yesterday about one of our area McDonald’s outsourcing the drive-through window. Now that takes a minute to digest, doesn’t it? On the other hand, I guess it was inevitable. Let’s see how it works. Apparently, you pull up to your local drive-through window and place your order as usual. Seconds…
A few weeks ago I shared a list of creative company names and signs in an article titled Search for Creativity. Since that time I’ve received several contributions to this on-going list to add to those I’ve continued to discover myself. In our “Get Back in the Box” creativity presentation, we constantly remind attendees to…