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·2 days ago

Why Your Reasons To Innovate Are Not Good Enough

About Serving Vanity and Solving Real Problems — I place my toes right at the edge of the mezzanine grid feeling the unnerving thrill of staring into the gorge over one hundred meters below. I feel the wind, a bit more angry than caressing, wanting to push me around, and I take a deep breath to steady myself. …

Innovation

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Why Your Reasons To Innovate Are Not Good Enough
Why Your Reasons To Innovate Are Not Good Enough

Published in Loud Updates

·Jun 20

Dare More Tortoise Than Hare

When “Pulling Out All The Stops” Becomes A Toxic Leadership Mantra — Has your team recently been “Pulling Out All The Stops”? Congratulations! Pulling out all the stops can be an incredibly energizing experience if you rally your team around an important client or project and pull it off well. Originating from organ music, where pulling out a knob leads to more…

Leadership

4 min read

Dare More Tortoise Than Hare
Dare More Tortoise Than Hare

Published in data-driven fiction

·Jun 10

Not Seeing The Wood For The Trees?

Try This Innovation Technique — “We have become blinded by the pound, the euro and the dollar, when really all we need is water, air, plants, shelter and nature. Simplicity is key to happiness.” — Ben Fogle But have you noticed how the majority of our proposed solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges tends…

Creativity

4 min read

Not Seeing The Wood For The Trees?
Not Seeing The Wood For The Trees?

May 23

Speed Bumps On The Road To Innovation

Part 1: Stalling your idea development? — Ed Catmull describes a phenomenon in Creativity, Inc which poses a challenge for many growing organisations today: “The Hungry Beast and The Ugly Baby”. The Beast represents the growing complexity and the corresponding pressure an organisation feels to deliver output — after all, salaries for highly qualified employees need to…

Innovation

4 min read

This Is Holding Back Your Innovation
This Is Holding Back Your Innovation

May 13

Great points!
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Kyle Bernier

Thank you Kyle! You're absolutely right, especially with all the distractions around us.

Thank you Kyle! You're absolutely right, especially with all the distractions around us. I see you have written a lot about creativity yourself, I am glad you still found some helpful hints. Stay creative! Ulrike

1 min read

Thank you Kyle! You're absolutely right, especially with all the distractions around us.

I see you have written a lot about creativity yourself, I am glad you still found some helpful hints.

Stay creative!

Ulrike

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May 12

What Your Creativity Needs

3 Simple Approaches To Give You A Boost — “Everyone knows that when you get bitten by a werwolf, you become a werewolf yourself. But what if the werewolf bites a goldfish? Does it become a Were-fish? And what is the wolf mindlessly nibbles on a leg of a chair? Chair-wolf?” That is how Neil Gaiman describes creativity as…

Creativity

3 min read

What Your Creativity Needs
What Your Creativity Needs

Dec 16, 2021

Leave It Better Than You Found It

3 Simple Steps To Making Decisions Without Overthinking — “Just imagine… healthier oceans… less waste… trees returning…” Sir Attenborough did a set of inspiring short videos for the WWF just over a year ago. They promised a brighter future and lots of opportunities — if we acted. A year has gone by and I wonder, what remains? What has…

Leadership

3 min read

Leave It Better Than You Found It
Leave It Better Than You Found It

Dec 7, 2021

My Top 5 Books Of 2021

2021 was a year of change in perspective. — We thought that after a long and strenuous 2020 the Covid pandemic would be over. It wasn’t. We celebrated new flexibility in work models only to be called back to our offices, only to be sent home again during the third and fourth waves. We also thought that we would…

Leadership

5 min read

My Top 5 Books Of 2021
My Top 5 Books Of 2021

Dec 1, 2021

Demons Don’t Like It When You Get Up

What is holding you back? — The man, who seemed to float rather than walk down the street, seemed to have come from a different time. His hat resembled the one that Abraham Lincoln is always seen with in photographs, long, black, and pipe-like, with a flat brim. His coattails flapped around his legs like tired…

Leadership

4 min read

Demons Don’t Like It When You Get Up
Demons Don’t Like It When You Get Up

Nov 24, 2021

How creativity and imagination can inspire action for the future

The benefits of making ‘That’s not possible’ possible — As I am writing this, the little blue dragon sitting next to me puffs a smoke ring out of his left nostril in disapproval. “O shut your snout”, I think in his direction, “I have work to do.” Unperturbed, he hops onto my keyboard and starts a stare-down contest with…

Creativity

3 min read

How creativity and imagination can inspire action for the future
How creativity and imagination can inspire action for the future
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