Awhile back I wrote my prediction that your next big network would be small — limited to your favorite and most meaningful five connections. I’ve received feedback from others and had conversations at conferences on the subject, and many people agree. I’ve also noticed several other indicators online since then (I should be keeping better […]
About five years ago I discovered SlideShare and decided to upload a couple of my older slide presentations along with a version of my book “100-Whats of Creativity“. Every so often SlideShare sends me an email with a running count of views they’ve received and at one point the SlideShare version of my book earned […]
I am a very big fan of scribbling ideas and jotting notes and scrawling diagrams on napkins. Putting the tip of a rollerball pen to a napkin just seems to foster my creative spirit. The napkin is an informal method of sharing an idea or making plans. It usually means you’re in a casual location […]
I was wandering around some shops at the mall with my fiance this past weekend and ran across the items on the shelf pictured below in a store called Sur la table. How many ideas can you generate from this image? My brain immediately went to a lesson in punctuation that could completely change the […]
It used to be that you’d have to wait for the Super Bowl to see Super Bowl ads, now they are released weeks before the actual game. There are websites and on-demand channels dedicated to collecting them and rating them, as well as television news programs and print publications dedicated to covering them as if […]
Wracking your brain for an idea can be mentally draining (literally!) and physically exhausting (stress and tension can be a real pain in the neck… and back.) Stimuli collected from reading and other research can relieve some of the brain drain, but research can also be tiring (though I find it a bit energizing, too) […]
Do you learn more by studying your strengths or by studying your weaknesses? Taking stock of your strengths allows you to build on what you are already good at. To achieve greater heights on a ladder you are adept at climbing. It allows you to specialize in an area of expertise and become a world-class […]