No Wo/Man Is An Island

When you collaborating on YOUR idea you have to realize that in order to make it HAPPEN you usually must compromise on aspects of it. I assure you that is one of the hardest things that I have had...

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Consensus

When you are collaborating the last thing you want to do is take the easy way out with CONSENSUS! This is a very hard thing to avoid in collaboration but here is one way to avoid it that was shared...

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Cover The Walls!

If you are visual person like myself then what I am about to share with you might be valuable to you too. I am sure that you have been to workshops where they have covered the walls with butcher...

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Collaboration & Creating

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that America is at a serious time in its history. In order for us to be the Creatives we have been in the past we need as many ideas as possible to Move...

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Rules of Circles

Yes, all the great geniuses have used MasterMind groups or "Circles" as Scott of Making Ideas Happen (Resources Area) likes to call them. Edison had people like Ford and Firestone in his MasterMind...

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Sharing the Day

Again works best in a group but can be done with as few or as many as possible. GREAT for workshops at the end of day! Each person shares THREE of the BEST things that have happened to them during...

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Co-Working

I had this idea for abandoned K-Marts years ago. People could rent space and be among others that they could collaborate with or just share what they are working on. There would be a central...

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Cool Technique Used at HP

This cool technique was developed by Steffan Laudauer, vice president of leadership development at HP. 1. Each leader sends an email to each team member and even clients asking for feedback points...

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Creatives Need Heigth

As strange as this statement above may seem it has been backed up by research by Joan Meyers-Levy, a professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota, where she did an experiment with two...

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