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 … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Hugh Simpson
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 secretarial service and even a … Continue reading →
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 for each person using START, STOP and CONTINUE. … Continue reading →
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 different groups where 50 participants did … Continue reading →
Wisdom from the Late Steve Jobs
Here is what the late Steve Jobs shared with BusinessWeek: “Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient. “But innovation comes from people meeting up in … Continue reading →
ABC Sentences
Here you need to get a group together for the most FUN! The first person will BEGIN a sentence with the letter A and end it with a word that begins with B. The second person will begin their sentence … Continue reading →
Shipping
This is the term the VERY creative and productive Seth Godin uses when he is releasing one of his many products – a new book, a new business or one of his many blog posts. Seth says that by SHIPPING … Continue reading →
Meetings Are A Waste of Time!
I agree with Scott Belsky, author of Making Ideas Happen (Resources area), that the majority of MEETINGS are a waste of time! Here are ways that he suggest making meetings PRODUCTIVE. 1. Don’t just meet because that is what you … Continue reading →
Disney’s Three Rooms
Yes, Walt Disney, my Creative hero, had THREE rooms literally at Disney Studios. Room 1 was for what you might know as BRAINSTORMING and I like to call “HeartStorming” as they have discovered that our heart has its own brain. … Continue reading →
More Making Ideas Happen
Continuing with Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky share another very important concept he calls “The Energy Line” where you start on the left side of the spectrum with PROJECTS (remember for Scott EVERYTHING is a PROJECT!) labeled Extreme followed by … Continue reading →