Three business basics to always remember! People don't care about your brand. They care about what you can do for them. Back to basics... Give people what they want, do it consistently and do it better than your competition.
Productivity Facts Every Employee Should KnowRobert Half
These productivity tips from Accountemps can empower you to take control of your time. Find out why your small business should save your most important tasks for Tuesdays.
11 Scary Statistics About Stress At WorkOfficevibe
Stress is a silent killer. There’s plenty of research on the subject that shows that too much stress can have traumatizing health effects.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/infographic-stress-at-work
Learn more about Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace:
https://www.officevibe.com/
Tips from Calvin and Hobbes on how to be a good customerFreshdesk Inc.
What could a careless, mischievous six year old possibly teach you about being a good customer? Well, not much really, but he can surely tell you a lot about what you should NOT do.
Here are a few things you can learn from Calvin about being a good customer.
For more tips on customer support, head over to the Freshdesk blog - http://blog.freshdesk.com/
9 Ways to Be More Productive - Backed by ScienceD B
Everyone wants to be more productive. Officevibe created a presentation to help explain science-based ways to be more productive. All of them are simple to do and free.
You can read the entire article on our blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-at-work-infographic
Download our free resources about engagement and happiness:
https://www.officevibe.com/resources
Follow us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/officevibe
Share your thoughts on Twitter !
https://twitter.com/Officevibe
Inside this guide, you'll learn an insiders tips and techniques to getting into the marketing industry - no job applications necessary.
You'll learn what marketing really is, why you'll find a job easily, what entry level marketing jobs look like and four actionable things you can try right now to help get you into the marketing industry.
Visit Inbound.org and the Inbound.org/jobs community jobs board to find opportunities and connect with professional marketers from all over.
WTF - Why the Future Is Up to Us - pptx versionTim O'Reilly
This is the talk I gave January 12, 2017 at the G20/OECD Conference on the Digital Future in Berlin. I talk about fitness landscapes as applied to technology and business, the role of unchecked financialization in the state of our politics and economy, and why technology really wants to create jobs, not destroy them. (There is a separate PDF version, but some readers said the notes were too fuzzy to read.)
Three business basics to always remember! People don't care about your brand. They care about what you can do for them. Back to basics... Give people what they want, do it consistently and do it better than your competition.
Productivity Facts Every Employee Should KnowRobert Half
These productivity tips from Accountemps can empower you to take control of your time. Find out why your small business should save your most important tasks for Tuesdays.
11 Scary Statistics About Stress At WorkOfficevibe
Stress is a silent killer. There’s plenty of research on the subject that shows that too much stress can have traumatizing health effects.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/infographic-stress-at-work
Learn more about Officevibe, the simplest tool for a greater workplace:
https://www.officevibe.com/
Tips from Calvin and Hobbes on how to be a good customerFreshdesk Inc.
What could a careless, mischievous six year old possibly teach you about being a good customer? Well, not much really, but he can surely tell you a lot about what you should NOT do.
Here are a few things you can learn from Calvin about being a good customer.
For more tips on customer support, head over to the Freshdesk blog - http://blog.freshdesk.com/
9 Ways to Be More Productive - Backed by ScienceD B
Everyone wants to be more productive. Officevibe created a presentation to help explain science-based ways to be more productive. All of them are simple to do and free.
You can read the entire article on our blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-at-work-infographic
Download our free resources about engagement and happiness:
https://www.officevibe.com/resources
Follow us on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/officevibe
Share your thoughts on Twitter !
https://twitter.com/Officevibe
Inside this guide, you'll learn an insiders tips and techniques to getting into the marketing industry - no job applications necessary.
You'll learn what marketing really is, why you'll find a job easily, what entry level marketing jobs look like and four actionable things you can try right now to help get you into the marketing industry.
Visit Inbound.org and the Inbound.org/jobs community jobs board to find opportunities and connect with professional marketers from all over.
WTF - Why the Future Is Up to Us - pptx versionTim O'Reilly
This is the talk I gave January 12, 2017 at the G20/OECD Conference on the Digital Future in Berlin. I talk about fitness landscapes as applied to technology and business, the role of unchecked financialization in the state of our politics and economy, and why technology really wants to create jobs, not destroy them. (There is a separate PDF version, but some readers said the notes were too fuzzy to read.)
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
10 Things your Audience Hates About your PresentationStinson
See it with animations! https://vimeo.com/179236019
It’s impossible to win over an audience with a bad presentation. You might have the next big thing, but if your presentation falls flat, then so will your idea. While every audience is different, there are some universal cringe-worthy presentation mistakes that are all too common. Whether you’re an amateur or a seasoned presenter, you should always avoid this list of top 10 things your audience hates. Are you committing any of these 10 fatal presentation sins?
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
The What If Technique presented by Motivate DesignMotivate Design
Why "What If"...?
The What If Technique tackles the challenge of engaging a creative, disruptive mindset when it comes to design thinking and crafting innovative user experiences.
Thinking disruptively is a disruptive thing to do, which means it's a very hard thing to do, especially when you add in risk-averse business leaders and company cultures, who hold on tight to psychological blocks, corporate lore, and excuse personas that stifle creativity and possibilities (see www.motivatedesign.com/what-if for more details).
The What If Technique offers key steps, tools and examples to help you achieve incremental changes that promote disruptive thinking, overcome barriers to creativity, and lead to big, innovative differences for business leaders, companies, and ultimately user experiences and products.
Let's find out what's what together! Explore your "What Ifs" with us. See www.motivatedesign.com/what-if for details about the What If Technique, studio workshops, the book, case studies and more downloads--including a the sample chapter "Corporate Lore and Blocks to Creativity"
Connect with us @Motivate_Design
This short PowerPoint presentation shows five great ways to get the attention of your audience during your speech or sales pitch.
Try them out in your next speech and you will see how you can engage your audience with these simple tips.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
https://masterclass.etiennegarbugli.com
This presentation was voted Most Liked presentation of the year by SlideShare. In December 2013, 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20 was included in the Slideshare Zeitgeist.
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
What are the unique traits that separate high-performers from low-performers? Find out and build your own High-Performance Team that is highly focused on goals and achieve superior business results.
As a leader, you spend a lot of your time making sure that your team is working well together. Here are the secrets that every manager should know to make your team successful.
Subscribe to our free 11-day email course on HOW TO BE A BETTER LEADER:
http://officevi.be/29Sx4bK
Read more on employee engagement on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog
10 Practical Ways to Be More Efficient at WorkWeekdone.com
Efficiency has always been an ongoing process that you will keep fine tuning for the rest of your life. However, when it comes down to being efficient at work, there are whole industries coming up with solutions. We at Weekdone gathered the 10 best ways to be more efficient at work that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make you more efficient at work.
Here at Table19, we believe that great work is only possible when clients and their agencies work together as a team. This is a presentation written by our Executive Creative Director Graham Wall, who on his first day in this industry heard the senior team he was shadowing say something he couldn’t understand: that the client had bought the wrong idea.
This set in motion a desire to understand how and why this had happened, and make sure it never happened again. This presentation details Graham’s learnings and philosophies, and shows how agencies and clients can create better work together.
The Uncomfortable Truth of Why Teams FailNeil Patel
What would you do if someone took credit for all your work, would you confront him or her risking a confrontation or not say anything at all, which would build up resentment?
It’s a surprising fact the reason why most new businesses fail is not because of product/market fit, finances or using the wrong technology, it’s because the team members do not get on with each other.
14 Tips to Entrepreneurs to start the Right StuffPatrick Stähler
14 tips for Entrepreneurs how they can develop from an idea the Right Thing. The Right is being loved by your customers, gives meaning to you and employees and is profitable. Finding and later doing the Right Thing is an agile and iterative learning journey. With these 14 tips you can profit from the experience of successful entrepreneurs since you do not have to experience and fail by yourself. Hopefully, the slide deck helps other entrepreneurs.
People love the notion of the sole innovator, but this notion is wrong. Successful companies are usually started, and become successful, with the contributions of at least two people. Yin and yang, maker and seller, dreamer and pragmatist — call it what you will. After the fact, people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.
Derek Sivers, the co-founder of CD Baby, said it best: “The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.”
In some instances the first follower is the first customer, but most often the first follower is the second employee of a company — that is, the co-founder.
There are few factors that can make a company more successful, fun, and epic than an awesome co-founder. There are few factors that can make a company more unsuccessful, aggravating, and pathetic than an incompetent, lazy, or dishonest co-founder.
This SlideShare explains the art of the picking a co-founder and is part of the LinkedIn Influencer series for #mystartupstory.
Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrmllvr/
Inspired Storytelling: Engaging People & Moving Them To ActionKelsey Ruger
Most projects, presentations or initiatives are driven by facts and features the team believes will help them deliver a product or message. While facts and data are important for setting the stage and communicating goals, they’re rarely what persuades an audience or gets them to take action.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use that connection, by teaching basic skills in visual thinking and storytelling that will that transform projects and initiate action.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/how-to-build-the-perfect-team-nancy-butler/ - Having the right people in place is essential to accomplishing your goals and building your business. Follow these tips from Nancy Butler, business coach and award-winning author of Above All Else, to assemble the perfect high-performing team.
Visual and Creative Thinking:What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy WonkaKelsey Ruger
Presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.
Things That Don't Matter in Your Presentation!Ayman Sadiq
We often spend hours together on stuffs that don’t really matter in your next presentation. You need to unclutter, focus, provide insight and yes, tell a story to convey the big idea. When you stop wasting time on the things that don’t really add any value to you presentation, we finally start adding proper value to the message and objective of your presentation. So here goes a list of things on which you should not even spend a minute. Cheers!
The Myth of Innovation - Strategies for Corporate SurvivalBenny Corvers
Mature organizations, confronted with their lack of innovative capabilities, readily turn to standard recipes. In an effort to create a quick fix, they blindly follow the core myths about innovation.
Creating a sustainable stratgegy for survival requires an integral approach though, one that looks beyond technological innovation and includes the systemic dimensions of the oranization's social fabric.
There is a staggering amount of books on innovation, explaining what it’s all about.
In this presentation we give you exactly the opposite: 10 misconceptions on innovation.
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
10 Things your Audience Hates About your PresentationStinson
See it with animations! https://vimeo.com/179236019
It’s impossible to win over an audience with a bad presentation. You might have the next big thing, but if your presentation falls flat, then so will your idea. While every audience is different, there are some universal cringe-worthy presentation mistakes that are all too common. Whether you’re an amateur or a seasoned presenter, you should always avoid this list of top 10 things your audience hates. Are you committing any of these 10 fatal presentation sins?
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
The What If Technique presented by Motivate DesignMotivate Design
Why "What If"...?
The What If Technique tackles the challenge of engaging a creative, disruptive mindset when it comes to design thinking and crafting innovative user experiences.
Thinking disruptively is a disruptive thing to do, which means it's a very hard thing to do, especially when you add in risk-averse business leaders and company cultures, who hold on tight to psychological blocks, corporate lore, and excuse personas that stifle creativity and possibilities (see www.motivatedesign.com/what-if for more details).
The What If Technique offers key steps, tools and examples to help you achieve incremental changes that promote disruptive thinking, overcome barriers to creativity, and lead to big, innovative differences for business leaders, companies, and ultimately user experiences and products.
Let's find out what's what together! Explore your "What Ifs" with us. See www.motivatedesign.com/what-if for details about the What If Technique, studio workshops, the book, case studies and more downloads--including a the sample chapter "Corporate Lore and Blocks to Creativity"
Connect with us @Motivate_Design
This short PowerPoint presentation shows five great ways to get the attention of your audience during your speech or sales pitch.
Try them out in your next speech and you will see how you can engage your audience with these simple tips.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
https://masterclass.etiennegarbugli.com
This presentation was voted Most Liked presentation of the year by SlideShare. In December 2013, 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20 was included in the Slideshare Zeitgeist.
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
What are the unique traits that separate high-performers from low-performers? Find out and build your own High-Performance Team that is highly focused on goals and achieve superior business results.
As a leader, you spend a lot of your time making sure that your team is working well together. Here are the secrets that every manager should know to make your team successful.
Subscribe to our free 11-day email course on HOW TO BE A BETTER LEADER:
http://officevi.be/29Sx4bK
Read more on employee engagement on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog
10 Practical Ways to Be More Efficient at WorkWeekdone.com
Efficiency has always been an ongoing process that you will keep fine tuning for the rest of your life. However, when it comes down to being efficient at work, there are whole industries coming up with solutions. We at Weekdone gathered the 10 best ways to be more efficient at work that we believe to be simple, practical and proven to make you more efficient at work.
Here at Table19, we believe that great work is only possible when clients and their agencies work together as a team. This is a presentation written by our Executive Creative Director Graham Wall, who on his first day in this industry heard the senior team he was shadowing say something he couldn’t understand: that the client had bought the wrong idea.
This set in motion a desire to understand how and why this had happened, and make sure it never happened again. This presentation details Graham’s learnings and philosophies, and shows how agencies and clients can create better work together.
The Uncomfortable Truth of Why Teams FailNeil Patel
What would you do if someone took credit for all your work, would you confront him or her risking a confrontation or not say anything at all, which would build up resentment?
It’s a surprising fact the reason why most new businesses fail is not because of product/market fit, finances or using the wrong technology, it’s because the team members do not get on with each other.
14 Tips to Entrepreneurs to start the Right StuffPatrick Stähler
14 tips for Entrepreneurs how they can develop from an idea the Right Thing. The Right is being loved by your customers, gives meaning to you and employees and is profitable. Finding and later doing the Right Thing is an agile and iterative learning journey. With these 14 tips you can profit from the experience of successful entrepreneurs since you do not have to experience and fail by yourself. Hopefully, the slide deck helps other entrepreneurs.
People love the notion of the sole innovator, but this notion is wrong. Successful companies are usually started, and become successful, with the contributions of at least two people. Yin and yang, maker and seller, dreamer and pragmatist — call it what you will. After the fact, people may recognize one founder as the innovator, but it takes a team to make a new venture work.
Derek Sivers, the co-founder of CD Baby, said it best: “The first follower is what transforms the lone nut into a leader.”
In some instances the first follower is the first customer, but most often the first follower is the second employee of a company — that is, the co-founder.
There are few factors that can make a company more successful, fun, and epic than an awesome co-founder. There are few factors that can make a company more unsuccessful, aggravating, and pathetic than an incompetent, lazy, or dishonest co-founder.
This SlideShare explains the art of the picking a co-founder and is part of the LinkedIn Influencer series for #mystartupstory.
Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrmllvr/
Inspired Storytelling: Engaging People & Moving Them To ActionKelsey Ruger
Most projects, presentations or initiatives are driven by facts and features the team believes will help them deliver a product or message. While facts and data are important for setting the stage and communicating goals, they’re rarely what persuades an audience or gets them to take action.
In this workshop, you will learn how to use that connection, by teaching basic skills in visual thinking and storytelling that will that transform projects and initiate action.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
https://www.wrike.com/blog/how-to-build-the-perfect-team-nancy-butler/ - Having the right people in place is essential to accomplishing your goals and building your business. Follow these tips from Nancy Butler, business coach and award-winning author of Above All Else, to assemble the perfect high-performing team.
Visual and Creative Thinking:What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy WonkaKelsey Ruger
Presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.
Things That Don't Matter in Your Presentation!Ayman Sadiq
We often spend hours together on stuffs that don’t really matter in your next presentation. You need to unclutter, focus, provide insight and yes, tell a story to convey the big idea. When you stop wasting time on the things that don’t really add any value to you presentation, we finally start adding proper value to the message and objective of your presentation. So here goes a list of things on which you should not even spend a minute. Cheers!
The Myth of Innovation - Strategies for Corporate SurvivalBenny Corvers
Mature organizations, confronted with their lack of innovative capabilities, readily turn to standard recipes. In an effort to create a quick fix, they blindly follow the core myths about innovation.
Creating a sustainable stratgegy for survival requires an integral approach though, one that looks beyond technological innovation and includes the systemic dimensions of the oranization's social fabric.
There is a staggering amount of books on innovation, explaining what it’s all about.
In this presentation we give you exactly the opposite: 10 misconceptions on innovation.
To increase the efficiency of your innovation process the way to go is to implement the concept of open innovation
We present the two most important open innovation principles.
Slides from #BrightonSEO Sept 2015 and #Mozinar October 2015
Practical thinking skills and brainstorming techniques that will drastically improve your idea generation for content.
Get the free ebook here: http://www.content101.com/ebooks/how-to-have-ideas/
Jason Theodor's Creative Method and SystemsJason Theodor
[Download PDF version at JasonTheodor.com]
What are the core elements of Creativity and how can they be applied? Jason Theodor crams 5 years of (ongoing) research and thinking into this presentation given first at FITC Toronto. A richer audio version will appear in a few weeks.
Unleash your Creative Adventure by Stepping into the Discomfort Zone!Harish
What do you think is one of the most important indicators of great progress on any journey?
Have you experienced getting into a new creative venture and remember being really excited for a little while?
And then you hit against a wall? Things were going well and you felt comfortable but you had this nagging feeling that you were not making much progress.
You may have an ideal of your creative dreams and passions being effortless and painless. And you may seek being comfortable because it reinforces those ideas of effortlessness.
Let at look at some ways we get stuck in our comfort zone and how to step into the discomfort zone where the real growth happens.
I have always been interested in idea generation and the ability to provoke creativity. After a while I become so passionate I decided to gather all my thoughts in this short presentation, which I hope will intrigue you.
I tried very hard to give as much as possible insights by adding the speaker notes, but you will agree with me that experiencing the presentation given by the extremely excited presenter will make a big difference.
Please, do not hesitate to share your thoughts with me after you see the whole presentation.
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the biggest global award show in brand communications and an annual gathering of creative industry professionals. Landor is excited to have had the opportunity to share its insights at Cannes with some of the world’s top creative minds.
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2. “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these
apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have
an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then
each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
4. What is the process of
consistently getting
ideas that matter and
knowing which ones to
implement?
5. !
“Maybe [artistry] doesn’t have to be quite so
full of anguish if you never happened to
believe, in the first place, that the most
extraordinary aspects of your being came from
you. But maybe if you just believed that they
were on loan to you from some unimaginable
source for some exquisite portion of your life to
be passed along when you’re finished … it
starts to change everything.” — Elizabeth
Gilbert, TED talk
1. WHEN YOU RECEIVE AN IDEA,
CHASE IT DOWN IMMEDIATELY
AND WRITE IT DOWN
6. THE QUESTION: DO YOU HAVE A
STRUCTURE OR A SYSTEM TO
COLLECT, WRITE DOWN, ACCESS
AND IMPLEMENT YOUR IDEAS?
7. ACTION TIPS:
Is it possible to collect the idea?
Is there something nearby to write it down?
Are you able to find it quickly when you need it?
Can you implement some of the ideas in a timely
manner?
DO NOT JUST BE A COLLECTOR
OF IDEAS. BE SURE TO ACTUALLY
DO SOMETHING WITH THEM!!
8. “Most ideas are born
and lost in isolation.”
― Scott Belsky,
Author of Making
Ideas Happen
9. !
“The Anthropologist brings new learning
and insights into the organization by
observing human behavior and developing
a deep understanding of how people
interact physically and emotionally with
products, services, and spaces.”- The Ten
Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley and
Jonathan Littman
2. GET IN THE HABIT OF
OBSERVATION AND EMBRACE
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST PERSONA
10. AFTER WATCHING IDEO’S “THE DEEP DIVE” ON
ABC’S NIGHTLINE…
POLISH EMPLOYEES OF A SOFT DRINK FIRM USED IDEO’S
TECHNIQUE OF LEARNING FROM ACTUAL CUSTOMERS BY
OBSERVING THEM IN THE FIELD.
11. PEOPLE WERE LOOKING AT THE DRINKS KIOSK, THEIR CLOCK
AND GLANCING OVER TO SEE IF THE TRAIN WAS COMING
MINUTES BEFORE THEIR ARRIVAL….
THE IDEA!! THEY CREATED DRINK KIOSKS WITH HUGE
CLOCKS ON THEM THAT FACILITATED THE SIMULTANEOUS
OBSERVATION OF THE TIME AND THE REFRESHMENTS.
12. “We’ve been advocating field
observations and quick prototyping for
a long time. Sometimes a breakthrough is
one small insight away. A simple telling
observation—like the train passengers
glancing from their watches to the soda
kiosks—can make all the difference.
Make patient observation and quick
prototyping part of your recipe for
innovation. You might be surprised by
the results.”- The Ten Faces of
Innovation by Tom Kelley and Jonathan
Littman
14. BIRD WATCHING AND IDENTIFICATION IS A GREAT
WAY TO IMPROVE OBSERVATION SKILLS…
ACTION TIP: INCREASE YOUR SKILLS OF
OBSERVATION BY PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO
THE WORLD AROUND YOU.
15. 3. ARE YOU ASKING THE
RELEVANT QUESTIONS?!
“If I had an hour to solve a problem
and my life depended on the solution, I
would spend the first 55 minutes
determining the proper question to
ask… for once I know the proper
question, I could solve the problem in
less than five minutes.”-Albert Einstein
17. ACTION TIPS:!
ASK RELEVANT QUESTIONS:
WHY IS IT SO?
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
HOW CAN I SOLVE THIS?
WHERE DOES IT HAPPEN?
WHEN? DOES IT HAPPEN?
18. 4. SHOULD YOU GO
THROUGH WITH AN IDEA?
WEIGHING ENTHUSIASM
AND PASSION VS. FEAR
OF CRITICISM AND FAILURE
“A great idea should always be left to
steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a
while to make sure that the tea will be
strong enough and that the idea truly is a
great one.”― Phoebe Stone
19. IS THERE AN IDEA THAT KEEPS
COMING BACK TO YOU IN
DIFFERENT FORMS AND
MESSAGES?
PURSUE
IT!
20. ACTION TIP:
IMPACT IDEA THAT
YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO FOLLOW BUT WERE
AFRAID OF CRITICISM OR FAILURE. FOLLOW
IT ANYWAYS.
WHAT IS THE SINGLE MOST HIGH
21. “No army can withstand the strength of an
idea whose time has come.”― Victor Hugo
22. 5. TAKE A WALK IN
NATURE TO RELAX AND
GENERATE THAT NEXT
IDEA!
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” ―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
24. The real act of discovery consists not in finding new
lands, but in seeing with new eyes. —Marcel Proust
6. CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND
LOOK AT A PROBLEM WITH A
DIFFERENT FILTER AND WITH NEW
EYES
26. CHANGE THE FILTER AND THE LENS THAT
YOU LOOK AT THE PROBLEM WITH.
ZOOM IN AND ZOOM OUT FROM THE PROBLEM
27. IN THE BOOK, 10 FACES OF INNOVATION BY TOM KELLEY AND
JONATHAN LITTMAN OF IDEO, MANY DIFFERENT PERSONAS
OR LENSES THAT YOU CAN USE HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED.
28. USE TRIAL AND ERROR AND
EXPERIMENT TO GENERATE
NEW IDEAS.
THE EXPERIMENTER PERSONA:
30. THE CROSS POLLINATOR PERSONA:
!
!
!
EXPLORE OTHER INDUSTRIES,
CULTURES AND PRACTICES AND
USE THE REVELATIONS FOR
GENERATING IDEAS.
31. BRING DIFFERENT GROUPS
THAT WOULD NOT USUALLY
MEET AND GENERATE
SOLUTIONS AND
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
IDEAS.
THE COLLABORATOR PERSONA
32. COLLECT AND NARRATE
COMPELLING NARRATIVES
FROM REAL LIFE SITUATIONS
AND PEOPLE TO BECOME
AWARE OF UNIQUE
PERSPECTIVES AND DEVELOP
NEW IDEAS.
THE STORYTELLER PERSONA:
33. WHAT IDEAS CAN YOU
GENERATE IF YOU LOOKED
FROM THE EYES OF
SOMEONE ELSE?
34. 7. DO NOT DISMISS YOUR
INSANE IDEA AS
IMPOSSIBLE
“For an idea that does not first
seem insane, there is no
hope.”― Albert Einstein
35. DID THE WORLD NEED YET ANOTHER
MP3 PLAYER?
SEEMS LIKE IT DID!
36. SAY YES TO A GREAT IDEA
INSTEAD OF RATIONALIZING WHY
IT WILL NOT WORK.
!
“I can’t understand why
people are frightened of new
ideas. I’m frightened of the
old ones.”― John Cage
37. 8. MEET AND HANGOUT WITH
PEOPLE WHO ARE OUTSIDE
YOUR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
!
“Chance favors the connected
mind.”― Steven Johnson, Where
Good Ideas Come From: The Natural
History of Innovation
38. IN HIS TED TALK, STEVEN JOHNSON DESCRIBES THAT COFFEE
SHOPS OR CAFES WERE GREAT IDEA GENERATION MACHINES
HISTORICALLY AND LEAD TO THE PERIOD KNOWN AS THE
ENLIGHTENMENT.
39. TO GET NEW IDEAS, GO OUT…
AND MINGLE WITH PEOPLE AND
PERSPECTIVES THAT ARE QUITE
DIFFERENT FROM YOURS…
40. 9. DO SOMETHING THAT YOU
HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE
TO GET NEW IDEAS
!
“If you want something new, you
have to stop doing something
old”― Peter F. Drucker
42. 10. PROCESSES FOR
IDEA GENERATION
“Good ideas may not want to be free, but they
do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want
to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual
borders. They want to complete each other as
much as they want to compete”― Steven
Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The
Natural History of Innovation
43. MIX AND MATCH UP
NEW BUT SIMILAR IDEAS
!
!
CONNECT AND
COMBINE UNRELATED
IDEAS
46. READ MAGAZINES AND BOOKS AT
THE LOCAL LIBRARY
!
LISTEN TO AND FOLLOW THOUGHT
LEADERS IN YOUR FIELD ON
SOCIAL MEDIA
!
SUBSCRIBE TO THOUGHT
PROVOKING BLOGS, PODCASTS
AND WEBSITES
FOR MORE IDEAS…
47. 11. QUESTION YOUR
ASSUMPTIONS TO GENERATE
AND SUSTAIN NEW IDEAS
!
!
“Your assumptions are your windows
on the world. Scrub them off every
once in a while, or the light won’t
come in.”― Isaac Asimov
48. QUESTION ALL YOUR ASSUMPTIONS:!
!
!
!
!
!
I SHOULD HAVE…
!
I COULD HAVE…
49. QUESTION ALL YOUR ASSUMPTIONS:
IF ONLY I WAS…
I DON’T HAVE THE TIME..
IDEAS ARE CHEAP…
I DON’T HAVE THE
MONEY…
I AM VERY BUSY…
50. !
“At the heart of science is an
essential tension between two
seemingly contradictory attitudes–
an openness to new ideas, no
matter how bizarre or counterintuitive
they may be, and the most ruthless
skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old
and new.”― Carl Sagan
53. CHILDREN ARE ENDLESSLY CURIOUS
AND LOOK AT THE WORLD FROM A
SENSE OF WONDER AND
AMAZEMENT.
CHILDREN ARE UNAFRAID OF LOOKING SILLY AND ALLOW
IMAGINATIVE IDEAS TO TAKE HOLD OF THEM.
54. THE INNOVATION FIRM, IDEO
IS KNOWN TO HAVE CARTS
WITH MATERIALS OF ALL
SORT SO THAT TEAM
MEMBERS CAN PROTOTYPE
AND GET NEW IDEAS VERY
QUICKLY FROM MATERIALS
AVAILABLE FROM THEM.
55. IN STANFORD CREATIVITY
RESEARCHER, TINA SEELIG’S
CLASS, THERE ARE
MANIPULATIVES LIKE A
PRESCHOOL SO THAT THE
STUDENTS CAN EXPLORE THEIR
CREATIVITY UNHINDERED.
57. 13. HAVING A LOT OF DOWN TIME TO
INCUBATE THOSE IDEAS…SLEEP, REST,
RELAXATION AND MEDITATION
“When I am ….. completely myself, entirely
alone… or during the night when I
cannot sleep, it is on such occasions
that my ideas flow best and most
abundantly. Whence and how these
ideas come I know not nor can I force
them.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
58. “SLEEP ON IT” = “INCUBATION” PHASE OF
CREATIVITY =
WHERE IDEAS COLLIDE IN YOUR MIND TO BLOSSOM
INTO SOMETHING NOVEL.
59. FRIEDRICH AUGUST KEKULÉ IS
FAMOUSLY KNOWN TO HAVE
DISCOVERED THE RING
STRUCTURE OF BENZENE IN A
DREAM WHERE HE SAW A SNAKE
SEIZING ITS OWN TAIL.
HOWEVER, THIS WAS ONLY
POSSIBLE AFTER HE STUDIED THE
NATURE OF CARBON BONDS FOR
YEARS.
60. THE TUNE TO “YESTERDAY” CAME TO PAUL MCCARTNEY
IN A DREAM.
According to him:
!
“I woke up with a lovely tune in my head. I
thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’
There was an upright piano next to me, to the
right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed,
sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor
7th – and that leads you through then to B to
E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads
forward logically. I liked the melody a lot, but
because I’d dreamed it, I couldn’t believe I’d
written it. I thought, ’No, I’ve never written
anything like this before.’ But I had the tune,
which was the most magic thing!”
62. 14. COMING UP WITH MORE
IDEAS IS BETTER…INCLUDING THE
SEEMINGLY BAD ONES
“Quantity over quality. It is more important
to come up with a bunch of stuff so that
some of it has a chance of being great. I
would even go so far to say that going
for great ideas is not a great idea
because it paralyzes you. It frustrates
you.” – Matthew Diffee, TEDxRedding
Talk, How to get a great idea
63. MAKE A LIST OF IDEAS.
THEN COME UP WITH A SECONDARY LIST.
THEN TRY TO COME UP WITH SOME
MORE IDEAS.
YOU MAY COME UP WITH
REALLY BAD ONES BUT
KEEP GOING…
.
64. “Your greatest ideas will be accidents. You
can good ones with work but you can’t get
the great ones. The question is: Is that good
news or bad news. I think it is both. The bad
news is that you can’t make a great idea
happen by working harder. The good news
is that you can’t make a great idea happen
by working harder. So just relax. Make your
pot of coffee. Sit down. Put in your time. Do
your work. Go for quantity over quality. And
every now and then, a great idea will hit you
right smack dab on the back of your head.”
– Matthew Diffee, TEDxRedding Talk
65. “The best way to have a
good idea is to have a lot of
ideas.” – Linus Pauling,
Nobel Prize winner
67. SET UP YOUR WORKSPACE TO
REFLECT YOUR PERSONAL
DESIGN SENSIBILITIES.
!
YOUR WORK AREA = NATURAL
TRANSITION INTO THE CREATIVE,
IDEA GENERATION MOOD.
68. COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE CAREFULLY AND CREATIVELY
DESIGN THEIR WORKSPACES TO MAXIMIZE IDEA
FORMATION AND THE CROSS-POLLINATION OF ECLECTIC
IDEAS.
69. PAY ATTENTION TO TONE,
MOOD, MUSIC, COLOR,
SIGHTS, PICTURES,
OBJECTS AND TOOLS THAT
FACILITATE IDEA
GENERATION.
EXPERIMENT WITH
DIFFERENT MODALITIES OF
LEARNING, PROCESSING
AND IDEA GENERATION
SUCH AS SIGHT, SOUND
AND TOUCH.
70. BONUS TIP: MAKE A BUG LIST
!
WHAT BUGS YOU?
!
HOW CAN YOU FIX IT?
!
HOW CAN YOU DO SOMETHING
DIFFERENTLY?
!
71. SUMMARY
1. WHEN YOU RECEIVE AN IDEA, CHASE IT AND WRITE IT DOWN
2. GET IN THE HABIT OF OBSERVATION AND EMBRACE THE
ANTHROPOLOGIST PERSONA.
3. ARE YOU ASKING THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS?
4. SHOULD YOU GO THROUGH WITH AN IDEA? WEIGHING ENTHUSIASM
AND PASSION VS. FEAR OF CRITICISM AND FAILURE
5. TAKE A WALK IN NATURE TO RELAX AND GENERATE THAT NEXT IDEA
6. CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND LOOK AT A PROBLEM WITH A
DIFFERENT FILTER AND WITH NEW EYES
7. DO NOT DISMISS YOUR INSANE IDEA AS IMPOSSIBLE
8. MEET AND HANGOUT WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE OUTSIDE
YOUR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
9. DO SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE TO GET NEW IDEAS
10. PROCESSES FOR IDEA GENERATION: MIX AND MATCH, CONNECT AND
COMBINE, ADD, SUBTRACT, MIND MAP, READ, SOCIAL MEDIA
11. QUESTION YOUR ASSUMPTIONS TO GENERATE AND SUSTAIN NEW IDEAS
12. BECOME CURIOUS AND IMAGINATIVE LIKE A CHILD..DO NOT BE AFRAID TO
LOOK SILLY
13. HAVE A LOT OF DOWN TIME TO INCUBATE THOSE IDEAS…SLEEP, REST,
RELAXATION AND MEDITATION
14. COMING UP WITH MORE IDEAS IS BETTER…INCLUDING THE SEEMINGLY BAD
ONES
15. MAKE YOUR ENVIRONMENT SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE CHANCE OF IDEA
FORMATION
BONUS TIP: MAKE A BUG LIST
!
!
!
!
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