It’s True! Brainstorming Groups Kill Creative Ideas
For as long as I can remember I’ve hated getting into huddles, with others, to brainstorm and come up with creative ideas for whatever the project was that I was working on. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the people I didn’t like, and it’s...
Henry Ford can teach us about Customer Experience in a Digital Age
Henry Ford is well known for saying, “You can have any car you like, as long as it’s black”. I’ve asked hundreds of audiences why they think he said this, and had answers that range from, ‘he had a fetish for black’, to ‘it was the cheapest colour’, to ‘there wasn’t...
Sometimes Creative Quantity is better than Creative Quality
Have you ever had one of those moments where you’re creating something (painting, music, writing a letter, designing a website, coming up with a new idea, looking for a new sales angle) and you freeze half way through because you’ve transported yourself...
The Data is Clear. We’re Becoming Less Creative
Before I get into anything, the data is American. So it may just be confined to that part of the world, although I’m not going to bet any money on that. Ever since the 1950’s, children have undergone annual creativity tests, in the same way they’ve...
Reversing Assumptions | A Useful Creativity Technique
This past week, Nug, our clever little Bot who teaches Creativity online, presented a neat Creativity Technique – Reversing Assumptions. It’s a great tool to use when you get stuck trying to find a way around, over or through an obstacle. Our brains are...
How Embracing Your Constraints Can Improve Your Creativity
I wrote last week about how putting limitations and constraints in place has the ability to enhance your creativity. But what about if you have limitations and constraints in place naturally? Built into you? Things that make you a little or a lot different from the...
Limits and Restrictions, Green Ham and Improving your Creativity
After 18 months of testing, learning, tweaking and improving, we launched Nug, our Creativity Bot, last week. You can find Nug here if you’re interested. Nug is a Chat Bot using Facebook Messenger’s platform for now. Nug was built to help people improve...
Yes / No Thinking and the Challenge of Sneaking up on Soft Rocks
Yes / No Thinking is a lazy approach to parenting, implemented in your early childhood to save valuable items from being destroyed, and from time to time, ensuring you stayed a live. EXAMPLE 1 If you place a 2 year old next to a freshly painted white wall and hand...
Improving Your Creativity. There Are No Short Cuts or Silver Bullets
Creativity is an essential 21st-century skill. If you’re not certain of that at this moment, the more extreme view is that it won’t be long before you realise, after you’ve been replaced, that it’s one the few differentials you have against the rise of AI and Robots....
