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Do you search for ideas with a spotlight or a lantern?
To an adult it’s a cardboard box for packing books. But to a child it’s a car, a giant’s hat, a king’s table… As we get older and gain more experience as adults, this experience affects how we look at...
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How an escalator can inspire ideas
You know what it’s like, you’ve been working on an idea or challenge for ages and you’ve reached the point where your mind is bogged down and you’re not moving forward anymore. This is the point when...
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The first follower
Is leadership overglorified? This is the question raised by this short and very entertaining TED Talk from Derek Sivers: First Follower This video prompts the thought that perhaps alongside thinking...
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Meaningful images
I’m currently reading ‘The back of the napkin’ by Dan Roam, about solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. Roam says that visual thinking is all about making “…the complex understandable by...
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Managing the unknown through questioning
The title of this post comes from the International Foundation for Action Learning , as this week I had my first taste of Action Learning. This is all about groups (or ‘sets’) working together on real...
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Introverts and ideas
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas” – this quote from Susan Cain in her recent TED talk stuck in my mind. So much of the way we do things at work is...
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Seek first to understand…
My dad has always said: “You have two ears and one mouth for a reason” – a simple but effective way of reminding me how important it is to listen (as does this picture by David Shrigley!). This is...
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It was the best of teams and the worst of teams…
“What was the best team you’ve been on?” I struggled to answer this when it was asked on a recent team coaching course I was on. Then, when I heard others’ answers, I felt as thought I had missed out...
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The power of empathy
“What would Madonna do?” – an example of a type of question you might ask if you’re stuck with an idea and need to look at it from a different perspective. Obviously you can substitute Madonna for a...
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Are you following unnecessary rules?
There are many conventions and rules which govern our lives and which we mostly don’t question or think about. Most of these rules are there to protect us and maintain a civilised society. But did you...
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