Haiku and the Decision Making Process
We’ve grown comfortable with automatic decisions and snap judgments. Making quick decisions is so much a part of our culture that we need a tool to help slow down our minds so we can actually think.
Finding Fertile Soil
Have you ever thought about great ideas that never happened because their seeds fell on dry ground and turned to dust before taking root? How many incredible ideas are just floating around in the ideasphere waiting for the perfect conditions to exist?
I had the pleasure recently of attending a lecture by
Dr. Walter Powell, “Woody” as […]
The Downside of Balance
Your team has a greater likelihood of achieving its goals if everyone on the team concentrates -- not on maintaining a balance, but rather -- on playing their own part to the best of their ability.
Give your ideas time to ripen on the vine
Because things are so automated these days, it is too easy for us to pound thoughts into our keyboards, without really thinking about them. And, just like hot-house tomatoes, our end-product suffers for lack of time to ripen.