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• Lying in a Creative Way

  

  What a paradox – we often lie but we value honesty in others. During a week, we tell many lies. Around 11 untruths per week are told by Americans! Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Fast Lemons and Slow. . .

  

  Barry Smith writes in the book “This Explains Everything” that if you ask people to put lemons on a scale between fast and slow, most of us say “fast”. Why?... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Hacking – Turning an IKEA Chair into a Bicycle

  

  What do you do when you open a parcel and see an instruction? Do you read the instruction before you try to assemble the parts? Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE, LIFE COACH

• Blocking the Left Brain Functions

  

  One of the most fascinating books I ever read was written by  Paul Watzlawick, a family therapist, psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Empathy

  

  A health system designed inspired by empathy!Prioritising and focusing on certain aspects is a vital part in design thinking. Design thinking is a constantly... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Empathy and Design Thinking

  

  A health system designed inspired by empathy!Prioritising and focusing on certain aspects is a vital part in design thinking. Design thinking is a constantly... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Loving the Idea of a Creative Idea, But. . .

  

  Everyone loves the idea with a creative idea. But, there is a big but, this is not the same as embracing an idea. Or testing the idea, or even considering the... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Mulitiple Overlapping Ways – MOW

  

  For centuries, we have valued when someone neatly assign labels to new discoveries. We focus on searching for differences and then we may use a new word to... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Conceptual Thinking

  

  Many people are not very proficient in Conceptual Thinking. Perhaps because it is nowhere taught.Conceptual Thinking is thinking with the aid of concepts. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Insights into Other People’s Worlds – Video Game About Hypersensitivity

  

  Imaging the world, a situation, or a problem from someone else’s point of view is difficult. Yet many us of  imagine that we are rather good at it. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 GAMING, TECH

• Influencing People – “I Think” Or “I Feel”, Which Persuades You the Most?

  

  Everyday people try to persuade us. Politicians, family member, managers and organisations do their best to convince us that their idea, product or solution is... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Provoke Randomness as a Thinking Strategy

  

  According to Michael Michalko Leonardi da Vinci was the first to write about the importance of introducing random and chance events to produce variation in... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Make a Quick Intuitive Decision

  

  Do you regret afterwards when you have made a quick decision? What influences your feelings? The number of choices? The time? Or? Imagine that there is a cloth... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Innovation – Improving Annoying Things

  

  Does the wire from the iPod or iPhone annoy you? Well, you are not alone.Many everyday things are a little bit annoying. Just annoying enough to make us... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• I’ve Still Not Received Your Weekly Three Breakthrough Ideas

  

  From the Manager’s Desk Dear Joanne, today it is Friday, and I have still not received your three breakthrough ideas for this week. Please send me a mail, so... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Patterns in Organizations

  

  I know research laboratories that are organized like assembly lines. They employ a huge number of staff involved in planning, financial control and reporting.... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• One Bright Idea

  

  Richard Turee from Kenya found a simple but  innovative solution that  prevents lions from killing livestock and humans. Richard, whose family lives within the... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Thinking Inside the Box

  

  Thinking inside a box is not easy.  We may get inspiration and improve our thinking if we are sitting or walking outside a box  (go here to read a blog post).... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Innovate the Innovation

  

  Companies and governments must be innovative. But how?Many organizations wait for some curious creative ideas to suddenly appear out of nowhere. The... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH

• Ish Thinking

  

  A video from a meeting at ICOT 2013, where Edward de Bono and John Edwards talks about thinking, lateral thinking, and the importance of focusing your thinking... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH