Here is a Thursday Thought Experiment built around the question, “Who Needs Innovation Training?” This is about little ideas. Simple little ideas that can add up to big improvements in productivity. Little creative thoughts that flair-up only to be extinguished. When learning a new job, folks typically spend quite a bit of time in the [...]
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Parking Meters
Parking meters are a necessity uptown, since without them shoppers would be crowded out by commuters using the nearby train. But there is a fine line between limiting the time one can park to avoid spaces being tied up all day and making parking so expensive shoppers go somewhere else. This neighborhood shopping center is [...]
Kind-Of-Massage – A Smiley Face For The Fitness Challenged?
Would a kind-of-massage drive customers to use more of your service? I had just finished writing a post on how Emoticon Thinking (simple, cheep ways to motivate consumer behavior) seemed capable of saving the environment when a friend brought up Body Empowered Fitness – a young company in the Chicago area. This is not a story [...]
Procrastination = Creativity | There Is Hope!
“Productive mediocrity requires discipline of an ordinary kind.” Quote from W.A. Pannapacker’s article How To Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci. (UPDATE: subscription now required to get to this article.) Evidently Leonardo never saw a project he couldn’t avoid finishing. But maybe procrastination is the wrong word for his tendency to ‘solve and move on.’ Do [...]
Re: 10 Business Words To Ban
I have tried, but am occasionally still guilty. Check out Silverman’s Ten Business Words To Ban.
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