Tag: creativity
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Importance of Innovation
#Innovation is the ONLY way to change your current situation, direction or hope to get new results. It can seem scary when you don’t have ample resources of time, money, friends, or whatever. It might not “work”. Meaning it might not bring the results you intend. But trying something new will always bring new results and #feedback.…
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4 Simple Statements
I recognize the #humanity in you.You are valued and valuable. Your ideas, opinions, and experiences are valid and help shape others.I am excited to #collaborate with you. Imagine what we could accomplish if we started our meetings with these 4 sentences! It would be difficult, uncomfortable, and a challenge to make such a commitment on the front end. It…
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Dream with others
12 April 2018 One of the most powerful ways to appreciate another person is to #dream with them. This encompasses deep #listening, honoring their delicate #creativity, acknowledging their #skills as well as challenges, respecting their premature ideas, and #encouraging them to be themselves. Most of us don’t get that often enough and keep our #genius…
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Embracing Non-Sense
Businesses are too dependent on our 5 physical senses (which are inherently flawed). To grow and succeed; businesses need to build a culture that embraces nonsense! What do I mean by our senses being inherently flawed? Our senses of taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound are all constantly ‘on’ – sensing things and relaying that…
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Theory of Abundance
We all want more abundant lives, businesses, and careers. We seem to think of this word only as a good thing, but I have discovered that abundance applies to everything – the good, the bad, and the mediocre. Without getting too metaphysical or philosophical; I’d like to share my thoughts on how each of us…
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A Difficult Decision
Creativity is inspiring. It encourages people to think, present ideas with the hopes of moving the business forward; employees are more engaged; customers can easily tell the difference and are likely to talk positively with their friends. But creativity, by its nature, is messy, emotional, difficult to manage, and nearly impossible to predict – it…
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An Upward Spiral
By their very nature; innovation and creativity are not very predictable or consistent; they do not scale well; and there is virtually no way to calculate an ROI. While many innovative or creative ideas are VERY scalable; the process of creating something new takes huge investments of time, materials, passion, training, mess, and support. On the other hand, by…
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Awesomeness
Most see awesomeness in its finished form – a 5 layer decadent chocolate cake with molten core and a hand-made icing – but they don’t recognize its simple, almost everyday, commodity ingredients of flour, sugar, eggs, cocoa, etc. The magic of awesome rarely comes from the ingredients. Instead, it comes from the human elements of…
David R Frick 