Category: Creativity

It’s going to happen, if you haven’t experienced it already: an unsuccessful brainstorm that didn’t generate one single usable idea. This topic came up yesterday when I was talking with

I might walk out the front door without my house keys, but I never leave home without a pad of paper and a pen. It’s also my first answer if

Here’s something a tad embarrassing. I was born on the same day as legendary inventor Thomas Edison (well, 115 year later). Ever since I realised who we was and what he

Without agreement on specific creative criteria, the repetitive ailment of creative churn sets in. Once for a New York client, we presented our best strategic plan for a networking opportunity.

Being creative at work often means using the people around you to stimulate discussion and creativity. But what happens when you need to be creative and there’s no one else

So much of creativity – if not business overall – is understanding the problem enough to be able to eliminate it. And if not get rid of it, then either

Fun problem solving stories are all over history. One of my favourites concerns a poor peasant named Gordias who decided to sell simple wares from his ox cart in the

Jump to Model and Questions All successful communications initiatives start with strategic communications planning.  The question is which planning system to use? Happily, there are as many different planning processes

In a previous post, I wrote about the well-known nine-dot puzzle which inspired the phrase ‘thinking outside the box’ and its variations. A brain-teaser from the late 18th century, the