Rising Above the Sea of Information
A friend of mine who knows how pathological I am about time sent me this quote, which I’ve since learnt is also Segal’s Law. “A man with a watch knows[…]
Posts under Problem Solving focus on an overall category of understanding as much as possible about the problem, usually by articulating, understanding, framing and repositioning issues.
A friend of mine who knows how pathological I am about time sent me this quote, which I’ve since learnt is also Segal’s Law. “A man with a watch knows[…]
When someone asks you to be strategic, what do they want you to do, exactly? When someone asks you to be creative, what does that mean, specifically?
Addressing the problem means finding tactics which either remove or control the issue itself. A brilliant exercise to do that is Stop It or Mop It.
Creativity = problem solving. So if you don’t know what the problem is, you have a bigger problem than not being able to generate ideas.
The popular book series Two-Minute Mysteries were my childhood introduction to one of creativity’s most powerful exercises: lateral thinking puzzles.
In his book Creative Thinking in the Decision and Management Sciences, James R. Evans points out that “intellectual playfulness” (that is, to have an extremely open mind) is one of[…]