Tag: favourite books and videos

So much of presentation skills focuses on the messages and its delivery (rightly so), but it’s never a bad idea to remind ourselves of the easy-to-make errors in body language

At a recent meeting, a senior leader used strategic or creative in ways that I instantly knew he did not know the difference between the two words. Later, when I was alone with our

After attending my creativity workshop, a woman sent an e-mail asking whether linear thinking was bad. I understand why she’d think so. A quick Google search on linear thinking – or its

The Message House Explanation Download It’s one of the oldest rules in communications, simply known as The Rule of 3s. In 1956, psychologist George Miller at Princeton University concluded from

One book that keeps finding its way to the top of my shelves is How To Make Meetings Work, by Michael Doyle and David Straus. One of the most useful

This post on the ways to ruin a brainstorm comes from Paul Sloane, author of The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. They say brainstorms are old-fashioned and no longer

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

Like a good party, it’s important to create the right brainstorm atmosphere. It’s more than just the room itself. In his book , James R. Evans points out that “intellectual

So much creativity – if not business overall – is undestanding the problem enough to be able to eliminate it (and if not get rid of it, then either to

Outside of generating ideas, a surprising number of people – often senior executives – have admitted to me over the years they didn’t see a value in creativity beyond brainstorming.