Tag: problems

At some point in every person’s career, selling an idea or recommendation to a key decision maker leads to a rejection. And my, there are many reasons why people reject

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had a recipe to make an idea? A recipe is valuable to a cook when preparing a meal. Its preciseness and instructions help prevent

Understanding and articulating the problem (“a less than ideal state” says Gene Agre in The Concept of a Problem (1982) is the most crucial step in creative thinking. But, it’s

Change Your Perspective is Post #1 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here. The Problem: Starting

As I was running a workshop on ‘How to Create Ideas’ in London a few months ago, I saw a group discussion on LinkedIn where the author was curious if

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

Every class I teach, whether it’s about any topic of business or generally about creativity, comes down to one word: the problem. In short, understand the problem, create an idea

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