High Performance & Innovation Coach
“Businesspeople don’t need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.” — Roger Martin, Dean of Rotman School of Management You can use the Double Diamond to help you explore the problem and solution space for a given challenge or opportunity. The Double Diamond is a design process model popularized by the British Design …
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” — Confucius You hear people say it all the time – “I don’t care what you call it… call it whatever you want… I just care that…. Blah, blah, blah.” Sure, they don’t care what to call it, or what you call it. …
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” — Albert Einstein Brainwriting is where a group of participants write down as many ideas as possible. It’s like brainstorming, except participants don’t have to talk to each other. You just write your ideas down on a brainwriting grid. With …
“A problem properly stated is half solved.” – John Dewey How do you reframe a problem so you can solve it better? You can do so by turning your toughest challenges into creative questions. If you want creative solutions, you need to ask creative questions. You can brainstorm solutions, but first you need to brainstorm …
“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis Don’t just grow up. Grow better. Creativity is one of the most powerful skills in the world that you could possible develop. Like Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Creativity is the backbone of innovation. And …
