Best Time To Innovate and Proactive Ways To Find Ideas

Phil McKinney

3 Jul 2006

Dateline: Atlanta, GA

Segment 1: Best Time To Innovate

Use a log to track and find your most creative hours
If you are a Morning Person – 6:00AM to 8:00AM
Of you are a Night Owl – 10:00AM to noon

Segment 2: Proactive Ways To Find Ideas

Have regular sessions
Use the dates as a driver for idea generation
Each person presents under some constraint (time, # of slides, etc.)
Clear understanding of the follow-up

Segment 3: Killer Question Of The Week

Segment 4: Closing Thoughts

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

Ray Bradbury

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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.