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Best Time To Innovate and Proactive Ways To Find Ideas

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney

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.

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