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Best Time To Innovate and Proactive Ways To Find Ideas
Download KI_20060703.mp3 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
Roku's Reward
A 2006 film about AR gaming drew 200,000 views. For years, people asked when they could play it. There was no game. Just a vision that landed.
Overcoming Innovation Block and How To Prevent Innovation
Download KI_20060625.mp3 Dateline: Sunnyvale, CA Segment 1: Overcoming Innovation Block * Random word/picture * Sketch/Draw * Scan the Idea Folder * STOP — Let the unconscious take-over * Read/Watch/Do Something Different — Break the “habit” * Look at history Segment 2: How To Prevent Innovation 1. Hire employees looking for safety in
Listening Skill and Rules Of Future Forecasting
Download KI_20060610.mp3 Segment 1: Listening Skills Listening is just, if not more important, than speaking. To re-learn the skill of listening, try these exercises. * Close your eyes and listen to the TV. What do you hear? What do you hear that you normally wouldn’t notice if you
Five F’s Site
If you are regular listner of the podcast, you may recall a point I made in episode #45 (Feb 10th 2006). The topic was around finding a mentor and I talked about the risk of focusing on money. I shared a simple rule I use to help prioritize….. I called it the Five F’s. Faith […]
Observation Skills and Contradictions
Download KI_20060604.mp3 Dateline: Sunnyvale, CA Segment 1: Observations Skills (exercise) * Observe a man and a woman * Document everything they do (touch their hair, holding hands, reaching into their pockets) until you get to 20 items on your list * Look at the list and try to understand who they
Sample of a Gate/Milestone Map
Below is a sample of a gate/milestone map. When creating your own map, keep in mind: Define the “swim lanes” for each function within your organization The gates need to be clear go/no go decision points Each tag on the swim lane is a clear deliverable You may want to color code the tags (green=on [
Personal Branding
I came across a site (Life Beyond Code) that has a very cool book on personal branding for technology professionals. A number of listeners of the podcast have been asking for career advice as they make the shift towards a more ‘creative’ position within their company. To flip the pages, just click
Are you an innovator?
At Forbes.com, Clayton Christensen authored an article that gives his perspective on what an organization needs to be doing to consider themselves as “innovating”. The questions that Clayton posed were: 1. Do I have a balanced portfolio with different types of growth stratagies? 2. Have I allocated
Wedding Pictures ….
A number of you have sent emails congratulating us on the wedding of our daughter. Below are two pictures from the wedding. My oldest daughter, Tara, married Oliver Roehl (pronounced ‘rail). The wedding was a ‘modern’ Scottish wedding with the groom and groomsmen in kilts. Yes – I was in my clan
