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Overcoming The Mid-project Blues and a new creativity exercise

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney
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Segment 1: Overcoming the Mid-Project Blues

  • Project go through three phases
  • How do you overcome?
    • Remind yourself why you started the project (e.g. go back to you notebooks and re-live the start)
    • Take break … go on vacation
    • Come up with new ideas for the project (e.g. develop the plans for after launch)

Segment 2: Listener Question

"I’m a creative person.  How do I get a job that is a better fit?"

Segment 3: Creativity Exercise

  • - Paper or something else to write on (e.g. index cards)
  • - Pen or pencil
  • - A stop watch or egg timer
  • - imagine you were just given a pen made of clear plastic
  • - There is one issue – it has no ink.
  • - In one minute, how many ideas can you come up with?
The most I’ve seen is about a dozen or so ….. all in one minute.
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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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