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A friend approached me recently with a problem and asked if I could help. "I was in an important meeting recently and in an hour I saw one person destroyed and the company lose a million dollar opportunity. "It
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In recent months we’ve had an increasing number of requests from clients to facilitate strategic thinking sessions for them, most often with the senior leadership team, or to run some of our Critical & Creative Thinking workshops with managers as
Information Overload Never Ending Story Stress
Information Overload: A never ending story of stress? “I’m running a pretty successful business, but the amount of stuff I have to deal with means I work 15 hours a day.” “I’m in the office early and busy all day
Strategic Innovation Innovation Simple Not Easy
Innovation is Simple, but Not Easy! This is a lesson many people are now learning. Having studied continuous improvement, creative thinking and innovation since the early 1980s, having read dozens of books and hundreds of articles and papers on these
Leadership Lessons 24th Century
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Leadership Framework Deliberate Thinking
One of the challenges faced by organisations adopting deliberate thinking to help promote innovation is connecting new thinking techniques to real and important issues in the organisation. People learning new techniques struggle to know when and where to use the
Critical Thinking Decision Making
by Bill Jarrard, Mindwerx International Critical Thinking is defined by the The Critical Thinking Community as that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skilfully taking charge of the
Dr W Edwards Deming 14 Points
In the mid-1980s many organisations in Australia embraced the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM), and while some struggled with it, others made significant inroads to improving product and service quality. Behind this 'movement' were a number of Critical Thinking explorers including
White Paper Innovation Australian Public Service
An introductory paper on the state of play of innovation in the Queensland and Australian Public Service. White_Paper_Public Service_Innovation