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
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: 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
Speed Read to a More Productive and Happier You by Henry Toi, Brain Capital Group, Singapore Increased reading speed is perhaps the most easily attainable improvement in personal skills. However few are aware of their need to increase their reading speed.
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
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
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
An introductory paper on the state of play of innovation in the Queensland and Australian Public Service. White_Paper_Public Service_Innovation
Title : How’s Your Climate for Innovation? Author: Charles W. Prather, Ph.D. Bio: Dr. Prather was a research management chemist at DuPont before managing DuPont’s Center for Creativity and Innovation. Through CW Prather Associates, in Annapolis, Maryland, he now consults on
(For Online Academy Students) The attached article by Dr Rowan Gilmore, CEO of the Australian Institute for Commercialisation raises some interesting points about the focus on innovation in Australia. Taking the lead from the Business Council of Australia's report on innovation
