When I read this article on Forbes, ‘Pokémon GO’ Has Had The Same Problem For Six Months: No Endgame, I thought about a conversation with a client recently about motivation and employee engagement. He was lamenting about how difficult it is to keep his team motivated at work. Even though his staff was showing up for work everyday and producing …
3 Excuses for Being Un-Creative
Recently, I facilitated a workshop for a group that is very different from my typical groups of professionals and executives…. It was a group of 6-year-old preschoolers. What struck me was the immediate fearlessness when I asked who can build (using LEGO) and tell everyone a story about it and all hands shot up! What followed was an amazing sharing …
“Are the grapes really sour?”: Aesop’s Fables and Corporate Decision Making
Most of us have heard the tale about “The Fox and the Grapes” from Aesop’s Fables. It is the story of a fox that tries to eat grapes hanging from a vine but cannot reach them. But rather than admit defeat, he states that they are sour and not worth eating. Hence the expression “sour grapes”. In psychology, this is …
3….2….1….Click This!!
“The 3-Second Audition” If you’re still reading this, it means I passed my 3-second audition. What audition? In today’s world, 3 seconds is about as much time as you will get to capture your audience’s attention. We live in a fast-paced world and we increasingly live on our mobile devices. This mobile age has significantly reduced our attention span because we …
Have you asked your team to create a problem for you? Try it…
“What!? As if we don’t have enough problems already!” That’s your first reaction, I guess. But what if we creatively use “problem creation” to solve the business problems we all set out to solve in the first place? Strange as it sounds, this technique can often be useful for solving complex problems which teams get stuck and run out of fresh …