Since publishing a series of posts on dating and living in the last couple of weeks, I’ve been asked several times how I came up with the idea to see dating as a kind of metaphor for life. The immediate source of the story was pretty mundane – someone asked me a question about another article and I used going on a date as an example to illustrate… Continue reading
September 29 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: creativity, idea, thinking, writing | 15 comments»
“If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”– Johnny Carson In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some of the ways that life deals us a bum hand, and some of the ways we can deal with that. In this post, I continue the list, starting with some oddnesses about factors that seem to play as big a role, if not even… Continue reading
September 2 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumption, decision-making, fairness, height, idea, innovation, mind, thinking | 12 comments»
Leaders have more power than they realize. They can patiently create a climate of creativity or they can crush it in a series of subtle comments and gestures. Their actions send powerful signals. Their responses to suggestions and ideas are deciphered by staff as encouragement or rejection. If you want to crush creativity in your organization and eliminate all the unnecessary bother of innovation then here… Continue reading
August 28 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, culture, idea, innovation, leader, leadership | 21 comments»
We spend a lot of time at Lifehack talking about getting organized – making up lists, labeling files, simplifying your workspace, and so on. Everything in its place, and a place for everything, right? There’s nothing wrong with this view of organization, so long as you’re getting more work done than the time you’re spending on staying organized. But a lot of times, our brains don’t work quite so neatly. For… Continue reading
July 9 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, filing, flexibility, idea, randomness, search, unschedule | 12 comments»
1. Have a Vision for Change You cannot expect your team to be innovative if they do not know the direction in which they are headed. Innovation has to have a purpose. It is up to the leader to set the course and give a bearing for the future. You need one overarching statement which defines the direction for the business and which people will readily understand and remember… Continue reading
April 15 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: change, collaboration, idea, innovation, leader, leadership, suggestion, vision | 10 comments»
Considering the variety of applications you can download for the iPhone and iPod Touch from Apple’s comprehensive AppStore, it was only a matter of time until someone introduced a brainstorming tool for these popular devices: The Idea Generator. Developed by creative consultancy The Director’s Bureau, this intriguing tool uses randomly-displayed words to help you generate ideas for your next creative project. Continue reading
March 23 2009 | By Chuck | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, idea, idea generator, iphone, ipod | 8 comments»
The ability to generate creative, profitable, problem-solving ideas is growing in importance, especially with the global economy stuck in the doldrums. But how can you be creative on demand? Here are four pocket-sized card decks that you can take anywhere – to your next team meeting or to a quiet park where you can brainstorm free from distractions – to help you generate your next breakthrough idea. Continue reading
March 6 2009 | By Chuck | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, idea, ideation, innovation, mind | 22 comments»
How can you think of things that no-one else thinks of? The answer is by deliberately taking a different approach to the issue from everyone else. There are dominant ideas in every field. The brilliant thinker purposefully challenges those dominant ideas in order to think innovatively.
Albert Szent-Gyorgy, who discovered Vitamin C, said, ‘Genius is seeing what everyone else sees and thinking what no-one else has thought.’ If… Continue reading
March 3 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, genius, idea, innovation, lateral thinking, originality, think | 25 comments»
Mind-mapping is a popular tool for brainstorming ideas, outlining projects, and organizing information. While some people feel most comfortable mind-mapping with pencils or pens and paper, others enjoy the ease and accessibility of software-based mind-mapping, and there are a variety of tools designed to help make, share, and store mind-maps on your computer. Some, like MindManager and iMindMap are powerful, enterprise-level programs, with price tags to match; free… Continue reading
February 24 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: brainstorming, creativity, idea, mind mapping, mind-map, xmind | 21 comments»
One of the keys to any productivity system is to actually put things into the system. Who knew? Obvious though it may seem, many of us have trouble taking the time to enter our thoughts into our task-manager, to-do list, or organizational system. This can happen for any number of reasons - no paper nearby, no easy way to record your ideas - but our productivity can be hurt by not inputting… Continue reading
February 24 2009 | By David | Tagged: brain, capture, creativity, idea, mind-dump, trigger, weekly review | 11 comments»
When are you at your creative peak? That is, what time of day do ideas flow most easily for you? What activities bring your best ideas to the surface where you can most easily gather them up? A recent survey by the Crown Plaza hotel group suggests that certain times and activities are more conducive to creative thinking than others [PDF download]. The most creative time, they found, was… Continue reading
November 10 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, creativity, idea, rhythm, schedule | 17 comments»
by libertyandvigilance "Social media" has numerous definitions, and all of them share the principle that the Internet has given us a lot of cheap ways to communicate with each other. As computers have gotten cheaper and broadband pipes have become fatter, we've expanded the multimedia involved: text has been prominent since the BBS glory days, but pictures are up there too, and making your… Continue reading
October 20 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: argument, blog, comment, conversation, humor, idea, media, self-expression, social, social-media | 20 comments»
Photo by docpi First, the title's meant a touch colloquially. Second, that doesn't budge the fact there's a lot of truth to it. Third, if you're into lifehacks (presumably that's why you're reading this blog), particularly marketing ones, I'll reveal why the best marketers knowing each other matters to you. There's no shortage of self-help books that claim to help you get what you want. Some… Continue reading
October 17 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: connected, connection, fame, followup, godin, humor, idea, kawasaki, marketer, marketing, media, meme, Money, social, success | 14 comments»
Procrastination is very literally the opposite of productivity. To produce something is to pull it forward, while to procrastinate is to push it forward -- to tomorrow, to next week, or ultimately to never. Procrastination fills us with shame -- we curse ourselves for our laziness, our inability to focus on the task at hand, our tendency to be easily led into easier and more immediate gratifications. And with good reason… Continue reading
September 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, concepting, idea, planning, procrastination, task | 24 comments»
One of the nicest things you can do for other people is make yourself easy to remember. Instead of burning their brains trying to recall who you are and what you stand for, a personal catchphrase is a elegant anchor to the rest of you. It serves as a compact memory assistant that melts mental blocks. You don’t… Continue reading
July 22 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: catchphrase, idea, marketing, memory, mind, seo, slogan, social, stickyness, word | 30 comments»
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