This month's Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on Value Innovation (e.g. how to create something valuable and innovative) I learned from reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy. Missed the article? Check it out. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here.) After a … [Read more...] about The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: 6 free resources for Value Innovation via Blue Ocean Strategy
Dementia Quiz – test yourself with these 4 funny questions
Here are 4 questions to test for dementia (with tongue planted firmly in cheek). (Answers appear below.)1. You are a participant in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? 2. If you overtake the last person, then you are in what place? 3. Very tricky … [Read more...] about Dementia Quiz – test yourself with these 4 funny questions
How Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook Gave New Life To An Old Management Style (from Fast Company)
The following are excerpts from a Fast Company article by Katerina Walter (read the whole article here) - great examples of two very different perspectives working well together, each complimenting & filling in, the other's shadows without diminishing their own bright spots.The first example … [Read more...] about How Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook Gave New Life To An Old Management Style (from Fast Company)
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: Value Innovation via Blue Ocean Strategy
This month's Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on Value Innovation (e.g. how to create something valuable and innovative) I learned from reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy. Missed the article? Check it out. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here.) I'm … [Read more...] about The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: Value Innovation via Blue Ocean Strategy
Why parents age faster than people without kids
The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick. So he dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper. 'Hello?' 'Is your daddy home?' 'Yes, he's out in the garden,' whispered the small voice. 'May I talk with him?' The … [Read more...] about Why parents age faster than people without kids
What is the question to this answer? Helen Keller
I LOVE this exercise. Talk about a tool to increase creativity, critical thinking & more.It could be used as an exercise to warm up for a workshop - e.g. a workshop on culture could simply be introduced by the word 'culture'.It could be used as an informal assessment for a core concept, to … [Read more...] about What is the question to this answer? Helen Keller
The Toilet Of The Future Corrects The Mistake We're All Making In The Bathroom (via HuffPost)
Talk about turning a toilet on its head. Take a seat & take a peek. The squatty potty will revolutionize how you think about pooping. And that's a perspective changing game.(The excerpt below is from the Huffington Post; read the entire article here, including more pictures.) It wasn't … [Read more...] about The Toilet Of The Future Corrects The Mistake We're All Making In The Bathroom (via HuffPost)
How preschoolers learn? Sounds like good adult ed to me
How preschoolers learn? Sounds like good adult ed to me.Thanks to good friend Jean DuPlessis for passing this on. … [Read more...] about How preschoolers learn? Sounds like good adult ed to me
Breaking news: Chocolate counts as salad
On the dawn of a new year, perhaps this will come as a nice surprise & an interesting perspective .... Chocolate counts as salad. Happy day- may it be chocolate salad filled.'nuf said. … [Read more...] about Breaking news: Chocolate counts as salad
Did you connect all 9 dots? In more ways than 1?
Did you catch last week's post on how to connect all 9 dots in more ways than 1? If not & you want to try it yourself first without seeing the answers below, click on the original post here.I'd seen the exercise many years before & knew it had to do with 'drawing outside the lines'. … [Read more...] about Did you connect all 9 dots? In more ways than 1?
Open your mind before your mouth
Gotta love this photo from Truth Theory.Imagine the conflict, the battles, the narrowing of minds & mouths that would be avoided if we could do this easily & naturally.Imagine. ~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about … [Read more...] about Open your mind before your mouth
Can you connect all 9 dots? In more ways than 1?
Have you seen this exercise? Your task is to connect all 9 dots, without lifting your pen, & in no more than 3 lines.It's a popular exercise. I'd seen it years before when I saw this time around during the Social Innovation Safari. And that, was precisely my downfall.I knew 'the solution' … [Read more...] about Can you connect all 9 dots? In more ways than 1?
