Conceiving of What Is Not

Conceiving of What Is Not

Imagination Applied

Conceiving of What Is Not

Imagination Applied

Unique or Novel CreativityThat Has Value

CEO use his/herbully pulpit.

Don’t assumeyou know what your customers

want or need.

Don’t think you can innovate by never leaving

your office.

Managethe inevitable

conflicts in your core

business.

What business tasks do we conduct, and why? Is the end result of these tasks bringing any value, or do we do them because we’ve always done them?

What reports are we creating or collecting, and why? Does anyone ever read them, or better yet, do we ever do anything of value with the information we collect?

Are the standing meetings we hold necessary and do they add or bring value?

What “red tape” or bureaucratic dictum is getting in the way of your employees … wasting time they could be using to be more creative?

Make creativity a team sport.

As a coach,pick the

right team.

Get used tofailure.

Get used tofailure.

Get used tofailure.

I am not discouraged,because every wrong attempt

discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

Get used tofailure.

I have not failed.Not once.

I've just found 10,000 ways

that won't work.

Thomas Edison

Trust.

Have a process.

Let’s warm up.

Get visual.

Get critical.

Find yourcreativesherpa.

Become morebalanced,

Grasshopper.

The environment and proximity

matters.

Relax.And take

your time.

Creativity is the

residue of time wasted.

Einstein

Don’t give up.

“If your actions inspire others

to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams 

“Imagination is more

importantthan

knowledge.” 

Albert Einstein

“I failed my way to success.”

 Thomas Edison

“One who fears failure limits his

activities. Failure is only the

opportunity to more intelligently

begin again.” 

Henry Ford

“Logic will get

you from A to B.

Imagination will take

you everywhere.” 

Albert Einstein

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

 Truman Capote

“The best way to predict the future

is to create it.” 

Abraham Lincoln

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the

things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw

off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

 Mark Twain

“Creativity is inventing,

experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”

 Mary Lou Cook

“Nothing encourages

creativity like the chance to

fall flat on one's face.”

 James D. Finley

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and

don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for

the endless immensity of the sea.” 

Antoine De Saint Exupery

“People who don’t take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year,

people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.”

 Peter Drucker

“It’s easy to come up with new

ideas; the hard part

is letting go of what worked

for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.”

 Roger von Oech

“The things we fear most in

organizations — fluctuations,

disturbances, imbalances —

are the primary sources of creativity.”

 Margaret J. Wheatley

“Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary

means you ship and then test… Lots of things

made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap –

but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”

 Guy Kawasaki

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to

go after it with a club.” 

Jack London

“Think left and think right and think low and

think high. Oh, the things you can

think up if only you try.”

 Dr. Seuss

“Creativity comes from a conflict

of ideas.” 

Donatella Versace

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little

guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed

obvious to them after a while.” 

Steve Jobs

"All great deeds and great thoughts have a ridiculous

beginning." 

Albert Camus

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never

hope more than you work.” 

Rita Mae Brown

 “Life is trying things to see if they work.”

 Ray Bradbury

“Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers

people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves

teamwork, productivity and,

where appropriate, profits.” 

Edward de Bono

“There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can

create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.”

 Warren G. Bennis

“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a

microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative

and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!”

 Peter McWilliams

“One of the advantages of

being disorderly is that one is

constantly making exciting

discoveries.” 

A. A. Milne

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your

mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with

archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and

creativity will instantly fill it.”

 Dee Hock

“Creativity is thinking up new things.

Innovation is doing new things.”

 Theodore Levitt

“All children are artists.

The problem is how to

remain an artist once

he grows up.” 

Pablo Picasso

“Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave

the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You

can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover

will be wonderful: yourself.” 

Alan Alda

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