Tag Archives: Problem solving

5 Problem-Solving Self-Care Solutions

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Ever on the hunt for consumer goods that solve ubiquitous annoyances, I’ve come across a selection of self-care solutions that can be of particular benefit during the spring and summer season in...

Flow States: Answers To The Three Most Common Questions About Optimal Performance

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About a month back, my organization—the Flow Genome Project—put out a call for questions. We asked our community, when it came to understanding flow states, if there was anything they’d really like...

Why Innovation Needs Outsiders and Fresh Ideas

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When we’re stuck on a hard problem, we go seek out a superior. It seems like common sense. It’s something that is imbued into us from childhood and into adulthood. When you can’t solve that math...

How Creativity is Enhanced by Technology

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I recently wrote a post about how marketers will need to learn to rely less on judgment and intuition in the era of big data.  It’s a controversial subject, especially since many marketers pride...

Talk Outside the Box

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Our imaginations are limited by our experience; our routine; our habitual ways of working, thinking, and dreaming. This isn’t intended to be dispiriting news. But it is weighty news worth serious...
    






5 Goals I’m Setting For My Business In 2014

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We’re all guilty of it. We set our resolutions on the 31st of December, jazzed to make progress in our personal and professional lives, and then, by the middle of January, we’re bored. Our goals,...
    






Sick Of Sports: Why Rock Bands Are A Better Metaphor For Work Teams

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Sports teams are the canonical metaphor for teamwork. We try to “pick winners” to score “slam dunks.” Team leaders “coach” team members and then “send in heavy hitters” who “step up to the plate”...
    






Little Changes Matter A Lot–And Other Innovation Lessons From LEGOs

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You can do far more with what you’ve got than you realize. And innovation is easier than you can imagine. Consider a LEGO brick. How many combinations do you think you can create from just six...