Creativity Tweets from this Past Week

Published on March 27, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Creativity, Quotes, Twitter

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Here are 10 favorited creativity tweets from Twitter during the past week. If you’d like to see more, you can follow me on Twitter in a couple of places: @mikebrown or @brainzooming

@ExecVelocity Coaching DQ: What new elements can improve workplace creativity and what is holding you back from implementing them?

@douglasbrent: Authentic creativity generates ideas, not smoke and mirrors.

@Ekaterina_E “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” George Lois

@AW0LF The older you get, the more experienced you become. Experience inspires creativity and that’s the recipe for greatness.

@williamskim #Creativity – Frustration is as much a part of creativity as inhaling is to breathing.


@PastorChaney How will you inspire someone to realize, unleash and engage their magnificent God given creativity today?

@bsouthern “Creativity without implementation is irresponsibility.” Ted Leavitt

@EddyJFree: Creativity is great. Everybody’s got it some just don’t know it. Use it in every aspect of your life to get a fresh outlook.

@Think_Better Creativity takes the drive to try, the courage to fail, the humility to learn, and the persistence to try again.

@cartermorrison Creativity is such a bitch


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Brainzooming – Get Out of the Office

Published on March 6, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Creativity, Innovation, Insights, Quotes, Strategic Thinking, Tools

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Don’t believe great ideas and fun are intertwined?

Here’s a quote from Parade Magazine by John Kirhoffer, the challenge producer for each of Survivor’s 17 seasons:

“My team and I go surfing in the morning before work – we call it ‘board meetings.’ The best ideas don’t happen in a cubicle. They happen while we’re having fun.”

So get out of your office this afternoon, find a fun place, and create new solutions to your business challenges!

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Let Other People Talk Week – Quotes and Links from Twitter

Published on February 27, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Collaboration, Creativity, Diversity, Guest author, Innovation, Quotes, Special Week, Strategic Thinking, Twitter

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Wrap up for “Let Other People Talk” week features a few more quotes and links on various Brainzooming-oriented topics, nearly all from Twitter.

Quotes
@CynthiaY29: “Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse

@artrox: Charles Handy “The modern economies will not be constrained by lack of resources but only by lack of creativity & ideas.”

RT @boxofcrayons: RT @joevans: From Sir Ken Robinson: “If you are not prepared to be wrong — you will not come up with anything original.…

RT @CreativityBoost: Action is the best way to give doubt the middle finger. via @johnhaydon
Best quote heard so far this week: “Slow down and think so you can go fast.”

RT @Orrin_Woodward: “The successful leader gets superior performance from ordinary people”. ~Al Kaltman

RT @sallyhogshead: We were born w/ the ability to do 1 thing better than anyone else on earth. Trick is to find out exactly what YOURS is.

@AdamTheHutt: Some interviewee on NPR just declared that “motherhood is the necessity of innovation”…funny idea if you think about

@Zindella: Aristotle once said: Today I am short of time, so I am going to write you a long letter.

Links

Free Ideas Ready for You to Implement! Wacha Waitin’ For? RT @plish: Hamster Burial Kits & 998 Other Business Ideas http://post.ly/1Yb

50% of companies look for strategic thinking RT @davidharkleroad: Best Companies for Ldrs, Chief Exec Magazine: http://tinyurl.com/bhuc5p

The importance of group dynamics RT @stef: The qualities that make a successful innovator are actually ones a group shares http://is.gd/juOB

Also from Heart of Innovation – 100 Lamest Reasons Not to Innovate in 2009 http://tinyurl.com/79t3t3

Heart of Innovation on “56 Reasons Business Innovation Fails” http://tinyurl.com/5df2mm
RT @mindfulmimi: Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity – Bo Bennett http://ff.im/13vPD

Comment: New way of presenting food groups RT @plish: Mindmap of foods to boost productivity (and creativity!) http://tinyurl.com/cz5h4c

Cool cust exp mktg! RT @gabysslave:..sometimes wish i had clients prepared 2b challenged w/ really great ideas like this http://bit.ly/Po7Fp

Read the Great Springboard Blog! RT @kevinfullerton: Follow Your Connections to the End http://tinyurl.com/cxad3u

Hope you’ve enjoyed the variety this week. See you back here next week!

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Let Other People Talk Week – Innovation Ideas

Published on February 26, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Creativity, Innovation, Quotes, Special Week

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Here are innovation thought starters harvested from Twitter. You can follow me on Twitter in two places now: @mikebrown and @brainzooming. There’s slightly different content at each – at least for now!

@ireckon marc andreessen: innovation happens – create, destroys, recreate. Failures free up intellectual capital for next innovation

@DanKok Innovation is now the principal competitive weapon – G. Beaver. And innovation only happens with innovative people.

@pinnovation innovation demands highly motivated and engaged employees…create cultures in which people can bring their passion to the work

@roymap Innovation comes from asking great questions. Not from always having the answers.

@ransomtech Chew on this: “We tend to overestimate the short-term effects and underestimate the long-term effects of innovation” ~Chip Bruce

@Adambow #Novate Innovation is being able to combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view

@retailsprout “Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.” – Carisa Bianchi President of TBWAChiatDay

@FullerJohn RT @JeffAbel: The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else. ~ Harold R. McAlindonm

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Let Other People Talk Week – Creative Quickie Quotes

Published on February 23, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Creative Quickies, Creativity, Guest author, Quotes, Special Week, Twitter

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For variety, I’m going to primarily shut up and listen this week, sharing links, quotes, and ideas on innovation, creativity, and strategic thinking. I’ll offer my thoughts in the comments section at Brainzooming. I hope to find yours there too! Let’s get started!

Creative Quickie – Creativity Quotes

Here are some quick quotes on creativity right from Twitter, so they may or may not be accurate. Enjoy them and add your cool quotes in the comments!
@ShaunConnell Rationality begets creativity. Until you understand the box, you can’t think outside the box.
@healthyincome4u Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~Edward De Bono
@PopWuping “If limitation spawns creativity, is the limitless resource of the Internet a good thing?” — Alec Soth
@earthXplorer “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” ~ Anonymous
@pixelati “Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.” – Thomas Disch
@hottomali Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams
@boxofcrayons RT @joevans: From Sir Ken Robinson: “If you are not prepared to be wrong — you will not come up with anything original.
@boxofcrayons RT @joevans: More Sir Ken: People are being educated out of their creative capacity. We do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it.
@JackieAustinBNC Creativity is generated by humor combined with conflict. WOW
@lildrummergie routinely doin somethin u enjoy over & over again, without variation or creativity, can diminish even that enjoyment. swimmin for instance
@pseudoliterat “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
@gregnyc Fast Company Editor: “[Only creativity and aggressive innovation...will fuel a turnaround.]”

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Sports Strategy Lessons Week – Jimmy Spencer – “Mr. Strategic”

Published on February 16, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Implementation, Insights, Performance, Quotes, Special Week, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

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We’re in an annual transitional time in sports. Football just wrapped up, baseball spring training has started, and Matt Kenseth won the rain-shortened Daytona 500 in NASCAR yesterday. There was even a big poker tournament on ESPN Sunday. While there’s not a lot on sports here, this week’s articles will each touch on sports-related strategy lessons.

“One of Them Racing Lessons”
For several years, I ran a NASCAR sponsorship. It was a wonderful testing ground for guerrilla marketing approaches, and surprisingly, yielded a great strategy story from an unlikely source – our driver, Jimmy Spencer, “Mr. Excitement.”
At a 2002 Dover, DE race, our team had a good but not great car. The weather was iffy all day as storm clouds rolled over, and rain drops weren’t far behind. As the rain started, most cars stayed on the track to keep their positions, figuring the race would be rained out.
Instead of following, our car left its position among the leaders, heading for a pit stop to get gas and tires just as the race was halted. As a result, we went to the back of the pack, ruining our chances for a strong finish – if the rain washed out the race.
Why did the team make the decision?
Our team checked all available radar information and saw the rain should stop after too long. Knowing our car’s mileage and tire wear, coupled with how much of the race would remain if it resumed, the team used a strategy based on its insight (and expectation) the race would go the distance.
So what happened?
Unlike yesterday’s Daytona 500, the clouds moved on and the race resumed. While nearly every other car headed for the pits, Jimmy Spencer moved up to third. As racing heated up near the end, the first and second place cars made contact, slowing down just enough for Jimmy to drive underneath them and take the lead. “Mr. Excitement” won the race.
Even though we’d try to script what Jimmy would say, we’d always hold our breath when they gave Jimmy the microphone. In the winner’s circle that day, Jimmy made an unexpected great strategic statement: “We didn’t have the best car today, but we had the best strategy.”
I’m not sure if Jimmy meant all that in his comment, but I’ve used this story many times since because it’s truly a great strategic insight with value to all business strategists! – Mike Brown

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Creative Quickie Week – Finding Inspiration in a Mexican Hotel Room

Published on January 23, 2009 by in Brainzooming - All Posts, Creative Instigation, Creativity, Quotes, Special Week

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The first quote below from Matthew Arnold was on a cardboard coaster in my hotel room in Cancun, Mexico last year. It was intriguing, and I brought it back. Doing some quick research on him, uncovered a variety of intriguing quotes of his:

  • “Culture is properly described as the love of perfection.”
  • “For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”
  • “Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”
  • “The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
  • “Greatness is a spiritual condition.”
  • “To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”

Hope you enjoyed Creative Quickie Week, and watch for weekend updates on Twitter!

Mike Brown

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