The Creative Innovation Blog
The Power of Recognition: Catching People Doing Things Right
In a world where criticism often outweighs praise, catching people doing things right becomes a revolutionary act. It's a simple, yet profound, gesture that has the power to transform relationships, teams, ensembles, and communities.
How To Achieve Your Innovative Mindset
An innovative mindset is often characterized by a relentless pursuit of novelty and improvement. It is not merely about generating new ideas but also about the implementation and execution of those ideas in ways that create value. This mindset is distinct from an entrepreneurial mindset, which often focuses on identifying and exploiting business opportunities. While both mindsets value creativity and initiative, an innovative mindset emphasizes the process of making something new or improved, regardless of the entrepreneurial outcome.
How to be Innovative: Unlocking Creativity in Everyday Tasks
To foster innovation in the mundane, one must first recognize the potential in everyday challenges. Whether it's finding a new route to work to spark different thoughts or reimagining how to organize your workspace for better productivity, innovation starts with a willingness to question and experiment. It’s about turning the coffee-making ritual into a test lab for efficiency or seeing a team meeting as a chance to brainstorm creatively, rather than a time sink.
Creativity and Innovation: Tools Against Depression & Suicide
9-8-8. Perhaps the most important phone number there is for you. Depression and suicide are real. They affect more than just the person experiencing it. Perhaps there is a way for creativity and innovation to help.
Multitasking Costs Creative & Productivity- The Switch Cost Effect
While multitasking might make us feel productive, it can also lead to a phenomenon known as the "switch cost effect." This cognitive phenomenon has a profound impact on various aspects of our lives, including creative innovation and productivity. It is estimated to take 23 minutes to regain the level of focus we had on a task from even just a moment of interruption. How many interruptions do you have in a day?
Creativity and Praising Effort Deliver Long-Term Success
In a world that values innate intelligence and talent, it is crucial to recognize the long-term benefits of praising effort. By doing so, we foster a growth mindset that promotes resilience, continuous improvement, and self-confidence. However, the power of praising effort is amplified when combined with creativity. Creativity not only enhances problem-solving and adaptability but also fuels intrinsic motivation.
Shared Struggles of Entrepreneurs and Parents in Motivation
Parenthood and entrepreneurship are two seemingly distinct aspects of life, but they share surprising similarities when it comes to risk, motivation, and responsibility. Both roles involve taking on significant challenges, making sacrifices, and striving for long-term rewards. Let’s explore how being a business founder or executive compares to being a parent, focusing on the risk-reward dynamic and how it impacts motivation and commitment in the longer term. Then, a small thought experiment on how employees or children perceive these.
Can A Blaise Legal Communication Shift Perceptions About How Innovative You Are?
I am not advocating that Zoom or Google Meets is better or worse than each other. The point of this discussion is more about how you feel when considering what might be innovative and how innovation truly is about fulfilling the actual values of a customer by putting them first. It matters at all levels of communication with your customers.
It Is Only Scary In Your Head
In the quest for growth and self-improvement, there exists a hidden source of immense power: doing something scary or incredibly uncomfortable. While it is natural for humans to seek comfort and security, it is in those moments of fear and discomfort that true transformation occurs. The road less traveled is often riddled with challenges and obstacles, but those who dare to confront their fears head-on unleash a profound inner strength that can reshape their lives. More specifically, they can reframe their lives because of the realization that it is our minds that are holding us back from attempting to accomplish the big dream.
The Power of Prioritization: If It's Not Now, It's Not a Priority
Time is a precious and finite resource, and how we choose to utilize it often determines our success and fulfillment in life. From daily tasks to long-term goals, understanding what truly matters and prioritizing accordingly is essential for productivity and personal growth. One powerful principle that can significantly enhance our decision-making process is the notion that if the answer to the question, "When are you going to do something?" isn't "now," then it isn't a priority. This article explores the importance of this mindset and how adopting it can lead to a more focused and purpose-driven life.
Embracing Imperfection: Letting Go of the Fear of Being Wrong for Personal Growth
The heaviest weight you can lose is the opinions of others that make you smaller.
Who Defines Your Fun?
Fun can be shared in large groups, but it is always experienced by the individual. Understanding that individualistic perception of the experience is what opens up the possibility of diversity, exploration, and discovery. It brings authentic self-expression and personal well-being to life so that we may live a fun, fulfilled, and happy existence.
Quiet Hiring Leads To Quiet Quitting
While the intention behind quiet hiring may be to reduce distractions and maintain confidentiality, it can have negative consequences that undermine team dynamics and organizational culture because it leads to resentment and distrust. Those lower creativity, innovation, and, ultimately, morale. We will explore how this can lead to quiet quitting (where individuals are unwilling to put in any extra effort and save their energy for those they see as willing to invest in them).
Success Traits
This post briefly touches on the top five traits for success. Grit, Saying No, Creative Communication, Demonstrating Humility and Following to Lead.
Change shouldn’t be by chance
Hopefully, you notice these gradually build and move you from your comfort zone to an area of discomfort. That is how you change. It is the only way we #change.
Pareto Principle & Creativity
The Pareto Principle also applies to creativity. When done correctly it will lead to true innovation that delivers greater productivity.
I have Failed too
13 years ago, I started an adventure to help protect kids and families so they could get home safely. In the event someone did go missing, the kick-off to the process was incredibly more streamlined 15 minutes vs. 4 hours. I sank over $100,000 into this business to start it. The requirement me to wipe out my retirement accounts (including the penalties and taxes).
Creativity Requires Time
The question you may have is, how do you find the time? The answer is you don't. You already have it.The only thing you have that is truly yours is time.The problem is you are too diluted, meaning you simply need to stop doing some things. That is a radical notion, but it is the only logical one. Take a lunch, do not take work home after being at the office all day, and absolutely sign out when you are on holidays, vacations, or just days off.
Formula for Change
C=DxFxV>R is the formula for change. Any one of the factors being zero eliminates any hope to overcome the resistance that inhibits change.
Kids insight into stress relief
Kids get stressed like adults. They also start to learn to hide it at an early age so they aren’t adding stress to others.