In recent posts, I’ve been talking about why and how to create conditions conducive to reimagining. In this installment on how to reimagine, it’s time to do it.
If the goal is to paint a more vivid picture of a future you want, start by describing it. You can choose any medium for this — write it down, sketch it out, record it as you speak it aloud…
Continue reading “Be Imaginative Now”In my roles as a facilitator or team coach, I am frequently structuring group conversations to help people reach consensus. But lately, I’m noticing how often I am in settings where people are working independently alongside each other instead. Alone together.
Continue reading “Parallel Play”If you are in the process of reimagining your next chapter, as an organization or individually, then my encouragement for you today is this: put yourself in situations where flashes of insight are likely to hit you.
This advice is not “try to get hit by lightning.” And it is more than “be prepared” or “do your homework.” It’s more like “hang out where fresh perspectives live in high density.”
Continue reading “Stand in the way of insight”You know what it feels like to have been sitting in one position for too long — the muscles that have been bent strangely and stuck in one spot are basically useless for a bit until you get them moving again.
Can this metaphor also apply to our senses, or to other ways we process information? I suspect so.
Continue reading “Draw on all your senses”We know creativity increases with constraints.
So, what if one path to making wiser decisions faster is to tighten the screws?
And what if doing so were actually fun?
Continue reading “Personalized Creativity on a Deadline”
