The Creativity Project

I heard about Best Buy’s Results Only Work Environment last year when I was searching for ways to make a work environment more entrepreneurial and engaging. It seems like a such a simple concept – focus on results only, treat people as adults and let them get their work done however they see best – [...]

Over the weekend, a colleague in the in open space retreat I attended suggested a method for communicating project status across a team without long, inefficient update meetings. At the begining of each day, the project team (say 20 people) get together, and in the space of 15 minutes, everyone gives a brief update of [...]

Seth Godin explores a new standard for meetings and conferences and how to justify the increasing cost and time commitment of travel. Face-to-face contact is much more effective than internet-related conferencing tools and Seth hits an important point that we need to address this effectively. One powerful method Seth missed in his analysis is Open [...]

Attended a talk this evening at the London Business School by Julian Birkinshaw about the Management Innovation Lab, aka the M-Lab. Here is a group focused on innovating around management – examining current models of management and creating more effective working environments. So, what’s the secret? To make matters more challenging, there is no play-book, [...]

When I am highly creative, my mood is playful: I am engaged and having fun, exploring ideas to solve the problem at hand.When it comes to business, I have the mental model that work is supposed to be “serious” and “professional” – and I act accordingly. If I accept this model, I limit myself from [...]