Do an experiment; ask members of your team to write down the purpose of the team’s current innovation and see if everyone shares the same precise purpose. Is there a lot of agreement, or disparity? If you do not create a strong, viable purpose, your efforts will be scattered and undirected. Ask...

Team operating guidelines are simple statements about how the team wants to work together and treat one another. By their very nature, creativity and innovation can be abrasive and involve conflicting preferences and points of view. Without well-established and reinforced team guidelines, all this abrasion...

You are already creative but what about expanding and accelerating your creativity? Try one or two of these ideas: 1. Consistently ask yourself the question, “If we weren’t doing it this way, how would we do it? 2. Pay attention to small ideas – that’s where big ones start. 3. When you think...

The future we see is colored by our personal theory of how the future is shaped. There are several popular future theories. One theory of the future is the Garden Hose Theory. Picture yourself with your eye to the end of a hosepipe and someone “out there” has turned on the tap. It’s just a matter...

What is this power? Do we all have it? Thought creates. Thought is causal, causative. Thought is the originator of everything that is brought into being, the starting point of every new creation. This is a profound fact and a demonstrable one. Mind is the realm of causes. Effects flow from causes, not...

For the past 200 years we have been thinking, and consequently acting, with a machine-like mentality. During the Industrial Revolution, we began to see the company as a machine. We believed that an organization, like a “good” machine, could be controlled, and it should do what the owners...