How Artists Teach Kohler Best Practices in Innovation
A notable number of companies have artist-in-residence programs. American manufacturer Kohler Co., based in Wisconsin, is one of them. Since 1873, Kohler has been producing household equipment,...
View ArticleCan Mozart Manage ADD?
Companies like Shell, IBM, and DuPont use music to create an atmosphere that accelerates learning and optimizes memory. Music is a powerful way to access a joyful, playful state of mind. It is also a...
View ArticleHow Instinct and Intuition Can Help You Navigate the Economy 3.0 (Part One)
No, no! You’re not thinking, you’re just being logical. –Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize winner in physics To date, our collective approach to human intelligence often relies on outdated concepts. The...
View ArticleHow Instinct and Intuition Can Help You Navigate the Economy 3.0 (Part 2)
In the 1960s, Dr. Douglas Dean, along with his colleague John Mihalasky, studied approximately five thousand executives. Eighty percent of them said they believed in extrasensory perception (ESP) and...
View ArticleInstinct and Intuition Can be Trained
Aside from business executives, there are other professionals who use intuition and instinct, and in some cases it is about crude survival tactics. In war, life-and-death decisions must be made...
View ArticleWhen Can I Trust Gut Feelings?
Gut feelings about potential threats and opportunities are not always correct, and neuroscientists debate the conditions under which the feelings precede the conscious awareness of the clues...
View ArticlePrejudice Against Instinct and Intuition
Many of us—even when we experience success—are uncomfortable with the idea of using our instincts as a guidance tool. We are embarrassed to say that we follow hunches, we mistrust the sometimes-cryptic...
View ArticleThe Science Behind Gut Feelings
Because our instinct is responsible for our survival, it actually makes complete sense for it to be heavily involved in sophisticated decisions. It has been doing that job for thousands of years. So...
View ArticleWhy your organization needs to balance results with play
Imagine yourself driving to someone’s house for a surprise birthday party. Every guest has been asked to arrive at a certain time to keep the surprise a surprise. You left home late. You’re in a...
View ArticleHow Your Office Space Can Affect Creativity and Innovation
Space affects moods. A beautiful space can make people happy; a small cramped office can make them feel depressed. But more important, space also affect behaviors and communication. Open space...
View ArticleHow perfectionism can keep your organization from succeeding
From the mailroom all the way to the C-suite, employees have developed an exceptional capacity for reading between the lines. The boss or the shareholders may say they want innovation, but the...
View ArticleThe Role of Constraints in Creativity
Fostering an atmosphere of creativity and innovation doesn’t require business leaders to concede all control or throw all rules out of the window. In fact, the judicious and clear application of...
View ArticleGiving up on Uniformity can Increase Creativity
Giving up on uniformity is really about acknowledging in tangible ways the fact that different people require different conditions in order to perform at their best. So rather than requiring everyone...
View ArticleThe Importance of Rituals in the Workplace
Rituals are significant and powerful. Symbols can have a great impact, as they communicate beyond words and convey meanings without explicit explanations. Rituals and symbols play an important role in...
View ArticleTaking Stock of Today’s Business World
The best business leaders want to innovate, embrace change, and create new business approaches because they recognize the need to evolve. And yet in business too many leaders still do things by the...
View ArticleIntuitive Intelligence: The New Key to Problem Solving and Decision Making...
Intuitive Intelligence is a different way to organize and use what we already know and what we are already capable of doing. It helps us understand how to make use of our inherent abilities and...
View ArticleIntuitive Intelligence: The New Key to Problem Solving and Decision Making...
Last week we began a discussion of Intuitive Intelligence as a way to make use of our inherent abilities and aptitudes in the task of creative problem solving and optimum decision making. The four...
View ArticleBuild Holistic Thinking Into the DNA of Your Brand For Outstanding Results
When it comes to business, too often we expect profitability to be the driver of satisfaction, and therefore of motivation. But this isn’t actually how it works. When we want people to be creative or...
View ArticleWhy You Should Revisit Google’s Interior Design Strategy If You Want Your...
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Thinking paradoxically is an exercise in setting linear and logical patterns aside for a while and opening ourselves up to the...
View ArticleStop Thinking and Start Feeling to Gain Key Customer Insights
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Creativity and innovative thinking are great, but the ability to notice the one pivotal piece of information in a creative...
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