How do you look at tough or impossible situations? What if you lost your eye glasses in the ocean? How would you deal with that in a creative manner? Is you company looking for ways to spark creative thoughts that can lead to developing a competitive edge? Take a look at this blog post from my Emotional Intelligence Guru @Brent Darnell that details a few tips for fostering creativity.
How do you make your competition irrelevant? There are only two things you have that others don’t:
1. your people
2. innovation—coming up with new ways of doing things
So, how do you cultivate creativity in yourself and your people and innovation in your company? Here are some simple things you can do.
Cultivate Personal Creativity
1. Get rid of your limitations. When you find yourself in doubt or saying something can’t be done, reframe the situation and don’t limit yourself. We are always our own biggest limitation. My wife often tells the story of when I lost my glasses in the Baltic Sea. I was conducting a week-long seminar in a remote village in northern Sweden. On Monday, I jumped into the 42-degree water after a sauna and lost my glasses. I called my wife, who contacted my optometrist, who faxed my prescription to the conference center the next day.
On Tuesday, I thought, if I could find someone…
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