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The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It
If you're not risking failure, you're not risking enough. Why pushing outside of your comfort zone is a crucial part of the creative process.
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Be Solutionary, Not Revolutionary
Too often, we look for answers in the "big ideas." Yet the greatest innovations frequently spring from a series of small, incremental solutions.
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Fight Against Your Short-Term Rewards
From a young age, we are ingrained with a powerful short-term reward system. Yet, to make bold ideas happen, short-term rewards must be transcended.
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Avoid The Trap of Business Narcissism
When it comes to our own lives, we are often prone to thinking that every calamity or challenge that we encounter is a one-off, or "special case".
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Insights For The Interns Among Us
Rod Berg, Associate Director of Career Services at Parsons Design School, explores ten ways to land your dream internship in the creative world.
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Follow Passion, Not The Buck
The current economic climate provides the perfect impetus to start that passion project.
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Send Ideas to the Graveyard
Most ideas are like bad relationships: you know you have to move on but the idea of letting go seems too unbearable to handle.
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Stop Focusing on Visionaries
The vast majority of
new products fail; and the
root of the problem is the visionary’s tendency to focus on fellow
visionaries.
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Question Your Elders
While we don't want to waste our time reinventing the wheel, it's also true that new insights often question the conventional wisdom of our elders.
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Rely on Initiative, Not Experience
One’s past experience is typically regarded as the best indication of future success. But is it really the best way to judge a candidate?
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Breaking Schoolhouse Habits
Our years of formal schooling have created habits that actually set us back when it comes to productivity and pushing ideas forward.
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Unique Is Opportune
Ultimately, success is a result of differentiation and emphasizing your unique value.
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