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Generate Ideas In Moderation
Generating new ideas can be intoxicating, but it can also throw you off course and fritter away your team's focus on projects already underway.
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Checkpoints: Discipline
Discipline is a set of imposed expectations and boundaries that help you keep your energy and time focused on what is most important.
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Silence the Creative Visionary!
Visionary leaders run the risk of overriding the ideas of the brilliant people around them. Sometimes, restraint is needed when engaging a team.
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Checkpoints: Accountability
You're more likely to follow through with an idea when you know someone else is watching, waiting, or participating.
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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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Checkpoints: Self-Presentation
We are inclined to believe that our work and talent should speak for themselves. But it turns out self-presentation is a key factor for successful creatives.…
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Supervising Productivity
Instilling accountability is crucial for moving ideas forward, but Big Brother-ish supervision can quash creativity. We look at finding the balance.
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Restricting The Creative Perfectionist
When setting forth on a creative project, a few restrictions may help tame perfectionist tendencies.
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Urgent vs. Important
How do we move forward in the short-term while still honoring long-term vision? Learning to be mindful of urgent vs important items is the first step.
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Moving The Ball Forward
A few questions to help you consider whether you're moving forward... or not.
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Creativity Amidst Bureaucracy
Capturing action steps and moving quickly is the key to avoiding a never-ending loop of inaction in bureaucratic environments.
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Measure Meetings With Action
While some of the greatest ideas and solutions come up in brainstorm meetings, we also lose most of our time in discussion without action.
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