Breakthrough Thinking on Creativity and Innovation
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Breakthrough Thinking on Creativity and Innovation
- 1. Tips on Breakthrough Thinking
- 2. Creativity can be taught, nurtured and enhanced
- 3. “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected” -William Plomer
- 5. Shibumi Elegant simplicity Beautiful imperfection Effortless effectiveness
- 6. Shibumi’s 7 Habits of the Highly Creative
- 7. Emphasizing the disciplines Koko of restraint, (Austerity) exclusion, and omission
- 8. Refrain from adding what is NOT absolutely necessary in the first place
- 9. “Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” - Steve Jobs
- 10. • You are donor unless you opt out • 4X participation over US
- 11. • No physical branches • Most highly recommended bank in UK
- 12. Beauty and utility need Kanso not be (simplicity) overstated
- 13. Eliminate what doesn’t matter to make more room for what does
- 14. Simplicity … The achievement of maximum effect with minimum means -Dr. Koichi Kawana
- 15. Apple iPad • Hide complexity from user • User interface … pick it up and use it
- 16. “ I wouldn’t give a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for simplicity on other side of complexity” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
- 17. “Perfection is achieved NOT when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” - Antoine de Saint Exupery
- 18. Balance between being of nature Shizen (naturalness) yet distinct from it
- 19. Before taking action, look for naturally occurring patterns and rhythms, and construct your ideas to fit them
- 20. • The busier a street, the safer it becomes • Mixed use means must slow down, use intelligence
- 21. “Creativity is just connecting things” - Steve Jobs
- 22. Power of suggestion exalted as authentic creation
- 23. Leave something to the imagination by limiting information
- 24. • Limiting information seduces viewer • Tantalizing suggestion over exactitude
- 25. • Demonstrated once in Janurary 2007 • No more information until it went on sale in June 2007
- 26. Incomplete renderings … …goal is to create viewer collaboration
- 27. Appreciate the beauty of natural imperfection… Leave the door open for others to co-create with you
- 28. Seek a philosophy and a process that fosters personal collaboration between Your team Clients And their customers
- 29. • Target Gen Y customers • Toyota dropped hundreds of standard options allowing customers to maximize customization
- 30. In active calm and tranquility one finds essence of creative energy
- 31. Learn to quiet your mind; designate a time and place for creative solitude
- 32. • Study of Buddhist meditation • Abnormally high gamma brainwaves (which proceed aha! moments)
- 33. “Stand still when the hippos charge” -Boyd Matson
- 34. Doing something isn’t always better than doing nothing
- 35. Transcending the ordinary and conventional
- 36. Re-energize your creativity by taking regular ‘timeouts’ every 90 minutes
- 37. • Tony Schwartz use of ‘pulse’ method in his writing • First book took 12 months, 10 hours day • Second book, using 3 90 minute segments per day, took less than 6 months
- 38. “Best new year’s resolution? A stop doing list” -Jim Collins
- 39. • Ingenuity in craft • Pursuit of perfection • Rhythm of fit
- 40. • Companies don’t innovate, people do • Simple question … is there a better way? • No challenge, no creativity • Whatever your work, make it your art
- 41. • Ingenuity is starting point, perfection the vector • Focus on chasing, not achieving perfection • No best, only better • Discipline of big leap through small steps
- 42. • System thinking … understand context, cause and effect • Find and fit rhythm of change happening around us, in larger context
- 43. Final thoughts
- 44. Practice and nurture your creative skill strengths
- 45. About Dr. Schoultz Dr. Schoultz has thirty five years of business development, marketing, technology, and business operations experience. He served as VP / President of Distribution Technologies, a company he helped to found and grow to a 700 M + / year market leader. Dr. Schoultz Ph. D. is from the University of Virginia.
- 46. Thank You ! • digitalsparkm@gmail.com • Digitalspark.tumblr.com • Twitter: mikeschoultz