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Eclectic Creative Prompts
In a recent Fast Company slideshow,
designers combine typography with skin, stones and shopping carts (among other things); creating interesting and sometimes unsettling images, and providing opportunities to practice two Fresh Ideas strategies: ‘Collect the Eclectic‘ and ‘Make a Note of Unusual Combinations.’
Add comment June 9, 2010
Eight Superstars’ Best Mistakes
In this post from Wired Magazine, there are interesting stories of how eight superstars’ stumbles and missteps taught them
- not feel sorry for yourself, and the importance of listening. (Bill Clinton)
- how quickly perception can become reality. (Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu)
- “…it’s never as bad (or as good) as it seems at the time.” (Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media)
- to invest for the long term. (Meg Whitman, former CEO of EBay)
- the value of rapid prototyping. (Max Levchin, CEO of Slide)
and more. Excellent real-world reminders of the principles described in the complementary Fresh Ideas issue Risk Failing Well .
Add comment March 8, 2010
Welcome to Fresh Ideas: What Works
Have you sampled the free issues of Fresh Ideas? They present three distinctly different ways to keep your thinking flexible and fresh:
Which of these approaches have you found to be the most interesting or effective? What happened as a result of applying any of them?
Thanks for adding your comments; I’m looking forward to continuing our discussions.
Tracy
PS: Subscribers, a new issue is coming soon!
4 comments November 27, 2009
