Amp up your creativity through these thought provoking questions
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Spoiler alert: two weeks ago I wrote ‘How many sides does a circle have & other creativity provoking statements.’ I’ll answer the creativity questions in this post. Didn’t get a chance to see the first post? Check it out here first. Doing more, doing better Most of my clients are looking for ways […]
Tags: creativity, doing more doing better, innovation, questions
How many sides does a circle have & other creativity provoking statements inspired by the Maasai Mara
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Zebra, wildebeests & elands (the largest of the antelopes) scatter as our tiny plane lands on the dirt runway. The air is heavy & loamy after the recent rains. The sky is a whorl of mauves & grays, which will soon darken to slate as the rain starts again. The safari vehicle that takes us to […]
Tags: assessment, creativity, innovation, maasai mara
How can a tape measure inspire insight & a fresh perspective?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Teambuilding
It smelled like a pungent, loamy forest encased in a single, mysterious room. To this day I remember the smell of sawdust in that forbidden room of my childhood memories. My dad was a master hobby woodworker – he had a magical room chock a block full of electric saws, nails & screws in […]
Tags: creativity, insight, perspective
Revisiting your ‘Friend’s’ perspective – making the old new again
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
If you spent any length of time in North America in the 1990’s watching TV then you’ll know the show Friends. You’ll also likely have the opening song resonating somewhere in the dusty recesses of your mind. Prepare to haul it out & take a new listen. It’s lovely. Somewhat haunting. Evocative. And new. Perspective. […]
Tags: friends, perspecctive
How to get people to stop peeing on your walls…
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
What do you do if you’re sick & tired of having drunks pee on your house wall after the bars have let out? Check out this uber creative response. Talk about thinking outside the proverbial box or in this case, paint can.
Tags: Conflict resolution, creativity
Disappearing desks? Now that’s a commitment to wellness
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
Does your company stress the importance of wellness (pun intended)? Does it put its money, errr desks where its yoga matts are? Take a look. That’s some serious commitment to wellness (& to community development with allowing groups to use the space for free).
Tags: creativity, Wellness, yoga
To you it may be shit, to us it’s money
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
So says Isaac Durojayie, of DMT Mobile Toilet, Nigeria. He’s featured in Ashoka’s film on social entrepreneurship called Who Cares. Other than being an utterly captivating film, it’s chock-a-block full of people with unusual perspectives. People who see the world a little differently. Like Issac who’s started a thriving social entrepreneurship business, based on a […]
Tags: ashoka, social entrepreneurship
Hilarious Golden Retriever Really Wants To Race But.. First Things First
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
Fail fast. FailFests. Failure is in. Check out this exuberant, embraceable, enthusiastic fail (especially next time you fall on your face & are looking for the ‘fest in failing).
Tags: amani, failfest, failure, humour, ihub
What do you get when you combine Buddhism, rats & social entrepreneurship?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
A mighty interesting combination & a very cool perspective. I heard about Bart’s work when I watched an Ashoka film on social entrepreneurship. Bart Weetjens, is a Belgian zen Buddhist monk, a social entrepreneur who works in Tanzania. He trains rats (yes rats) to detect land mines & TB. My attention was caught by combining […]
Tags: ashoka, buddhism, land mines, social entrepreneurship
I wish you a return to yourself (with a little help from a Beagle)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Tonight marks the departure of family from Vancouver who’ve been visiting us in Nairobi for almost 5 weeks. We’ve seen a huge male lion defending his recent kill against howling hyenas & the all elusive leopard. We almost hooked an aged, injured hippo while fishing & we’ve shared more great meals than I have fingers […]
Tags: creativity, klm, new year