2000 years of cultural migration mapped in just over a minute
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
How cool is this – 2000 years of culture mapped in just over a minute. Take a peak & marvel at the innovative way cultural movement is portrayed. Northeastern University researchers map 2,000 years of cultural migration: [The researchers] tracked the birth and death locations of more than 150,000 intellectuals (culled from several databases, including […]
Tags: culture, mapping, northeastern university
How do you get guerrillas to demobilize? By appealing to their human side
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Jose Miguel’s Wired article ‘How I Tamed Guerrillas with Guerilla Marketing’ speaks for itself, in its quest to turn perspective on its head. The setting? Deep in the Columbian jungle. The problem? Getting Guerrillas to demobilize. The answer? Appealing to the guerrillas human side. In our quest to find new things to say, we became […]
Tags: guerilla marketing, life lenses, perspective
Dr. Seuss meets push pins – “The Best Use of Office Supplies We’ve Ever Seen”
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
Need some quick comic relief with a touch (okay buckets full) of creativity? Check out this short video, about an adventurous girl named Elastika which I found on The Muse & is from Guillaume Blanchet I Filmmaker. Who knew there were so many creative ways to use push pins & elastics?! A GIRL NAMED ELASTIKA […]
Tags: guillaume blanchet, inspiration
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: 6 free resources for Value Innovation via Blue Ocean Strategy
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on Value Innovation (e.g. how to create something valuable and innovative) I learned from reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy. Missed the article? Check it out. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here.) After a whirlwind trip to Vancouver, Washington & New York I’m back in […]
Tags: blue ocean strategy, innovation, renee mauborgne, w chan kim
Dementia Quiz – test yourself with these 4 funny questions
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
Here are 4 questions to test for dementia (with tongue planted firmly in cheek). (Answers appear below.) 1. You are a participant in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? 2. If you overtake the last person, then you are in what place? 3. Very tricky arithmetic! Note: this must […]
Tags: assumptions, humour
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: Value Innovation via Blue Ocean Strategy
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on Value Innovation (e.g. how to create something valuable and innovative) I learned from reading the book Blue Ocean Strategy. Missed the article? Check it out. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here.) I’m writing this from New York City – a great source of inspiration […]
Tags: blue ocean strategy, renee mauborgne, w chan kim
What is the question to this answer? Helen Keller
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
I LOVE this exercise. Talk about a tool to increase creativity, critical thinking & more. It could be used as an exercise to warm up for a workshop – e.g. a workshop on culture could simply be introduced by the word ‘culture’. It could be used as an informal assessment for a core concept, to […]
Tags: creativity, question
The Toilet Of The Future Corrects The Mistake We’re All Making In The Bathroom (via HuffPost)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
Talk about turning a toilet on its head. Take a seat & take a peek. The squatty potty will revolutionize how you think about pooping. And that’s a perspective changing game. (The excerpt below is from the Huffington Post; read the entire article here, including more pictures.) It wasn’t until our random introduction to the […]
Tags: bathroom, huffington post, perspective
Did you connect all 9 dots? In more ways than 1?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Did you catch last week’s post on how to connect all 9 dots in more ways than 1? If not & you want to try it yourself first without seeing the answers below, click on the original post here. I’d seen the exercise many years before & knew it had to do with ‘drawing outside […]
Tags: amani institute, creativity, social innovation safari
Can you connect all 9 dots? In more ways than 1?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Have you seen this exercise? Your task is to connect all 9 dots, without lifting your pen, & in no more than 3 lines. It’s a popular exercise. I’d seen it years before when I saw this time around during the Social Innovation Safari. And that, was precisely my downfall. I knew ‘the solution’ had […]