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 […]
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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 […]
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The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: 7 stages of innovation
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on the 7 stages of innovation I learned from the Amani Institute’s Social Innovation Safari I participated in. Missed the article? Check it out here. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here.) Are you clear on what you’re passionate about? What you’re burning to resolve […]
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Social Innovation Safari
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
What do you get when you combine an Iraqi, 3 Kenyans, a Canadian & a person from Botswana? A Social Innovation Safari of course. That’s my small group above. From left to right: Elizabeth (Kenyan lawyer), Bestoon (healthy environment consultant from Iraq), moi, Tim (Kenyan IT guy), Peter (Amani coach, from Botswana), & Brizan (social […]
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Welcome New Year! It’s the 5th Annual To Do, To Done, To’odle Compilation
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
Photo Credit: Courtney Dirks via Compfight cc For the past 4 years I’ve asked some darn fine folk from around the world what’s on their to do, to continue doing, to stop doing, to not do, to done, to feel & to to’odle lists. What’s that you say? Here’s what I mean. To do * […]
Tags: amani institute, caleb gichuhi, joanna wedge, marie mainil, niall oconnor, Sarah Elamin Ng'inja, sisi ni amani, to do, tricia hollyer