Think outside the box. Where are your boundaries?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This image, from Mike Rilstone’s facebook page, is a great, visual reminder of the unwitting chains that can bind our thinking. Of the assumptions we can unknowingly make. Of perspectives that can blind instead of illuminate. What assumptions are you making that are muddying the waters, preventing a clearer picture? What boundaries are binding your […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity, perspective
The biggest threat to your creativity (a la Danielle LaPorte)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
I love this post from my good friend Danielle LaPorte. So much that I’ve reposted it below. It’s a great example of how your perspective can be refreshed, enhanced & rebooted through knowing & telling your own story. The biggest threat to your creativity… … is the fear that it’s already been done, said, created. […]
Tags: creativity, danielle laporte, innovation
Was his (now mine) a la Dave Ulrich
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This picture, from Dave Ulrich’s excellent presentation ‘Leadership and Human Resources: Trends for the future’ at the 2012 Regional Leadership and HR Convention, Institute of Human Resource Management, Nairobi in May 2012, besides making you wince if you’re the one who lost your car, is a great statement of perspective. What do you see? A […]
Tags: creativity, dave ulrich, perspective
Making music, together, on a swing. Montreal style.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Teambuilding
Montreal is cool. Way cool with these interactive, music making, cooperative swing sets. Love the lights at night. Lovely example of creativity, of music in motion, of exercise, of cooperative community spirit & playfulness all wrapped into one. 21 Balançoires (21 Swings) from Daily Tous Les Jours on Vimeo.
Tags: creativity, montreal, music, swings, Teambuilding
Fishbowl toilets- now that’s creative
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
If these fishbowl toilets aren’t an attention grabber I don’t know what is. There are a variety of ways to see these tanks, from an environmental lens to a sociological one: Designed for Chinese families where space is at a premium, they’re marketed as a way to save space They use less water (the toilets […]
Tags: creativity, environmental, sociological
Out of the mouths of babes … come an entirely different perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
We have chains around our brains. These chains limit our thinking. They box us in, hold us down, reign us in. The chains often come in the form of assumptions. Assumptions we make without even knowing it. Assumptions kill creativity. Assumptions keeps us in our own dogged perspective, our own worldview. How to bust out? […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity
The magic of washing machines- put in dirty clothes & out comes books says Hans Rosling
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Ovi Gherman “I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing machine for the very first time in her life. That was a great day for my mother. My mother and father had been saving money for years to be able to buy that […]
Tags: creativity, hans rosling, ted talk
‘What makes you weird?’ asks Seth Godin
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Seth Godin wrote the following post called Destabilizing the bullying power structure. Love it. Wanted to share it with you. Come take a turn & celebrate yours & others’ weirdness & take a pass at bullying in the meantime. Bullies aren’t welcome. For every bully, there are a dozen or a hundred workers/kids/individuals that would […]
Tags: bullying, creativity, seth godin, weirdness
Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of December. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development […]
Tags: access and inclusion, Christmas, compliance, confict, creativity, critical thought, diversity, gifts, holidays, hubspot, humour, inclusion, mike volpe, motivation, perspective, social media strategies summit, truth theory
What does school really teach children?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Social Responsibility, Training & development
After a long, challenging year where one of my kids wasn’t invited back from one school year to the next (an almost straight A student & class president) I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about formal education. Some schools teach the above. So do some trainers. Authority, compliance & repetition rules. My kids have […]
Tags: access and inclusion, compliance, creativity, critical thought, truth theory