Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Business Blog
This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here .
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Go Fly a Kite -- Audacious thinking. Saul Griffith: Inventing a super-kite to tap the energy of high-altitude wind
Labels: creativity , TED
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Ignore Everybody -- Based on chapter titles of Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity gapingvoid.com ...Ignore Everybody post on Hugh's blog.
Labels: creativity
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
iPhone Users: Heads Up! : Creativity Tool In Your Pocket -- Roger von Oech, who I've mentioned before here, has brought his Creative Whack Pack to the iPhone as an app (app store link) . This used to be in the form of a set of cards, and works even better as an app, with more room for text related to each "whack". (That said, the card version does lend itself to group whacks. Just deal them out to the group and let them think about the lesson in the context of the problem at hand.Expect the Unexpected and the classic A Whack on the Side of the Head .
Labels: creativity
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Three Good New Cartoons -- From Hugh...Creativity and Structure Flow Without Collaboration
Labels: collaboration , creativity , flow
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