Nicholas Bate

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Noise Kills Creativty

from clientk

The Greeks, Telos and

Ryan Holiday.

On Creativity

with clientk.

Creativity and Kids...

...here.

7 Strategies to Come up With a Fresh Idea:

1. Walk, especially a different route;
2. Scribble: pencil on paper;
3. Talk, especially to someone who is outside the main topic;
4. Read something at random to spark the synapses;
5. Summarise the challenge, again, in just 100 words;
6. Imagine you had no budget, twice the budget, the competitor's budget;
7. Give a deadline: 5 great ideas in 25 minutes.

But above all; break the pattern of staring at your screen, vaguely 'batting' e-mail and hoping for inspiration.Or sitting in yet another PowerPoint heavy meeting with little to consider except curling BLT sandwiches. Screens and e-mail are dulling not enlivening. Poorly run meetings are trance-inducing. Break the pattern.

Brand new manifestos at

changethis.com to stimulate your thinking

The Six Facets of Decision Making

with top blogger, astute commentator and cool thinker Michael Wade.

How to Focus 6

1. Clear mind-1. Write down and 'forget' the stuff you don't want to consider at the moment. Put it aside for later.
2. Clear mind-2. Walk to gain perspective and oxygen. Sip water.
3. Clear desk. Have at least your main working area free of too many physical distractions.
4. Clear process. Request/insist on some interrupt-free time. From people, from mail, from phone.
5. Clear issue. On what do you want to focus? Define it.
6. Clear action. Get to work.

For goodness sake, think!

and do it with the best: Michael Wade.