It can be helpful to use analogies to inspire new ideas. I have leveraged a brainstorming tool for years called the Magic Tool Box. In this exercise one uses a box full of tools as a metaphor for solving the problem at hand. The objective is to spur new thinking. I leveraged this brainstorming exerciseContinue reading “A Creative Method For Developing Innovative Solutions: Magic Tool Box”
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How to Renew Your Organization
Whipping down the streets of Washington D.C. in a taxi, I was dreading my arrival at a recent business acquisition. I mistakenly believed that my organizational design role was to break the hearts of these leaders. Twenty years earlier, they had founded a company in their garage and now they had made it big, havingContinue reading “How to Renew Your Organization”