Half Baked Ideas are the Ingredients to Success

When I first started Roundpeg, I wanted to focus much of my efforts on teaching managers how to improve their results with a bit of creative thinking.  One of my favorite techniques was kicking off serious brainstorm sessions with something very silly. The purpose? To get people talking, feeling comfortable sharing ideas and taking risks.  We used this type of technique as a kick off to the activities at StartUp Weekend. Before we started the serious pitches and product concepts we held what is known as the “Half Baked Pitch Session” The idea is simple, each team was given two...

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Something very, very bad happened today. I got writer’s block. For someone who earns her living, and genuinely enjoys the process of writing, this is a bad thing. For me, it isn’t necessarily a total lack of ideas, but a lack of good ideas. I saw a thousand roads before me, all leading absolutely nowhere. For a while, I sat and fumed at my computer. I did some research, thinking it might help unclog my brain. It didn’t. Finally I got desperate enough to Google “how to beat writer’s block.” I came across this excellent page of suggestions, and slowly but...

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