Archives: Personal Innovation
The ultimate self-help guide! Learn how to improve yourself through creativity.
Imaginativefulness
Imaginativefulness is a state of heightened imagination in which your mind allows thoughts, memories and ideas to play with each other freely.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Creatura - the Creativity Fairy
When innovative ideas fail you, call upon Creatura - the creativity fairy. Through playfulness, mischief and energy, she'll inspire you.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Want to Be Creative? Step Back into Your Comfort Zone
Great authors, artists and composers throughout history have done most of their work inside their comfort zones.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Innovate Yourself!
Personal innovation is the act of making a change in your life with the aim of making your world a better one.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Dare to Be Anticonventional
We live and work in cultures that encourage conventional behaviour, appearance and thinking. For the most part, that is fine and dandy. But when you want to be creative, you need to be less conventional.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Imaginativefulness
Surely, you have heard about mindfulness. Now learn about imaginativefulness, a creative way of looking at the world around you.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Living Overseas Boosts Creativity
If you want a quick and easy way to boost creativity, go away! Go live abroad, to be precise
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Sexy Goals
As an individual, if you want to achieve great things in life, ordinary goals are not enough. You need sexy goals.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Sell Your Idea Through Fear
Rather than sell your idea on its benefits, sell it on the consequences of doing nothing.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Solving Personal Problems with Anticonventional Thinking
Anticonventional thinking is not just for business problems. You can also apply it to personal problems as this article demonstrates
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
You Are the Problem
If you are part of the problem, you have a responsibility to solve the problem
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
The Creative Pursuit of Laziness
The people who seem the laziest in your office are probably the most creative. Learn from them.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
The Importance of Vacations
Physical and mental vacations are critical to your well being, productivity and creativity
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Asking Favours -- and Getting Them
If you want someone to do something for you, here is an easy, non-manipulative trick.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
My Message to Teenage Girls
I recently read a blog post of a message to teenage girls. It was so disappointing, it made me want to cry! So, I wrote my own message. Here it is.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Inspiring Creativity in Others
If you want to push others – such as colleagues, team members, children, students, sweethearts or friends – to be more creative, there are a few simple things you can do.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Five More Suggestions for Raising Creative Kids
If you are keen on creativity, you are doubtless even keener to raise creative children! Here are five more steps on how to do it!
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Relationship Goals
Long term shared goals keep a relationship alive. If you lack goals, a little creativity can help you identify them.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Five Suggestions for Raising Creative Kids
If you are keen on creativity and innovation, you surely want your children to be creative as well. If so, the sooner you act, the better.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
The Value of DIY Parents and Creative Children
Clayton Christensen claims that there seems to be one factor highly creative people have in common: their parents were big on DIY
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Go On, Let Your Kids Make Mistakes
Help your kids learn better and learn to think creatively by encouraging them to make mistakes!
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
What's Your Value Proposition?
What is your value proposition? How do you create value for the people who give you money, whether they be your customers, your employers or your victims.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
You Cannot Radically Change Someone's Opinion
As opinions in religion, politics and more are becoming increasingly polarised, many people think a simple argument can radically change another person's opinion. The truth is: that will never happen. Read why this is true.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Designer Goals 1: Introduction
Designer goals is a method you can use to define your unique goals and develop a personal and creative step-by-step plan for achieving those goals.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Your Five Year Plan
The ultimate self-help action: draw up your own five year plan and achieve your dreams. Learn how creative thinking can help you better understand your goals and devise creative methods for accomplishing them.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Your Elevator Pitch
Use creative thinking in order to devise a clever and original elevator pitch.
by Jeffrey Baumgartner
Recent Articles
Leading Diverse Teams
Filed under: Business Innovation
Diverse teams are more innovative and smarter than homogeneous ones. But, they are also harder to manager. Here are some tips. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Questions you should ask when an innovative project fails
Filed under: Business Innovation
You can learn a lot from the failure of an innovative project, but you need to ask the right questions. Here are those questions. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Unmarketing the Competition
Filed under: Business Innovation
A look at creative, but unethical dirty trick marketing campaigns designed to damage the competition By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Imaginativefulness and the Fisherman
Filed under: Creativity
What does a fisherman wearing a cycling helmet have to do with imaginativefulness? Quite a lot, it seems. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Actually, Criticising Ideas Is Good for Creativity
Filed under: Creativity
People have long assumed criticising ideas in a brainstorm inhibits creativity. Research and experience shows that is wrong By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Imaginativefulness
Filed under: Creativity
Imaginativefulness is a state of heightened imagination in which your mind allows thoughts, memories and ideas to play with each other freely. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Why and How to Exploit Alternative Uses for Your Products
Filed under: Business Innovation
Discovering new ways customers use, misuse and could use your products can inspire innovation. Jeffrey Baumgartner explains. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
The Cost of Not Innovating
Filed under: Business Innovation
If your company fails to innovate, you pay a steep price in terms of loss of leadershop, tight margins, missed opportunities and more. By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
Don't Trust the Status Quo
Filed under: Creativity
Jeffrey Baumgartner has never trusted the status quo. He explains why this is so and why you should also not trust the status quo By Jeffrey Baumgartner -- Read the article...
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