For a creative boost, take a saunter!

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Is being creative on a regular basis part of your job description? Yes? Sucks to be you. Don't get me wrong. There's no greater joy — to me, anyway — than creating something today that wasn't there yesterday, whether it's a song, a…

Snow at Dave Greer Cabin

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I just returned from my annual writing "sabbatical" at the 180-year-old Dave Greer Cabin — owned by my good friends, Jim and Sheryl Buck — in Pall Mall, Tenn.  (You can rent this cabin.  Click here or go to www.buckslodging.com.)  I'll…

Banish the editor

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At the risk of repeating myself, I'm going to repeat myself:  I write this blog as much for me as for you. I'm really not trying to be flippant.  The fact is, it's often easier to recommend and even teach certain techniques than it…

Creativity tip: Become a question mark again

Blind acceptance is the mortal enemy of creative thought. I see it all the time in my day job.  "Because that's the way we've always done it," may possibly be the most irksome, wrong-headed statement ever uttered in a business environment.…

Add inputs to pump up creativity

In a presentation I put together a couple of years ago entitled "9 to 5 Creativity," I compiled a top 10 list of practices that are "sure-fire" ways to make you — yes, YOU — more creative. What?!  Creative?!  But…

“Serious people have few ideas.” Ramp up the fun.

  Ask yourself this:  How many wildly creative companies have you either visited, read about, or learned about on a TV program that didn't mandate a fun atmosphere? The answer is easy:  None. What are the companies most known…