The session’s going well. Comfortably seated on leather seats, your team has efficiently dissected the product, juggled concepts, whisked the financials up and down in a cocktail shaker and set fire to the business plan. You’re off to a good start. As their leader, you summarize the teams’ exciting new ideas. One colleague suggests amusing puns, another submits a carefully handwritten list. This could get tricky. There’s potential for disagreement in the ranks, with lots of sensitive
egos jostling for priority. You don’t want to offend anyone but you also want the right result. You need Tonglen. Continue reading ‘The right word can change the world’
It is the begining of wintertime in the northern hemisphere. What better way to prepare for winter than to get ready for all the viruses that come with it? Today’s case study is about one of Israel’s largest HMO’s (Health Maintenance Organization) and its struggle to reduce the use of antibiotics amongst its virus-stricken patients.
Creative people seem to be able to generate and evaluate ideas on the fly. They often describe a surge of thoughts that are developed and filtered almost as soon as they are generated. This brief process allows them to come up with ideas that are not only original and interesting, but also feasible and realistic. Colleagues, friends, and “innocent bystanders” may look at this with the same admiration that is usually reserved to virtuosic musicians, circus acrobats and masters of martial arts.
