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Interviews, Networking, blogging, career growth, job search, outplacement Entries from September 20, 2009 - September 26, 2009
Executives Should Think Like Teenagers to Drive their Careers or Lead Organizations
By Don Straits , Friday, September 25, 2009 at 10:35PM
Don Straits , Friday, September 25, 2009 at 10:35PM When I was a college professor, I used to conduct creativity exercises with students, focus groups, and corporate leadership teams. The exercise was simple. I held up a paper click to the group. I asked the participants to write down as many uses for the paperclip that they could possibly think of in a period of two minutes. Two rules: 1. quantity was more important then quality and 2. don’t judge the merit of your idea.