Tag: choices

A quick lesson in perspective

When I go painting (which I don’t do often enough) I spend ages choosing where I’m going to paint from, and where I’m going to choose as my vantage point.  My first choice is not always the best choice, and I take time to settle. Other people in the painting class stand to sit, nearby

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The dreaded blank flipchart… A better approach to creating new ideas

That awful white piece of paper is terrifying.  No-one has an idea, no-one wants to go first, and if you’re not careful all you’ll do is write up on the board, one hour later, ‘Try (a different course).’

One clear question to see difficult decisions in a fresh light

Chip and Dan Heath tell a story of the computer chip company, Intel.  Back in the 1970s Intel was well-known for making computer memory – at one point they had a near monopoly – but they were being increasingly challenged by high-quality overseas competition. At the same time, a small team inside Intel was working

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