Podcast: Best Time To Innovate and Proactive Ways To Find Ideas

philmckinney | July 3, 2006

Podcast

Dateline:  Atlanta, GA

Segment 1: Best Time To Innovate

  • Use a log to track and find your most creative hours
  • If you are a Morning Person – 6:00AM to 8:00AM
  • Of you are a Night Owl – 10:00AM to noon 

Segment 2: Proactive Ways To Find Ideas 

  • Have regular sessions
  • Use the dates as a driver for idea generation
  • Each person presents under some constraint (time, # of slides, etc.)
  • Clear understanding of the follow-up 

Segment 3: Killer Question Of The Week

Segment 4: Closing Thoughts

"Don’t think.  Thinking is the enemy of creativity.  It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy.  You can’t try to do things.  You simply must do things."

Ray Bradbury

 

Link to July 3rd podcast 

 

Update (7/4/06); 

The link to the example mentioned in the podcast of an external proactive event is Pechakucha  

 

Tags: constraint, creative hours, idea generation, innovate, Killer Questions, morning person, night owl, proactive, ray bradbury, slides

  • http://www.betterproof.com seth Taylor

    how do you spell “tekacatcha”? The forum where designers exhibit their work? Japanese for peachy keen? I’m looking for a link I can put in the enhanced podcast.

  • http://www.killerinnovations.com Phil McKinney

    The correct spelling is: Pechakucha.
    And the link is: http://www.pechakucha-sf.com/