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

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