Tactical tips for
Business
Rob Wendes
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Would you
work with Picasso?
Whilst
visiting America, Pablo Picasso was approached by an admirer in a
restaurant.She poured her
admiration over him, expressing how excited she was to see the great
artist and how she was bowled over by his work. Since Pablo did not act
dismissively she was encouraged to press further. Would the great
artist draw her sketch? Whether it was a matter of ridding himself of
an irritation, he did, however take pen and paper and sketch the
pastries being carried by a passing waiter. “That will be
$10000” he smiled as he handed her the sketch.
Taken
aback, she replied “isn’t
that a lot of money for just 5 minutes work?” “No
Madame” said Pablo, “the sketch may have taken 5
minutes but the learning took me 50
years”.
Down to the last
pencil.
I can almost feel the anxiety as you sit there frustrated for ideas.
I’ve been there, and it hurts. Sometimes you just stare out
of
the window and you know that the brain isn’t going to come
out to
play today. You sharpen your pencil again and again, until there is
only a little stub left, as if will stimulate you to generate ideas.
Should you take a day off, give the brain time to relax, or just beat
it up a little until it starts to obey? Just perhaps the Tactips
“The Innovation Project” will help to kick start it
in the
way you think, and spark new ideas to turbo you or your business.
Brains are like
puppy dogs.
Puppies
have boundless energy. They
bounce around expending endless energy until it is all spent, and then
they flop. Your brain is pretty much the same. At times it races away
with ideas that sometimes lead you everywhere, but leave you nowhere.
Frustrated, you try to put together a plan, but your brain refuses to
work. It’s tired; it’s bored and needs some
excitement to start it going again.
Training makes the job seem easy.
As
that bounding, exuberant ball of energy starts to grow up,
you just have to train it, and that goes for the puppy dog as well.
Tactips has “The
Innovation
Project” that makes
your mind
think in different ways, to help channel your thoughts and ideas
towards the challenge you are facing. Brains often have the answer, but
they need a little help to get them going.
Multiple brains are like
multiple puppies.
A
litter of puppies is mayhem.
Not just one ball of boundless energy, but a mass of energy bouncing
over, into and under each other, in no particular order or pattern.
That’s the way your team uses its collective brain, each with
its own agenda, likes dislikes and biases. Sometimes they get in the
way of each other creating a log-jam which is difficult to shift. I
have developed “The
Innovation
Project” for just
that situation. Turn those puppies into a well trained organized group,
and stimulate and direct their cerebral energy in one direction.
New puppies start new games.
Just
watch those puppies go when you introduce a neighbour into the pack
They play new games, and change the way they react to each other. Each
one wants to be top puppy, and they will do anything to get the support
of the others to do it. Just sometimes you need someone from outside,
someone like Picasso, who has challenges you to think radically, right
out of the box and over to the other side of the room. You might feel
uncomfortable, but at least you can decide how far outside of your
comfort zone you want to go!
Puppies aren’t for everyone.
Maybe
you are not a dog lover, but everyone needs kick their brain
into action at some point. If you know you need change, and are
committed to make it happen then you have jumped over the first hurdle.
If you are willing to learn from someone who has decades of experience
and believe that innovation is important to you at this moment, then
“the Innovation Project” should be on your list of
must haves.
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