Archive for the 'Creating the climate' Category

Leave them alone!
Sunday, February 18th, 2007

I just returned after completing a two-day workshop for a client. Here are a few points from the closing comments from my client and some of the participants.
Client 1: I thought that my product category is so a boring, people will have nothing to say. I am amazed at what they have done.
Client 2: Frankly [...]

Creative climate – scenario 2
Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Imagine the same meeting where all of us are full of ideas for the future of our business.
Imagine again that I venture to give an idea. This time one of the ‘Young-Turks’ jumps in with his comments.
He says “I was watching C. K. Prahlad on CNBC the other day. He made a brilliant presentation on [...]

Creative Climate
Saturday, January 20th, 2007

This is my favorite story on creating a creative climate.
Imagine I am working in a company for a long time and I am a very senior person. Our company has been very successful. However, we have been under a lot of pressure in recent times. Our customers are more demanding. We have been losing good [...]

Idea stoppers
Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Prasna had left me with a question: What stops people from coming out with ideas?
True to his style, Prasna surprised me again. He was on the phone last night.
“I read your last post in your blog.”
“What did you think?”
“Why are you not on the subject? Instead, you are talking about some ideas that you liked. [...]