How can you generate an idea if you do not know what an idea is? A simple definition brings clarity into words like ideas, creativity and innovation.

“Challenging Assumptions” has become a cliche. Very few know how to do it well. Fewer know how to teach the technique as well as Edward De Bono.

Innovation is great when it works. However, there are several hidden costs on the way to successful innovation. Organisations must be smarter in managing these money sucking practices that inhibit innovation and demotivate people

Let me tell you a story first. I use this story often in my Creative Blockbusting© workshops. (http://www.ideasrs.com/workshops/creative-block-busting/) I have a friend Natarajan (Nat to his friends) who is also a Tambrahm (Tamilian Brahmin) like me. He is a senior manager in one of the Indian Multi-Nationals. He and his family are vegetarians. Nat has [...]

As we went through the coffee table book we noticed that  a few common things emerged. For example, all the seven maestros displayed an extra-ordinary attitude. It was a willingness to change one-self to achieve a goal. Some of them demonstrated a unique knack to understand the pulse of their audience and shape their concerts [...]

This was my sms to T M Krishna, the famous carnatic music exponent and one of the authors of the coffee table book “Voices Within”. I got a classic Krishna reply “Sure. Why not?” I called Krishna the next day and told him about what I had in mind. A Business Creativity Workshop based on [...]

Some time last year T M Krishna, a leading Carnatic Musician wrote to me about a coffee table book he was working on, along with Bombay Jayashri another leading light from the field. I read it with interest but some how forgot about it later. In January this year Krishna wrote to say that the [...]