RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Some key points from the book I think you might appreciate include how original work happens in the first place, and how as leaders we can establish an environment that encourages originality from all of us. Is it Quality or Quantity? In fact, most of it isn’t. Instead, what those creators are doing is playing a numbers game.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 10, 2018

The same environment will start to spawn the same thoughts. In his interesting book “ A Curious Mind ” producer Brian Grazer credits a lot of his creative impulse to the fact that he is constantly having deliberate “curiosity conversations” with people from radically different walks of life. Go somewhere new. What’s the opposite?

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RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a friend of mine in the finance industry pointed out, successful teamwork under these conditions is all about finding creative ways to shrink the distance between you and the team. Leaders find creative ways to shink the distance between team members. The best way to learn about someone is to see them in their environment.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2018

As Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic writes for Harvard Business Review , you have to “create the kinds of secure and supportive environments where creativity and productivity thrive.” People look to their leadership for predictability and stability. ” What’s the TBA (Total Brains Applied)?

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 25, 2017

The friction of ideas and concepts rubbing against each other can produce a spark of creativity that you can’t get in a consensus environment. It’s not the time to get comfortable. It’s the time to seek discomfort. If everyone is thinking alike, then someone is not thinking. Patton Click To Tweet.

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