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Slashing K12 Budget, Getting Real is a Bitch
Many people asked me what I thought about State Legistlator approving a nearly $140 million cut in soft capital budget for K-12 education. I never like to see education getting it’s budget cut. However, it’s time to get real. Getting [...]
Sunday Review: Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques by Michael Michalko
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up or a [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged brainstorm, creative ideas, creative leadership, creative problem solving, creative techniques, creative thinking, creative thinking activities, creative thinking exercises, Creativity, creativity activities, creativity education, idea generation, ideas for business, increase creativity, innovation, problem solving techniques, reading, teaching creativity, thinkertoys
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Incentives Kill Creativity
The other day I had jotted down about wanting to talk about incentives killing creativity, because something someone said pissed me off. I put it in my GTD list and forgot about it. I came back today to [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity
Tagged Creativity, incentives, performance, Productivity
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Splitting a Problem Into Pieces Then Reassembling It
Another “ThinkerToys” exercise, by Michael Michalko. It’s been a while, but finding time to force the brain to think is hard to do. During the week I have attended several events and heard lots of people talking about community. [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Productivity
Tagged brainstorming, Community, Creativity, crowd sourcing, thinkertoys
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Metro Phoenix: Where Awesome Happens
The other night I was sitting at work finishing up some things and the Phoenix Rails Meeting was just starting. After that meeting, we had a great discussion on MacRuby and some of what was in the future for that [...]
Posted in Community, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, Creativity, east valley, Gangplank, gilbert, Integrum, liberty market, phoenix
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Clean Up Your Own Yard, Before Cleaning Up The Neighborhood
I stumbled up on “Can Phoenix Make a ‘Creative Class’ appeal” and found it reassuring that others in the area are talking about the current state of the economy in Metro Phoenix in ways other than “doom and gloom”. I [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, Creativity, economic development, motivation, phoenix, theory
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Break Your Problems Into Pieces and Then Reassemble!
Another “ThinkerToys” exercise, by Michael Michalko. Im not meeting my goal of one per day, but hey one per week is better than none. I have been thinking a lot about education and after watching kids at Gangplank Jr. this [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Personal
Tagged Creativity, Personal, Startups, thinkertoys
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Challenge Conventional Assumptions
I have been reading “ThinkerToys” by Michael Michalko. I am going to try to do one Thinkertoy exercise per day (or at least a few per week). The goal is to help get my brain to be in a creative [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Personal, Startups
Tagged Creativity, discipline, Education, self improvement, thinkertoys, thinking, thinking outside box
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Kissing Ass Doesn’t Win You Influence. Challenging Thoughts and Ideas Does.
I read Tyler Hurst’s “You can not circle jerk your way to success” and it struck a chord with some thoughts I had been having, but never explored because writing is such a horrible medium for me. I think that [...]
