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An On-Line Notebook of Creativity Techniques.
Archive for September, 2004
Free creative thinking tools on the Web
Free creative thinking tools on the Web - from InnovationTools
Creative thinking and problem-solving tools don’t have to cost a lot of money. In fact, there are a surprising number of free brainstorming tools available on the Web that can help you generate breakthrough ideas today.
from InnovationTools
On happiness and thinking
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.”
Dale Carnegie
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
Levels of Thinking
“The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at
when we created them”
Albert Einstein
On victories
“Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.”
Stephen R. Covey
Author & Consultant
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: Gurteen Knowledge Quote
What We Saw When We Looked Through Their Eyes
Un grupo de investigadores han seguido el movimiento de los ojos de personas que leen páginas web de noticias con cámaras controladas por software para determinar el patrón de atención.
El proyecto denominado Eyetrack III, ha sacado interesantes conclusiones sobre los patrones de atención que seguimos en forma inconsciente para “scanear” una pagina.
On happiness
“The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but liking what one has to do.”
James Barrie
Source : The Gurteen Knowledge Website
La vida es un tallarín
Y si, algunas cosas salen bien, otras salen mal, en fin…, la vida es un tallarín.
Valentin - El personaje de la pelicula de Alejandro Agresti
Ten Rules for Project Managers
Reforming Project Management Theory and Practice
Ten Rules for Project Managers by By Hal Macomber, Project Reformer.
Source: Reforming Project Management Theory and Practice
Delivering Knowledge as software
“Software development is a cooperative “game” in creating and deploying “knowledge” and various people-oriented practices help make that work”
Thinking about Software Development as a process to deliver Knowledge!
Source: Managing Product Development
Delivering results and Increasing Capacity
As managers we have two responsibilities: deliver results and increase capacity. The way you do that is by managing your actions and deliverables and by helping your staff increase their value to you. You can only do that if you take control of your information flow and make good decisions.
Remember, the more strategic your decisions, the more valuable they are to the organization.
Source: Managing Product Development
Fostering and facilitating organisational collaboration
Collaborationcentre: fostering and facilitating organisational collaboration
Collaboration means two or more parties working together as equals to bring into being something new, tangible or intangible, that creates more value - more quickly, more effectively and for more stakeholders - than they would otherwise create.
Collaborationcentre enables effective collaboration by boosting the power of people with productive meetings and usable technology
Source: Collaborationcentre
The Leader’s Role In Innovation
Rattle The Cage���The Leader’s Role In Innovation…
Every leader has to wrestle with the demand to innovate. Without innovation, an organization or community will struggle to remain relevant in today’s turbulent business and social environments.
Source: Rattle The Cage
Conversations
“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.”
Margaret Millar
Sabemos decir NO?
No es No.
Y hay una sola manera de decirlo: NO. Sin admiración, ni interrogantes, ni puntos suspensivos.
NO, se dice de una sola manera. Es corto, rápido, monocorde, sobrio y escueto: NO. Se lo dice una sola vez.Un NO que necesita de una larga caminata o una reflexión en el jardín, no es NO.
No tiene la brevedad de un segundo.Es un NO para el otro porque ya lo fue para uno mismo.NO es NO, aquí y muy lejos de aquí. NO, no deja las puertas abiertas, ni entrampa con esperanzas, ni puede dejar de se NO, aunque el otro y el mundo se pongan patas para arriba.
NO, es el ultimo acto de dignidad; es el fin de un libro sin mas capítulos, ni segundas partes.
NO, no se dice por carta, ni se dice con silencios, ni en voz baja, ni gritando, ni con la cabeza gacha, ni mirando hacia otro lado, ni con pena y menos aún con satisfacción.NO es NO, porque NO. Cuando el NO es NO, se mirará a los ojos y el NO se descolgara naturalmente de los labios; la voz no será trémula, ni vacilante, ni agresiva, pero tampoco dejara duda alguna. Ese NO, no es un negación del pasado, es una corrección del futuro.
Y solo quien sabe decir NO, puede decir SI realmente.
A proposito de los limites, y como una forma de llamar a la reflexión sobre la importancia de que nuestros hijos entiendan el NO, la maestra de uno de mis hijos me entrego este texto.