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Importance of Asking the RIGHT Questions

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of the wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question” ~ Peter Drucker How much time are you spending in exploring your real challenge, problem or opportunity? How often do you jump from an initial problem to a brainstorming session? Or, how often do you jump from the initial challenge to a solution? ...

Move Beyond the Past to Enhance Creative Thinking

“We can’t live in the past. If we are stuck in the past, I believe we destroy our creativity, we destroy our imagination to do things differently, and we destroy our own inner peace of mind.” – Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, cofounder of Peace People, Nobel Peace Prize winner in Spirituality & Health, March-April 2009, p. 64   How often do you hear in meetings: “We...

“The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.” ~ Charles M. Schwab

“If there are things you don’t like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.” ~ Dave Thomas

“If you want to stand out, don’t be different; be outstanding.” ~ Meredith West

“Change yourself and your work will seem different.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” ~ M. Scott Peck

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” ~ Cecil Beaton

“Appearance can be a defining characteristic for us all but it’s the ability to think differently that really makes a difference.” ~ Kenneth Cole

Think Different ~ Apple Computer Ad

“Here’s to the crazy ones… The ones who see things differently… They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy… Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”