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- Nov 07, 2020
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
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- Nov 07, 2020