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Cross-pollination
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Ideas and Knowledge
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Facilitate exchange of knowledge and
ideas to inspire innovative solutions and manage creativity,
inventiveness, smartness, and innovation. |
VadiK |
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Managing Creativity
In Your Business Environment
Creative thinking is an intense
social activity. You need a stimulus and information input of
other people's minds to be a great creative thinker...
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An
impromptu setting can help spark
cross-pollination of ideas and
team chemistry. When the Danish
hearing-aid company Oticon
discovered that spontaneous
interactions between employees
located on different floors were
taking place on stairwells, the
firm wisely broadened the stairs
to encourage the
multidisciplinary interchange.
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How to use this information
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"Adapt what is useful, reject
what is useless, and add what is
specifically your own."
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Bruce Lee
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Sleep on this information – your
powerful
superconscious mind will
tell you how to use it when you
wake up
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How to make cross-pollination
an integral part of your
workplace
Intellectual Cross-Pollination:
7 Planting Tips by
IDEO
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Play a Film Director:
break the world down into scenes and become expert at watching
people, especially
enthusiasts, perform even the smallest tasks. Taking on the
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perspective
of a film director and watching events outside your
normal sphere can heighten your
observation skills. |
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Hold an Open House periodically to
spread the best disciplines of your company far and wide. Keep it
casual. Encourage comments and ideas. Combine it with some food to
get people talking. |
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Inspire Advocates:
mental
diversity is very important – you need individuals who
celebrate different viewpoints. They
will make you more conscious of critical constituencies and
considerations in every new
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Hire Outsiders:
fresh blood
invigorates a company and introduces new ideas. Hire a
diverse group of individuals and people just slightly
off
center, and you'll be pleasantly surprised. |
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Change Hats: when you start a
new
project, work up compelling characters to represent some possible
users of your new products or services. Sketch them, give them
names, families and background
stories.
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