Tag: creativity

How To Unleash Your Creativity

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Your true light will always shine to others, if you allow them to see you for who you really are.’

‘When out and about, keep alert and be ready to notice the little things around and the strangers to say hello to.’

‘Go out of your way to speak to someone that brings a sense of comfort, warmth, or trust.’

‘Be open to how your messages come, where they come from, and who or what is delivering them.’

‘Once we stop trying to lock ourselves into just one interests, the magic begins.’

‘Surround yourself with team members that both respect each other and balance each other out.’

‘Learn to appreciate the journey because in the end, that is the only thing that matters.’

‘Have your top want for the day, week, or year to stay top of mind and ready to share with whomever will listen.’

‘Sometimes, an unexpected turn of events leads you to an unhappy place and becomes the trigger for internal reflection. In time, tears turn to joy and suddenly you find your inner star.’

‘An open mind is the perfect receiver of great ideas, so avoid clouding your judgment with thoughts of impossibilities, fear, doubt, and impatience.’

‘If you can do the grunt work, you’re halfway there.’

Source

Nova Lorraine (2021). Unleash Your Supernova: 101 Action Steps to Boost Creativity and Beat Burnout!

‘Competing Against Luck’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Once you understand the customer’s Job to Be Done, it brings into sharp relief the true competition you face to be hired. This provides critical information for how to innovate to make your solution more attractive than any competitor’s.’

‘Seeing your customer through a job lens highlights the real competition you face, which often extends well beyond your traditional rivals.’

‘Closely studying how customers use your products often yields important insights into the jobs, especially if they are using them in unusual and unexpected ways.’

‘Developing a full understanding of the job can be done by assembling a kind of storyboard that describes in rich detail the customer’s circumstances, moments of struggle, imperfect experiences, and corresponding frustrations.’

‘As part of your storyboard, it’s critically important to understand the forces that compel change to a new solution, including the ‘push’ of the unsatisfied job itself and the ‘pull’ of the new solution.’

‘If the forces opposing change are strong, you can often innovate the experiences you provide in a way that mitigate them, for example by creating experiences that minimize the anxiety of moving to something new.’

‘After you’ve fully understood a customer’s job, the next step is to develop a solution that perfectly solves it. And because a job has a richness and complexity to it, your solution must, too. The specific details of the job, and the corresponding details of your solution, are critically important to ensure a successful innovation.’

‘Processes are invisible from a customer’s standpoint– but the results of those processes are not.’

‘When managers are focused on the customer’s Job to Be Done, they not only have a very clear compass heading for their innovation efforts but they also have a vital organizing principles for their internal structure.’

‘How you solve for a customer’s job will inevitably change over time; you need to build in flexibility to your processes, to allow them to continuously adapt and improve the experiences you deliver.’

Source:

Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan (2016). Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice