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Tag Archives: creativity
The Aesthetics Of Order
Interesting and elegant conceptual photography from Ursus Wehrli: This video shows how one of the photos sets was made. Watch as the artist organizes a group of sunbathers, and all their gear, into well-ordered groups. Any lessons here? Organizing takes … Continue reading
Posted in GTD, Lean and Six Sigma
Tagged 5S, creativity, over-processing, Sort, Ursus Wehrli
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Psychological Techniques For Boosting Creativity
Looking for ways to increase creativity, methods grounded in actual research? Take a look at this two part series on psychological techniques to boost creativity. One of my favorites: People often jump to answers too quickly before they’ve really thought about the … Continue reading
How A Burglar Changed Gravity
The New York Times has an interesting article about a new approach to understanding gravity led by physicist Erik Verlinde. Rather than treating gravity as a separate fundamental force, it can be seen as a consequence of the laws of … Continue reading
Turn Failures Into Breakthroughs
Is that unexpected result a stupid mistake, or an expression of the truth? Don’t resist anomalous information because it might lead to an epiphany. Jonah Lehrer has the the following advice: Check Your Assumptions: Ask yourself why this result feels … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond Categorization
Tagged Covey, creativity, epiphany, failure, paradigms
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Is Legal Project Management Going Mainstream?
Jordon Furlong charts recent press on legal project management and thinks it’s about to burst on center stage. He writes: The day of the haphazard lawyer, who pursues a solution by intuition, experience and the loosest possible timetable, is drawing … Continue reading
Posted in Good Lawyering, Lean and Six Sigma
Tagged creativity, process, project management, standardized work
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Race to Nowhere: How Are Tomorrow’s Lawyers Being Educated?
Several weeks ago, I saw Race to Nowhere, a film screening to small audiences in the San Francisco Bay area. This movie documents the incredible demands we place on elementary and high school children. Many of these kids spend over … Continue reading
Free Your Mind (and the rest will follow)
David Allen recently wrote (no link available): I’m lazy and I don’t want to think about anything more than it deserves. So my quest became to find the best and most efficient ways to think about things as little as … Continue reading
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Tagged checklists, creativity, mental energy, standardized work
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Creativity and Failure
In the last several weeks, I encountered several instances of the same theme: Creativity Requires Failure. In a recent lecture, legal writing consultant Gary Kinder argued that creative writing is only possible when you set aside your left brain’s logical … Continue reading
