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Opt In Funding

Posted on November 20, 2009 //

School funding is a big problem in Ohio. For as long as I can remember there has been a system that relied on the passage of levies district by district every year or two. Those districts that regularly pass levies have money, and those that don’t pass levies struggle. One problem with this system is […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, LIFE // Tagged: idea, ideas, levies, Ohio, school funding, school levy

odd man out

Posted on November 6, 2009 //

Looking for a fun exercise to get your creative juices flowing. Try Edward De Bono‘s odd man out exercise. It is simple, fun, and as my friend Artie Isaac would say, it is a great way to “exercise your creative pet.” Start by going to a random word generator site like this one. Take the […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, FUN // Tagged: Artie Isaac, Create, Creative, creative exercise, Creativity, creativity game, Edward De Bono, FUN, game, idea, ideas, lateral thinking, odd man out

Orville Wright Did Not Have A Pilot’s License

Posted on July 7, 2009 //

I recently read Gordon MacKenzie’s Orbiting The Giant Hairball, an excellent book about cultivating personal creativity – particularly how to do so in the workplace. It is a brilliant book, chronicling the author’s experiences as an employee at Hallmark. The book is filled with doodles, sketches, stories, and anecdotes chronicling ways in which Gordon managed to […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, LIFE // Tagged: Aviation, Belief, Creativity, Dayton, Dayton Ohio, Flight, Gordon MacKenzie, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, invention, Ohio, Orbiting the Giant Hairball, Orville Wright, Passion, Persistence, Wilbur Wright, Wright Brothers

The Amazing Pizza Box Video?

Posted on June 22, 2009 //

Yes, I said "The Amazing Pizza Box Video." it is not a typo. Need proof that the opportunity to innovate is all around us? Check out this 45 second video from Eco Incorporated, a company who is "saving the environment one pizza box at a time." This is such an awesome concept for so many […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, FUN // Tagged: Eco Incorporated, environment, FUN, idea, Innovation, Pizza, Pizza Box, video, YouTube

User Generated Health Care

Posted on May 8, 2009 //

I have an idea that would help improve the health care system. This idea would dramatically speed the process of diagnosis, reduce unnecessary testing, more quickly identify effective courses of treatment and radically reduce the costs associated with the entirety of it all. I call it User Generated Health Care. The idea is simple […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, TECHNOLOGY // Tagged: CIncinnati Innovates, CincinnatiInnovates, Data, Dayton, Diagnosis, Family, health, Health Care, Healthcare, idea, Intelligence, Medicine, Mobile Technology, TECHNOLOGY, User Generated Healthcare

Leaders Make Change

Posted on May 7, 2009 //

I started running again. (Please don’t inform me of the over / under on how many days until I quit.) Anyhow, I decided to combine my love for books with my need to exercise in an effort to make the most of each run. I have loaded up some audio books onto my ipod, and […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, LIFE // Tagged: Exercise, idea, Leadership, Management, MARKETING, Running, Seth Godin

Surprisingly Simple Solution for Storing Surprises

Posted on April 22, 2009 //

Recently I wrote a post about a simple technique for enhancing your creativity that I learned from reading the book Creativity by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In a nutshell 1. Be surprised by something every day, 2. Surprise someone everyday, 3. Write both down and chronicle them over time. I thought it might be wise to […]

Filed Under: TECHNOLOGY // Tagged: Creative, Creativity, Csikszentmihalyi, Dayton, Dayton Marketing, Flow, Gmail, Gmail Labs, Google, Google Docs, idea, ideation, MARKETING, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, surprise

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

Posted on April 21, 2009 //

Would you like to be more creative? Here is a simple 3 step technique for getting your creative juices flowing from the man who wrote the book on Creativity, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Try to be surprised by something everyday. Try to surprise someone every day. Write down what surprised you and how you surprised others. These […]

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What’s the big idea?

Posted on March 20, 2009 //

Recently some members of the Dayton Marketing Community met up for the 1st (of what will hopefully be many) Big Idea Breakfast – something I thought up a few days prior while writing my morning pages. The concept for the event was as follows: This meeting is part networking part innovation part caffeination part collaboration […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, MARKETING // Tagged: big idea breakfast, Create, Creative, Creativity, Dayton, dayton marketing community, Event, idea, ideas, MARKETING

In One Word

Posted on January 9, 2009 //

On a recent shopping trip to the mall, I was walking past store after store thinking to myself “If I had to use one word to describe (insert name of retail store) what would it be. For some, it was easy to do. For others, not so much. From a marketing standpoint, this was an […]

Filed Under: FEATURED, MARKETING // Tagged: Branding, Concept, Customer, Facebook, Feedback, FUN, idea, LinkedIn, MARKETING, Perception, Positioning, Twitter