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How to Respond To Employee’s Wacky Ideas (Tool & Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

When you respond to ideas using gratitude, information, and an invitation, you teach critical thinking and problem solving, promote psychological safety and improve the chances of a better idea in the future. You may also enjoy this feature (and interview with Karin Hurt) in CIO Magazine, 5 Myths of IT Culture Change (on pages 23-27).

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An Interview with John T. Unger – Artist and Impossibility Remediation Specialist

Lateral Action

I find that each new medium, motif or material sharpens both my critical thinking and my physical skills so that my work improves across the board with each new project. Instead, I put that energy into twitter, my blog, interviews, responding to queries for articles in newspapers and magazines.

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Attention Management (Not Time Management) is the Key to Productivity with Author Maura Thomas

Crestcom

Our job outputs are things like relationships and thinking and critical thinking and analysis and ideas and connections, right? She’s a TEDx speaker and founder of Regain Your Time. She’s the author of six books, including the one that we’re going to talk about today. We are people whose job outputs are brain functions, right?

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Can You Tell a Masterpiece from a Fake?

Lateral Action

A noted poet himself, he edited the magazine Angry Penguins , which championed avant-garde modernist poetry. Gifted and charismatic, Harris enjoyed provoking Australia's conservative poetry establishment by praising and publishing surrealist poems in his magazine. I have mixed feelings about the Ern Malley affair.

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22 Unique Office Break Room Ideas And Activities To Unleash Your Teams' Creativity In 2023

Vantage Circle

Here's all you need for this: A bunch of old magazines A few pairs of scissors A big artboard or chart paper Every color they choose to use can hint at different feelings and emotions. Plus, reading can enhance your employee's creativity, critical thinking, and communication skills.

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Webinar on Friday, Wedding on Saturday | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Posted by Sara on April 15, 2010 at 8:54 am | permalink | Reply I think the "shark" people are control freaks who think life should go a certain way (including yours) and I hope they deal with their issues outside of this forum, they will be much happier for it. Cute boots! I like the first Boots. Looks nicer to me.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

I know you've done a lot of research into positive psychology, but a search of your blog revealed no reference to the work of psychologist Barbara Fredrickson, who has a book out right now and who was recently interviewed in a magazine called The Sun (full disclosure: my wife conducted the interview).

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