6. Objectives
• Use your brain to its full potential
WHAT’S IN • Look at things from different angles
• Develop your critical thinking
IT FOR • Increase your innovative capability
YOU? • Release the creative potential in
PARTICIPATING TO THIS products, services, brand,
WORKSHOP WILL ENABLE
YOU TO…. organizational structures
• Enhance your problem solving skills
• Improve the status-quo
HOW IMPORTANT IS WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT?
7. Essential Message
Phil. 4:8
Whatever things are
TRUE….HONEST..JUST..PURE..LOVELY.
.OF GOOD REPORT, any VIRTUE…
any PRAISE….
THINK ON THESE THINGS
8. What is Thinking?
Thinking is a purposeful, organized
cognitive process that we use to make
sense of our world.
9. What is Critical Thinking?
WARNING: THIS MAN IS NOT THINKING CRITICALLY!!
10. Essential Message
Phil. 4:8
Whatever things are
TRUE….HONEST..JUST..PURE..LOVELY.
.OF GOOD REPORT, any VIRTUE…
any PRAISE….
THINK ON THESE THINGS
11. Essential Message
Phil. 4:8
You do what you
repeatedly think on!
You become the things
you repeatedly do
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12.
13. CONTENT OF THE BOX
OUTSIDE IN INSIDE OUT
Trapped inside Tolerance for ambiguity
Mind blockers Mental flexibility
Creative Thinking Producing creative Ideas
Areas for innovation Techniques / Tools / Triggers
Product improvement Brainstorming
Customer service Nyaka : defect analysis
Product diversification Merlin – improvement of product or service
Creative Advertising Eureka – Illogical problem solving
New products / service Brain faxing - Creative problem solving
Efficiency – quality – cost Mind Mapping – rapid idea building
Personal effectiveness Visualization
Creativity Management
14. Thinking Higher – inside/outside the box thinking
A problem-solving style
looking at the given
situation from
24. MY NAME IS YOUR POTENTIAL
POTENTIAL IS ALL THAT I CAN BE, BUT HAVE
NOT YET BECOME. ALL THAT I CAN DO, BUT
HAVE NOT YET DONE.
WAS BORN THE DAY I WAS BORN, BUT I DID
NOT KNOW. RATHER, I ’VE ALWAYS YOUR MY
TWIN BROTHER. HIS NAME IS “MY LIMITATION”,
AND HOW POTENTIAL HATES LIMITATION SO
25. HE SAYS I CANNOT DO ALL THAT POTENTIAL
KNOWS YOU CAN DO. HE SAYS I CANNOT BE
ALL THAT POTENTIAL KNOWS YOU CAN BE.
BUT IF I ONLY PUT THE LIGHT ON POTENTIAL,
I WILL FIND THAT MY LIMITATION IS ONLY
POTENTIALS SHADOW; AND THE BRIGHTER
THE LIGHT I PLACE ON POTENTIAL THE
FASTER MY LIMITATION DISAPPEARS.
26. AND IF I’LL PERMIT POTENTIAL TO INTRODUCE
HIMSELF, MY NAME IS YOUR POTENTIAL; AND WITH
ME IS ALL THE SUCCESS AND GREATNESS YOU’VE
ALWAYS DREAMT OF. MY MISSION IS TO ENSURE
THAT YOU THINK AS YOU OUGHT TO AND BECOME
ALL YOU WERE MEANT TO BE, TO ASSIST YOU DO
ALL THAT YOU WERE CREATED TO DO, SO THAT
YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING IMPACT YOU WERE
DESIGNED TO MAKE.
27. AND IF YOU LET POTENTIAL SHINE
THROUGH,
THE WORLD WILL SOON DISCOVER THE
TRUE YOU
28. So what could
these be?
Potential-Limitation = Performance
Higher Current
Thinking Thinking
State State
31. Abandon yesterday !
Free up resources:
that are committed to maintaining things that no longer contribute to performance
and no longer produce results
Maintaining yesterday:
And if you are committed to maintaining yesterday, then
you are simply not available to create today and
tomorrow
33. TRANSFORMING INTO GREAT LEADERSHIP
–Success in attaining a higher
freeze
thinking status …
–Is in your daily agenda
–Growth in this area is not an automatic
process
–You must have a plan for growth
35. at’s a very interesting wheelbarrow. because the handle is
short, if you got some mud on the wheel, you could reach
ht over and kick it off”
y, that’s great wheelbarrow-you could wheel that right up t
edge of a hole and empty it over the edge
es, and you could put a little trap door in the bottom
d empty it by just pulling on a string”
36. Paradigms…
OLD PARADIGM NEW PARADIGM
OBSERVER PARTICIPANT
NOT INTERESTED INTERESTED
UNHELPFUL HELPFUL
CRITIC SUPPORTER
COMPLEX SIMPLE
JUDGE COACH
DULL SHARP
LAID BACK CURIOUS
PROBLEM SOLUTION
37. What is thinking outside the
box?
Thinking outside of the box is generating
innovative and ingenious ideas and outcomes,
but using what's available inside the box.
53. When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they
found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't
flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took
them one decade and $12 million.
They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down,
underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a
temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
54. You are now faced with same dilemma,
think inside of the box and write down
secretly what you will use to solve this
problem right now NOT in one decade
and with $0 not $12 million.
56. The boom box: Look at the familiar object
provided (boom box), and examine it, study it.
Touch it, operate it (with care). Keep studying it
until you have learned something about
everything it can do. This is what it means to
think inside the box. The box is what you
know.
nside-the-box-thinking
57. The boom box: Look at the familiar object
provided (boom box) again. Consider other
things you know along these lines, what can be
incorporated in future boom box designs that
are absent in this one? This is what it means to
think outside the box, using the box that you
know.
utside-the-box-thinkin
58. Writing Exercise: Pick up a book, close your eyes, open it to a
random page, and stab your finger at the page. Look and see
which word your finger landed on. Now get a paper and pen or
pencil, and come up with 10 ways that word relates to your life.
Obvious things – things you already know
Non-obvious things - very hard. That's the wall of the box.
utside-the-box-thinkin
59. A man is replacing a wheel on his car, when he
accidentally drops the four nuts used to hold the
wheel on the car, and they fall into a deep drain,
irretrievably lost. A passing girl offers him a
solution which enables him to drive home. What
is it?.
utside-the-box-thinkin
60. A man is replacing a wheel on his car, when he
accidentally drops the four nuts used to hold the
wheel on the car, and they fall into a deep drain,
irretrievably lost. A passing girl offers him a
solution which enables him to drive home. What
is it?.
utside-the-box-thinkin
61. Three switches outside a windowless
room are connected to three light
bulbs inside the room. How can you
determine which switch is connected
to which bulb if you may enter the
room only once?
utside-the-box-thinkin
62. A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every
day he takes the elevator to go down to the
ground floor to go to work. When he returns he
takes the elevator to the 7th floor and walks up
the stairs to reach his apartment on the 10th floor.
He hates walking so why does he do it? Clue: on
rainy days he goes up in the elevator to the tenth
floor.
utside-the-box-thinkin
63. Two Nigerians walk down
a street in Lagos. One
Nigerian is the father of
the other Nigerian’s son.
How are they related?
utside-the-box-thinkin
64. If you put a small coin into a an
empty wine bottle and replace the
cork, how would you get the coin
out of the bottle without taking out
the cork or breaking the bottle?
utside-the-box-thinkin
65. What occurs once in
June, once in July
and twice in August
utside-the-box-thinkin
74. I am not a boss, I AM A GARDENER.
Mine is to sow and water the seeds of
great thinking in my colleagues & I
and to weed out all the ill habits that
will
hinder them from thinking higher to
75. I am not a boss, I AM AN ARTIST
Mine is to paint beautiful pictures in my
thoughts of a great future on my heart and
the hearts of my friends.
76. I am not a boss, I AM A MENTOR.
Mine is to give these great friends
the keys to success and to shine the
light
on the pitfalls along their career paths
to success.
77. I am not a boss, I AM A BUILDER.
Mine is to build in them the principles,
habits and lifestyle of greatness daily,
one friend at a time.
78. I am not a boss, I AM A ROLE
MODEL.
Mine is to be a shining example
of what true greatness can be.
Summary: The problem with urging outside-the-box thinking is that many of us do a less-than-stellar job of thinking inside the box. We often fail to realize the options and opportunities that are blatantly visible inside the box that could dramatically improve our chances of success. We fall victim to familiar traps, such as doing things the same old (ineffective) way or discounting colleague and teammate ideas. Thinking outside of the box can generate innovative and ingenious ideas and outcomes, but the results will flop when teammates ignore the ideas inside the box.
GETTING STUCK ON SAME LEVEL OF THINKING, IMMOBILIZES YOU. SOMEONE REPEATEDLY THINKS ABOUT HIS IMAGE, SO HE ALWAYS DRESSES TO PLEASE THE OPPOSITE SEX, HAIR CUT, SAGGY PANTS, EAR RINGS, PIERCING BODY PARTS, COSTLY PHONE, BELTS SHOES, ETC. THIS PERSONS THOUGHT PROCESS WILL REVOLVE AROUND ????
GETTING STUCK ON SAME LEVEL OF THINKING, IMMOBILIZES YOU. SOMEONE REPEATEDLY THINKS ABOUT HIS IMAGE, SO HE ALWAYS DRESSES TO PLEASE THE OPPOSITE SEX, HAIR CUT, SAGGY PANTS, EAR RINGS, PIERCING BODY PARTS, COSTLY PHONE, BELTS SHOES, ETC. THIS PERSONS THOUGHT PROCESS WILL REVOLVE AROUND ????
GETTING STUCK ON SAME LEVEL OF THINKING, IMMOBILIZES YOU. SOMEONE REPEATEDLY THINKS ABOUT HIS IMAGE, SO HE ALWAYS DRESSES TO PLEASE THE OPPOSITE SEX, HAIR CUT, SAGGY PANTS, EAR RINGS, PIERCING BODY PARTS, COSTLY PHONE, BELTS SHOES, ETC. THIS PERSONS THOUGHT PROCESS WILL REVOLVE AROUND ????
Summary: The problem with urging outside-the-box thinking is that many of us do a less-than-stellar job of thinking inside the box. We often fail to realize the options and opportunities that are blatantly visible inside the box that could dramatically improve our chances of success. We fall victim to familiar traps, such as doing things the same old (ineffective) way or discounting colleague and teammate ideas. Thinking outside of the box can generate innovative and ingenious ideas and outcomes, but the results will flop when teammates ignore the ideas inside the box.
LATERAL THINKING The term 'lateral thinking' was coined by Edward de Bono to denote a problem-solving style that involves looking at the given situation from unexpected angles. Sometimes a problem seems difficult or insoluble because our assumptions about it are wrong. In his own words "You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. This means that trying harder in the same direction may not be as useful as changing direction. Effort in the same direction (approach) will not necessarily succeed. Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perceptions". It requires thinking "out of the box"......Here are some well known examples.
You cannot elevate to higher thinking if you do not realize where you are?
The first step for a change leader is to free up resources that are committed to maintaining things that no longer contribute to performance and no longer produce results. Maintaining yesterday is always difficult and extremely time-consuming. Maintaining yesterday always commits the institution's scarcest and most valuable resources--and above all, its ablest people--to non results. Yet doing anything differently--let alone innovating--always creates unexpected difficulties. It demands leadership by people of high and proven ability. And if those people are committed to maintaining yesterday, they are simply not available to create tomorrow.
The first step for a change leader is to free up resources that are committed to maintaining things that no longer contribute to performance and no longer produce results. Maintaining yesterday is always difficult and extremely time-consuming. Maintaining yesterday always commits the institution's scarcest and most valuable resources--and above all, its ablest people--to non results. Yet doing anything differently--let alone innovating--always creates unexpected difficulties. It demands leadership by people of high and proven ability. And if those people are committed to maintaining yesterday, they are simply not available to create tomorrow.
Listen to each other's suggestions. Don't be so quick to dismiss each other's ideas. Challenge assumptions. Create team norms that improve working together. Build a relationship with the customer before building the product. Consider the customer's perspective when asking questions. Spend more time talking with the customer—and listening. Spend more time planning before starting to build. Ask more questions about what's expected. Ask better questions about what's expected. Draw from each other's strengths. Collaborate with other teams and learn from each other. Consider what we've learned in other similar projects. Consider what we've learned in other projects unlike this one. Relate this problem to other problems team members have had experience with. Have a team member observe how the team is doing and give feedback. Seek advice from others who have already undertaken similar projects. Stop periodically and assess how the team is doing.
When you do this exercise, you will come up with a few items right away. They are the obvious things you already know. When you get to the end of those, it will suddenly get very hard. That's the wall of the box. This is the place where you must press on. Think outside the box. When you get through that wall, those new ideas will come easier. You'll come up with things you never thought of before
One not from each of the other three wheels
One not from each of the other three wheels
Turn a switch on for one minute. Then turn it off. Switch on a second switch. Go into the room and feel the bulbs. Warm bulb is connected to the first switch, the on-bulb to the second switch.
He is a dwarf, and so can only reach the elevator button of the 7 th floor. On rainy days, he uses his umbrella to reach the button of the 10 th floor.
They are husband and wife
Push cork in and shake out the coin
THE LETTER U
The Power of Passion Passion is that which burns inside us after everything else is lying flat and bland at our feet. Passion can make you walk one more mile when you are certain that mile will kill you, and passion still sparks after you have walked that last mile and found nothing at the end of it but more road. We are all passionate about something. It can be as quiet as relishing a sunset or as forceful as running a marathon. We have all felt it at one time or another. You are literally infused with energy, you look forward to the next challenge even if it stands in the way of your main goal. All the barriers you cross only reinforce how important this one single thing is. When you use passion in anything you create you will find it holds a special affinity with the world it is flung into. If you listen to music very carefully you can hear the passion the artists have put into it. It's alive. It reveals much more than the notes and words that are being played, it glimpses into the souls of the people who created it. If we want our creating to reflect the impression that we care about what we are doing we need to be passionate about it. If you want your imaginations to dreg up ideas that you will find not only useful but meaningful become passionate about your subject. You can't fake passion. You have to feel it genuinely. Think back to a time when you simply had to accomplish something. It didn't have to be important to anyone but you. It was something you were absolutely dedicated to accomplishing no matter what the cost or even the reward. It can be something simple, something everyone else seemed to reach so easily yet you struggled with it. Remember back to when you had to learn to ride that bicycle, or pass your driver's test. You were willing to put in whatever effort was necessary. It didn't matter how many times you fell off that bike or how many parallel parkings you had to do using garbage cans till you finally got it right; no matter the neighbors thought you had lost it hours ago and were getting ready to put the nut wagon on speed dial. These things were so important to you it didn't matter what anyone thought of you or your methods, you were determined to accomplish them. In the end you thought of the way that would make them work for you. That is the true power of passion, it sustains you, energizes you, feeds you. Your imagination works overtime to help you find the very thing that can make you reach your goal. That is the passion you bring to your brainstorming session. That is the enthusiasm you infuse your imagination with. Get excited about what you are creating. Put passion into your work. Truly give of yourself. Fulfill your passion.