Adventures in Divergent Thinking

Breaking through the inertia of no.

Kathryn Haydon MSc

How to Heal a Deep Soul

Deep souls are often misunderstood. Worse, they are regularly criticized, which usually results in a deeply held belief that something is wrong with them.

4 Ways Sea Glass Collecting Can Improve Your Thinking

Here are four ways to learn from sea glass collecting to improve your creative thinking agility, as well as your freedom and potential prosperity.

How to Spot a Deep Soul

Outliers, contrarians, nonconformists . . . these are little-understood thinkers who have what it takes to rethink assumptions and discover truly innovative solutions.

Cognitive Diversity

IBM conducted an internal study on growing and sustaining efficient and effective innovation teams.

The Biggest Challenge That Businesses Are Facing in 2020

As we approach the final quarter of 2020, I can predict the number-one issue that businesses are going to face as a fallout from the pandemic: parents at the end of their ropes.

How to Survive When A.I. Takes Over Your Job

A recent report predicted that by 2030, one-third of Americans will need to find a new line of work.

Is Design Thinking the Best Creative Process for Business?

The term design thinking or human-centered design has been gaining steam for at least a decade in contexts as varied as education and finance.

The 4 Degrees of Creativity

Let me share the story of one of my favorite leaders to illustrate The Four C Model and how creativity can grow over time in an individual—or stay distinctly personal.

Spot Divergent Thinking Strengths

Once you have identified and started to use your strengths more deliberately, it is easier to spot them in those around you.

What Water Has to Do With Your Creativity

Have you ever thought deeply about water? How would you describe the taste of water?

Perpetual Prototype Mode

Prototype mode allows us to test the ever-changing marketplace in real time and fail fast if need be.

Why You Need to Practice Divergent Thinking

Divergent thinking is ideational or visionary in nature. It involves rigorous gymnastics of the mind that lead to unexpected solutions.

Start Your Ripple Effect of Possibility

To start your own ripple effect, toss a few stones in the water by building on your own creative thinking strengths.

4 Questions to Help You Avoid Groupthink

The consistent practice of creative thinking tools and strategies will help you loosen the groupthink for yourself and your team as you continue to break through the inertia of no.

Leading for Possibility

Any time you set out to make something new—a poem, an article, a product, a theory, or a change to a system, you (likely unknowingly) engage in the universal creative process.

How to Unmask Your Smile

Have you ever met someone whose eyes shimmer with joy? Have you ever consciously tried to smile with your eyes? It’s a skill we’d all best improve today.

Innovation in a Crisis

State your problem: We have no income. Turn it into a possibility question: What might be all the ways to bring in new streams of income? 

Can Creativity Help to Stop Contagion?

Believe it or not, creativity is made for times like these! Creativity is our secret weapon to thrive in the face of change and it can inoculate us against the contagion of fear. 

How I Didn’t Let the Inertia of No Win

How to shift momentum in your life.

How to Love at Work

Have you noticed that there aren’t enough tender feelings towards others in the world today? Have you noticed the same at work?

The Non-Obvious Creative Process

Many people believe that creativity is willy-nilly and chaotic. It’s not, or, at least, it shouldn’t be. Done right, creativity is an in-depth process that uses a full spectrum of thinking.

For Deep Souls: Holiday Survival Hacks

How can deep souls survive this holiday season and maybe even have a little fun? Here are five possibilities.

Curiosity, Creativity, and a Meaningful Christmas

One year our family spent weeks traveling to visit with with several different groups of people. We went to many gatherings and dinner parties.

How Gratitude Can Increase Your Productivity at Work

Deliberately expressing gratitude is not only the right thing to do; it’s an exercise in creative thinking that helps break through inertia.

How My Shoe Salesman at Nordstrom Helped Me

Getting unstuck at work.

Back-to-School for Grownups

Did you know that the state of your personal creativity can make or break your year?

10 Statistics You Need to Know About Creativity at Work

Over the last decade, talk about the importance of creativity-related skills in business has skyrocketed.

5 Ways to Improve Your Corporate Climate

Have you ever encountered institutional inertia?

10 Statistics You Need to Know About Creativity at Work

Whether you need a statistic about creativity to present to the hiring managers on your team or you just need a reminder of how important creativity is.

Millennials and Gen Z Need Training in This One Skill Set

There is something that sets apart Generations Y and Z that few have recognized as influential on their professional lives: federal education law.

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