Innovation  

What's the difference between enthusiasm and gasoline? Maybe, there's not much difference between the two. They both provide the power to drive us forward.

The internal combustion engine of our automobile runs on gasoline. Gasoline vapor enters the cylinder and the spark plug ignites the fumes unleashing the power that can ...read more

Innovation is simply the foundation of new beginnings. Through innovation we can find new products, learn new techniques are reap the rewards of offer better quality, more simplistic style and even help to bring out dollar a little farther. But, what many business owners do not realize is ...read more

Many books on time management recommend the practice of thinking of each hour of your time as being worth a specific quantity of money. It’s an extension of the “time is money” concept. First you figure out what your hourly rate is, and then you use that as a guide ...read more

One problem-solving technique you should master is changing perspectives to redefine the problem.

The way you define a problem is often the key to solving it. Take a current problem from your life that you’re having difficulty solving. Then ask yourself: How can this problem be redefined as a financial problem? ...read more

Yesterday I was visiting a fellow Toastmaster, and we watched a DVD called Magic Moments II. This is a video that analyzes 30 clips from the 2001-2003 International World Championship of Public Speaking Competition in order to study some of the best practices. I saw this same presentation live at ...read more

Optimal Thinking by Rosalene Glickman is a book I read about a year ago. I don’t recommend that anyone here read it because it’s one of those books that reads like an article padded out to the length of the book. You need only read the first chapter to absorb ...read more

A client shared something with me during a recent session that inspired me to write this e-zine. Her husband is a contractor and was working on a bathroom for one of his clients. They asked him to build a wall in a certain place, which he did. This left him ...read more

What could you use a few good problem solving strategies for? New ideas for your business, perhaps. New ways to deal with your children. To come up with different approaches to building things, writing stories, or finding a job. Whatever the purpose, here are a couple powerful problem solving strategies.

Use ...read more

Lewis Carroll, in his book, Through the Looking Glass, has Humpty Dumpty smugly intone, 'Whenever I use a word it means exactly what I choose it to mean, nothing more and nothing less.' Such seems to be the case whenever the topics of improvement and innovation are discussed.

Improvement means ...read more

Innovation is constantly coming up with new ideas, implementing them, protect them once growing, and than comes the hardest part. Leaving them.

“Partir, c’est mourir un peu” (help me, who said that?) If that is true and literary expressions tend to be true often, what does that mean for innovations?

In Holland ...read more