A germinal idea requires the sanctuary of a mindspace that is totally nurturing. It requires a space to grow so that its wildness is not nipped in the bud. Who knows which weed will become the coffee bush? Let the wilderness flourish in a totally non-threatening atmosphere. Let the ideas grow high and tall. Leave …
Life provides rich material to develop creative ideas. There is a story in the Bhagavatham about how Uddhava asks Krishna the question, “Who is a Teacher?” Krishna says: “Look at the sky; far, far away, you can see an eagle swift and strong and free. In a single instant, it can swoop down to earth …
The world is in your drawing room, it is clamouring to change your life with more and more sophisticated toys. As a popular jingle goes, ‘What separates the men from the boys is just the price of their toys.’ Simplify and go home to what you really need. The world is like a buffet counter …
Look into the purple heart of an amethyst. Register the colour in your heart and illumine every part of yourself with that colour. Beauty has the power to open the secret doors of the human personality. You become relaxed, alert, comforted and nurtured. Your mind becomes fluid and flowing. All that is harsh and dissonant …
It is important to bring all the teams together and unite them to achieve a single goal. The goal should be noble; it should be inspiring and should fill the teams with energy and commitment. The leader could kick start things off with an inspiring presentation and ask everyone to give their ideas on how …
We generally fear our fathers and love our mothers. The concept of a mother – Goddess appeals more to our hearts than that of a father – God. Women are trained to be lovingly supportive. They show utmost patience when listening to a child struggling to say his first word. Patience is a culturally celebrated …
Socrates is said to describe poetry as a divine gift, ‘gathered…… out of glens and gardens of the Muses and they bring them as the bees do honey, flying in like the bees.’Picasso is said to have seen the handlebars of a bicycle and created the thoroughly modern ‘Bull’ from the handlebars. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s …
Tapping Stakeholder Creativity (TSC) involves facilitating intense discussion and problem solving between stakeholders to reinvent future products and processes. It is a radical new approach which enables companies to include the customers’ or vendors’ voice in developing a product, activity or service and encourages the inventing or shaping the future together. This is a unique …
Innovation is about new ideas. Creative ideas may be new but they need to be tamed to work in the corporate world. Take a wild idea like zero cost. Start the process of taming it by enclosing it in a sanctuary where it cannot be attacked but only developed. Suspend judgment, postpone reaction and extend …
The children of India are smiling. Polio that affected millions of children has been kicked out of India on January 13, 2012! As a Rotarian who was part of Polio Plus, I am happy and proud and smiling. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. …
