Apr 27
Patricia Harmon, PhD, was the keynote speaker at the 2012 OnCourse Annual Conference at the Long Beach Hilton in California. Over 400 college educators participated in this skills-based presentation. A video will be posted shortly.
Jun 16
Are you ready for an empowering journey through the many paths to innovation? The Mind of an Innovator is a comprehensive guide to expanding the current limits of your thinking and to seeing opportunities where none existed before. The habits and techniques that have allowed businesses and individuals to make huge leaps are set out, reminding us that no matter what the nature of innovation is, complex or simple, we all have the capacity to innovate.
How does emotional intelligence affect the quality of our thinking? What are the unique thinking skills that create outside-the-box ideas? How is the exciting new science of “biomimicry” a rich source of eco-sustainable innovation? The answers to these questions are essential reading for business people, parents, community leaders and ordinary people who want to expand their horizons. In tough times, when there isn’t a lot of money to go around, it is more important than ever to look for low cost, high value ways of making yourself and your business superior. And The Mind of an Innovator will get you started.
The Mind of An Innovator: A Guide to Seeing Possibilities Where None Existed Before
Available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle edition
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Jun 10
She stood in the middle of the Capilano Suspension Bridge, teetering on 450 feet of swaying, wobbly, wooden slats 230 feet above rocks and fast-moving rapids in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Clipboard in hand, she waited for young men to cross. And cross they did, holding on as tightly as they could.
What happens is that you wait for inspiration to deliver some creative thought that you hope will benefit you in some way. It does happen that way, but you may wait a very long time for something fruitful. In today’s time-compressed world where we’re going from one activity to the next, even if you do get some inspiration, chances are you may not capture it to re-visit later. What a waste.
Jun 5
June 30: Wild and Wacky Wins the Innovation Race
July 15: Green Innovation: Mother Nature Shows Us How
July 30: Nature’s Answers to Self-Cleaning
August 15: Nature’s Answers to Packaging
August 30: Biomimicry at the Global Level
For many of us in the corporate world, it seems that there is less and less time to do all the things we have on or plate. There are many reasons for this, and whether we like it or not, we are forced to multi-task to get it all done.
When it comes to learning a new skill, it now seems a luxury to get a day or two away from the office. That’s why I teamed up with Learning Bursts, a company that has found a way to enable skill acquisition while multi-tasking. In essence, they provide ‘bursts’ of learning through auditory podcasts that fit into even the busiest lifestyle.
Jun 1
When we hear the punch line of a joke, the ‘aha’ we experience is the coming together of disparate thoughts in a novel way. Brainstorming needs humor. It frees participants from the chains of logic and makes them comfortable with tossing out any idea, no matter how far-fetched. Humor can trigger the kind of positive mood that encourages “out of the box” thinking that, though perhaps not specifically related to the issue under discussion, may often hold the critical key to a solution.
