Innovative Business Leadership
Simply having constraints can improve your creativity, challenge you to do your best. In the case of an automatic camera, removing the automation serves to sharpen your focus on getting the picture right.
What constraints do you set before yourself? Which constraints in your life, perhaps placed there with intent, make your life more colorful, more rewarding as a result?
Moments, free of distraction, allow our minds to wander freely. The tortoise part of our brain crawls out of its shell. Unfortunately, even when we think we are thinking freely and without constraints, we are not.
My most creative moments come when there is great peace around me. If writing is the focus, my favorite times are…
This is a question you probably have asked yourself, at some point in your life. Odds are you have asked the question more than once. Once for each new job, each new profession, each new…
The question tends to be ‘professionally’ oriented when it is being asked. How long until you can consider yourself an experienced…whatever it is you are?
Now we know, that motorcyclists, like Leaders, are different people. Why is that? In short, what studies repeatedly show is, what we do more of, we get better at.
Motorcycling is healthy for you. Simply thinking about it stimulates your brain.
Credibility, it is a key enabler, a coin to the realm. Find it, keep it, do what you can to never misplace it.
As we ride with each other, we come to trust each other. We come to understand how each other will perform. In difficult, stressful, perhaps dangerous situations we learn how each will behave. With time comes respect…
It’s a question that we frequently ask ourselves, perhaps professionally, perhaps personally. In answering the question, have you broken the question down enough to be useful, to be precise?
Final series segment. Following John Cleese’s suggestion to let creative, whimsical, spontaneous thinking loose, I did. Hence, Things That Happen while motorcycling.
John Cleese encourages us to set aside structured, professional, hare-like thinking. In it’s place, set aside time for creative, whimsical, spontaneous, or from the gut, thinking to rise up. So, I tried it…
So I tried it.
