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	<title>Brilliance Activator &#187; Brilliant Actions</title>
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	<description>helping organizations uncork the creative power of teams</description>
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		<title>Six Ways to Deal with Stumbling Blocks to Creative Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether we call it writer&#8217;s block, creative block, or the blues – sometimes we can&#8217;t come up with a single idea or a simple response. We&#8217;re stuck and there seems to be no way forward. This can happen for hours or it can happen for days. And sadly for some, it can happen for years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Track with de Bono, Six Hats and Creative Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Good Doctor: Prescriptions for Better Thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know how my Dad felt about it, but when I was young I loved it when we had to stop at a railroad crossing and watch the trains go by. One time while we were waiting, Dad asked me if I knew what the sign near the track said. I said no, so he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Lemonade – five insights to develop better change leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An insightful article appeared today in the McKinsey Quarterly, Developing Better Change Leaders.  The message of the article is that leadership too often overlooks the &#8220;softer&#8221; skills needed to spread and embed change throughout an organization. Here are some of their insights: Leaders can&#8217;t ask others to change if they&#8217;re not willing to change themselves. Tie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the plunge with new ideas – 7 questions for idea assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brainstorming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hand over the money, I&#8217;m armed! If you’ve ever attended a brainstorm session you have, like me, heard the phrase: “There are no bad ideas.” And like me, you probably said to yourself: “Oh yes there are!” During a brainstorm, we shouldn’t judge ideas because judgment stifles idea generation. But once the idea generation phase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Constraints To Innovation &amp; Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation may be the latest business craze, but for most organizations, the achievement of bold innovation targets is difficult. To make matters worse, any one of these nine constraints make the task of innovation more difficult, if not impossible: Lack of a clear innovation strategy. Failure to communicate the innovation strategy throughout the organization. Poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Slime, Leadership and Slime Balls</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/pink-slime-leadership-and-slime-balls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/pink-slime-leadership-and-slime-balls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Barb Shelly wrote a commentary in the Kansas City Star titled: ‘Pink Slime’ A Product Of Our Cheap-Beef Economy. In that article she quotes Donald D. Stull, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Kansas, saying this about pink slime: “It is interesting to watch how framing really transforms the dialogue. It seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is brainstorming an ideas generator or a myth?&#8230;part two</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/is-brainstorming-an-ideas-generator-or-a-myth-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/is-brainstorming-an-ideas-generator-or-a-myth-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brainstorming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s argument against brainstorming all wet? In my previous post, I suggested that Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s New Yorker Magazine article where he argued brainstorming doesn&#8217;t work was flawed. One of the major supports for his argument, a test performed at Yale University in 1958, did not disprove the effectiveness of brainstorming. Accepting the Yale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Lemons of Leadership – Episode Seven</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-episode-seven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-episode-seven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do leaders do? According to Robin Ryde in his book, Thought Leadership, leaders talk. In other words, communication is at the heart of being a good leader. &#8220;Crummy Communication&#8221;, the seventh of The Seven Lemons of Leadership, is one of the most serious reasons for failed leadership. In the video that follows, I discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Lemons of Leadership – Episode Six</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-episode-six-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-episode-six-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Corked Creativity,&#8221; the failure of leaders to put the creative power of their teams to productive and profitable use is the Sixth Lemon of Leadership. For over ten years the business press has published article after article about the necessity for creativity and innovation in organizations. They&#8217;re necessary not only for success but for continued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Lemons Of Leadership – Episode Five</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-episode-five/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-episode-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Actions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economics are at the heart of business. But how we define economics, what we enable economics to encompass, determines whether our leadership is rich or poor. This episode of The Seven Lemons of Leadership examines the cause of poor economics and what we can do to avoid it. Brilliance Activator helps leaders uncork the creative [...]]]></description>
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