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		<title>The NFL Players&#8217; Strike, Argument and The Six Thinking Hats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Dymer of Brilliance Activator visited Arrowhead Stadium yesterday and had these thoughts about the NFL Players&#8217; Strike:   If you&#8217;d like more information about The Six Thinking Hats process, email chuck@brillianceactivator.com. Brilliance Activator helps leaders uncork the creative power of their teams to develop products and services that delight customers, increase repeat sales, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idea Generation and Premature Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Idea Generation takes time. Time to come up with ideas and time to shape them into something useful. Too often we fail to take the time. We forget that first ideas are raw ideas. Raw ideas seldom fit our parameters or appear as amazing breakthroughs, so we reject them. Imagine a man wants a garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Leader&#8217;s Ultimate Time and Money Saver for Business Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studies indicate that business leaders spend at least 25% of their time in business meetings. Unfortunately, most of those meetings are as exciting as the one below – Twenty-five years ago I discovered a way out of the &#8220;meeting-mess.&#8221; I read Dr. Edward de Bono&#8217;s book Six Thinking Hats, applied his insights, and experienced improvements in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainzooming Brown Backs Brainstorming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Brown&#8217;s Brainzooming post on May 27th was a brilliant defense of brainstorming. Brainstorming is a useful, powerful technique when used the way its inventor, Alex Osborn, intended it to be used. Brainstorming, as Mike Brown nicely put it, is a tool for divergent thinking: expanding the range of possibilities considered. If you&#8217;d like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence is Golden, part one</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliant-actions/silence-is-golden-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in London the week all U.K. flights were cancelled due to the ash caused by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano. I&#8217;ve been to London many times and this time I was struck by how much more quiet it was without 3000 jet take-offs and landings each day. It was amazing. Today I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Duty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the title of a recent article by Natalie Angier in The New York Times: &#8220;Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally.&#8221; The point of the article is this – we embody, we incorporate, we flesh-out the abstractions we think about. As the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty put it: we are our bodies. When people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solo Brainstorming?</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/musings/solo-brainstorming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post appeared earlier this month on Harvard Business Review&#8217;s Blog Network. The title of the post, authored by Andrew O&#8217;Brien, was: &#8220;Sometimes, It&#8217;s Better to Brainstorm Alone.&#8221; If, by brainstorming, he was referring to the technique developed by Alex Osborn, solo brainstorming is a contradiction in terms. If he is using &#8220;brainstorming&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pierogi Perusal</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/creative-thinking-techniques/463/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother made a mean pierogi. Her best were the potato pierogies, slathered in butter and seasoned with dill. A pierogi is a semi-circular dumpling made from unleavened dough. Traditionally they are filled with potatoes, ground meat, or mushrooms and cabbage. If made as a dessert, they can be filled with different fruits and rolled [...]]]></description>
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