Think Differently and Spark Creativity

"We need to think differently!"
"This needs some fresh ideas!"
"We have got to be more creative around here!"

Are messages like these popping up more and more in your workplace?

Faced with complex, open-ended, ever-changing challenges, organizations realize that constant, ongoing innovation is critical to stay ahead of the competition.

This is why we need to be on the lookout for new ideas that can drive innovation, and it's why the ability to think differently, generate new ideas, and spark creativity within a team becomes an important skill. You need to work actively on building and cultivating this skill, and it can be done!

Often, though, we make the mistake of assuming that good ideas just happen. Or worse still, we get caught in the mind trap that creativity is an aptitude; some people have it, others don't. Then there is the other self-defeating belief – "I am not intelligent enough to come up with good ideas."

These assumptions are rarely true. Everyone can come up with fresh, radical ideas – you just need to learn to open your mind and think differently. This article shows you how to do so.

How to Generate New Ideas

Standard idea-generation techniques concentrate on combining or adapting existing ideas. This can certainly generate results. But here, our focus is on equipping you with tools that help you leap onto a totally different plane. These approaches push your mind to forge new connections, think differently and consider new perspectives.

A word of caution – while these techniques are extremely effective, they will only succeed if they are backed by rich knowledge of the area you're working on. This means that if you are not prepared with adequate information about the issue, you are unlikely to come up with a great idea even by using the techniques listed here.

Incidentally, these techniques can be applied to spark creativity in group settings and brainstorming sessions as well.

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Five Tactics To Win The Talent War.

1. Remove Rigid Job Descriptions: The days of drawing up rigid job descriptions are over. People want variety, flexibility and a sense of self-determination in their work. Instead, give your staff a constantly evolving set of projects (tasks that have an end) and prototypes (tasks that are ongoing). Those who produce the best outputs gain more responsibility and can literally be promoted monthly. And conversely you can quickly trim back the projects or prototype responsibilities of those who aren't delivering.

2. Internal Promotions: Gain a reputation for backing people who already work within your organisation. Over 90% of Blueprint’s management team originated from entry-level positions within the company. This built a loyal and committed staff culture, which ensured people hit the ground running when promoted rather than taking time to find their feet. And there peers in seeing them recognised put in more effort to ensure they would be next.

3. Keep Score: People want to be involved in the success of the company, yet profit or share price is often demotivating or out of the control of the average employee. Instead, develop a magic metric – the one figure that dictates ultimate success (e.g. % of time in the opposition half for a soccer team, or number of property listings for a real estate firm). This narrow focus ensures you celebrate success and sets milestones that will help your people play the game of business to win.

4. Openly Communicate: As leaders we often assume people know what is going on because an email was sent, or we assume they don’t need to or want to know some of the big picture strategies we are working on. To engage and inspire your workforce you need to communicate with them regularly across different media. Every Friday afternoon we held a ‘fire-down’ where departments shared their wins, humorous happenings and changes if they could. Every quarter we would hold a ‘director’s launch’ for everyone on staff to communicate the focus for the upcoming 90 days.

5. Empowerment: Let go of your 1980’s inspired micro-management techniques and instead start to trust your people to make better decisions than you. This includes giving them progressive financial approval limits and implementing a decision-making methodology allowing people to make good decisions with confidence.

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How to Survive 'Big Bang' Disruption:

Remember the big box that was called a mobile phone about 20 years ago? I waited to join the cell phone club until I bought my first Nokia, which was much more affordable and a lot easier to handle. Then, about 10 years ago, I felt really cool with my HTC smartphone on Windows, and I eventually made the transition to a “Blackberry-style” Samsung. About four years ago, I bought my first iPhone, and I’ve stuck with Apple since. But who knows what the future holds?

Whenever products with more advanced, smarter or faster technology are introduced, consumers are given new opportunities to purchase the things they believe will best serve their needs. As that decision-making process plays out around the world, brands that are caught off guard may find themselves struggling for survival. Every day, it seems, we hear another story about the emergence of a new technology or product powerful enough to disrupt the most vaunted companies – or even an entire industry. At Accenture, we call this “Big Bang Disruption” because of the seismic changes such disruptions bring to their markets. Think of how digital cameras impaled film companies; how Netflix shuttered video stores; how streaming videos have, in turn, challenged Netflix. While these disruptions seem to affect the tech industry above all others, every industry is at risk.

The most interesting thing to me about this phenomenon is how quickly such disruptions can capsize a company or even an industry. In a recently published article in Businessweek.com, author Leonard Fuld notes that the average industry disruption to an industry takes about 25 years, roughly the same amount of time it took Mt. St. Helens to erupt again in 2004 after its famous explosion in 1980. But a 25-year time frame seems luxurious to me. Within 18 months of Google launching its beta app, Google Maps Navigation, the GPS device market lost as much as 85 percent of its market cap. Digital technology gives industry disrupters virtually instant access to critical information that they can use to hone their offerings, modify their business plans and move markets.

With the prospect of future disruptions evolving into Big Bang events, today’s incumbent companies need to sharpen their ability to identify the beginnings of a disruption and determine how to best deal with new competitive threats.

My colleagues Paul Nunes and Larry Downes have an interesting perspective on Big Bang Disruption. Where Clayton Christensen famously termed this disruption as the Innovator’s Dilemma back in 1997, they see it as the Innovator’s Disaster, thanks to the speed and impact of new technology. And they point to three actions that companies need to take in order to remain competitive in a disruptive business environment:

1. Find a truth teller: Even though we are all on the lookout for disrupters, it’s easy to dismiss the failures of early versions of new products since it usually takes a long time for a single innovation to become a true breakthrough. To avoid being blindsided by a disrupter, find and seek the counsel of truth tellers – industry experts with profound insights who can predict, earlier than anyone else, when small tremors indicate imminent earthquakes. Often, the best truth tellers are found outside the organization, and business leaders need to find them, carefully consider their unvarnished perspective and take advantage of their expertise – before it’s too late to stave off the effects of the next Big Bang.
   
2. Diversify: When the Big Bang hits, incumbent companies lose market share. The companies that do survive are able to move their expertise, brand and intellectual properties into other industries where change is happening more slowly. However, industry leaders – with their big workforces, fixed assets and long-term partnerships – are often committed to a single business model and one industry perspective, making it extremely difficult to move quickly. So, prepare by diversifying the company’s assets and transforming their operation into a more flexible and easier-to-manage enterprise. Consider that when the film-based photo industry collapsed, it was Kodak – not Fujifilm Corp. – that went bankrupt. Fujifilm had already diversified its business by channeling some of its expertise into new areas, thereby allowing it to stay relevant in an industry that was undergoing dramatic change.
   
3. Make tough decisions: Some incumbents do survive, and in many cases, they emerge in the new version of the industry in a position of greater leverage and profitability. That requires management to be tough-minded and make difficult decisions that may result in an emotional response from stakeholders, especially as the traumatic change may include shedding assets, retiring products and closing out business models. Once the tough decisions are made, business leaders must focus on making the changeover as smooth as possible to ensure that the organization emerges with the ability to capitalize on the company’s core, often intangible assets – including brands, expertise and intellectual capital – and that it’s poised to shift into a new and profitable direction.

The threat of new challengers has always kept business leaders up at night. Some can hear the pre-quake tremors but shut their eyes again. The point is not to avoid the Big Bang Disruption or even mitigate it, but to prepare for it and even embrace it.

Being in touch with the changes that are sure to come, preparing for them and building the capability to responding quickly and effectively will enable big organizations to embrace change and thrive in a new environment.

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1. Make a folder on the desktop and name it as “folder”.
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3. In the ‘save as’ name it as lock.bat and click save !(Save it on Desktop)
4. Now, again open notepad again and write ren folder.{21EC2020-3AEA- 1069-A2DD-08002 B30309D} folder and now (Notepad Menu) File>save as.
5. In the ‘save as’ name it as key.bat and click save ! (Save it on Desktop)
6. Now, double click lock.bat to lock the folder and now if you open your folder, control panel will open up!

7. Now, double click key.bat to open the folder and now if you open your folder, you can access your data inside the folder again !
8. Lock your folder and hide the key.bat somewhere else on your hard disk !
9. Whenever you want to open your folder just paste the key.bat on desktop and open your folder using it.