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10 Creativity Mistakes Jeopardize Long-Term Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. A natural human reaction to any new idea is to point out potential weaknesses.

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10 Ways To Trample And Smother Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. A natural human reaction to any new idea is to point out potential weaknesses.

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10 Great Ways To Crush Creativity In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. A natural human reaction to any new idea is to point out potential weaknesses.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video). We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This is a long post, so I put an executive summary here if you want to get the point without reading all the detail. If you plan to read the post you can skip the summary if you want. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector. Just 12 bullet points & you’re done.

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