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		<title>How to Innovate@Speed</title>
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Despite all you read, innovation is really quite simple. It consists of five key steps:&#160;1. Create a range of workable concepts (i.e create, enhance and evaluate your raw ideas).&#160;2. Test these as quickly and as cheaply as you can.&#160;3. Measure what happens.&#160;4. Learn from how consumers or users react to your new product, service, solution [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to Innovate@Speed", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/feature/how-to-innovatespeed/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Are your Key Metrics in place?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to 2010. It seems just yesterday that we were playing volleyball on the wonderful beaches of Malaysia.
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I hope all of you had a wonderful break.
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This year my first assignment has been with Dell Computers. One of the most noticeable aspects of their culture is their emphasis on measurement. This makes sense for a direct [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Are your Key Metrics in place?", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/applications-of-speed-thinking/are-your-key-metrics-in-place/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How to become an original thinker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be an original thinker and why is it important? 
I believe these are wonderful questions. I have tried most of my adult life to be original for better or for worse. It has made me sometimes stand out, to be able to think of different and sometimes valuable new ideas [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to become an original thinker", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/feature/hot-to-become-an-original-thinker/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How to improve your exam results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is about this time when year 12 students (in Australia) receive their final year school results. It can be a mixture of joy or disappointment. But often there is a feeling of, &#8216;if only&#160;I had studied harder or longer&#160;I might have gained a few extra marks.&#8217; 
There is also a feeling (from talking to [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to improve your exam results", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/feature/how-to-improve-your-exam-results-2/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Structured Intuition&#8211;The best of both worlds?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people believe that there are two types of decision-making. The first is the classic approach which is calls for a precise defining of the decision, developing a number of options and then carefully considering each approach and then deciding on the right decision. This approach has many apparent benefits&#8211;it is rational, people believe it [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Structured Intuition&#8211;The best of both worlds?", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/feature/structured-intuition-the-best-of-both-worlds/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be a One-Pace Thinker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A million years ago&#160;I was a young man trying with all my heart to become a first grade soccer player. I once came on as a reserve but never quite made it. The reason? The first grade coach described me as a one-pace player. By this he meant that regardless of the circumstances of the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Don&#8217;t be a One-Pace Thinker", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/time-management/dont-be-a-one-pace-thinker/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How to make good decisions quickly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all believe that to make a good decision you need to take your time, carefully create and consider all the options and then make a final choice. This is what many people consider the ideal decision-making process. Yet in the real world when:
- Time is short
- Perfect information is not available 
- You do [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to make good decisions quickly", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/stop-procrastination/how-to-make-good-decisions-quickly/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Re-energize yourself&#8211;naturally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Question: What is one of the fastest growing packaged categories in the world? 
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		<title>&#8216;Connect, always connect&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quote is from a book, The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler (page 230). This 700 page classic was written in 1964 and is still (I believe) the best book on creative thinking ever written. 

Koestler&#8217;s basic idea is that the creative act is a &#34;bisociation&#34; which happens, if two (or more) apparently incompatible [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8216;Connect, always connect&#8217;", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/breakthrough-innovation/connect-always-connect/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>What do you most fear?</title>
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We have all heard of the seven deadly sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride) but what of the seven deadly fears?&#160;These are (in no particular order):
1. Fear of Dying&#160;2. Fear of Ageing&#160;3. Fear of Change&#160;4. Fear of not Measuring up to Other&#8217;s Expectations. &#160;5. Fear of Rejection.&#160;6. Fear of Failure&#160;7. Fear of [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What do you most fear?", url: "http://www.thespeedthinkingzone.com/mental-training/what-do-you-fear/" });</script>]]></description>
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