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More Brain Exercises

In our past two posts we talked about pumping up your brain and we offered a couple of brain exercises. Here are a couple more for your little gray cells.

Brain Exercises

We talked recently about pumping up your brain with exercises for the little gray cells. Today, here are two more to try:

Pump Up Your Brain

According to Nobel prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling, the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. Unfortunately, school teaches us to find the right answer, when actually there is usually more than one right answer for a problem.

5 Best Posts – January 2010

We had some very popular posts in January – some old and some new. I thought I’d share them with you.

1. 8 Ways To Use Twitter Lists
2. Twittering Journalists
3. Be Relevant
4. When Billboards Go Bad
5. 7 Ways To Kickstart Your 2010 Marketing 

What’s your favorite?

My New Business Secret Formula

We’ve talked here often about the fact that there is no marketing magic bullet. But there is a new business magic bullet, and I’m going to tell you the secret formula. Only a handful of those who read this will successfully implement within their business because it is not shiny and new.

Creativity 2010 – Week #4

Here are our creativity links for Week 4 of 2010:

Don’t Take The First Right Answer – The first answer is rarely the best answer. A better approach is to take a little time to generate a long list.

Ten Steps For Boosting Your Creativity -  Some good information from Jeffrey Baumgartner to joggle the little gray cells.

Time For The Spin Cycle

It’s always interesting to see how the media and the politicians try to spin a story. Let’s take a look today at the Massachusetts victory of Republican Scott Brown over Martha Coakley in the bluest of blue states. Here’s what they are saying about it:

Boston Globe

#1 With A Bullet

Old radio guys like me remember the phrase “#1 With A Bullet.” This was what you said about a hit record (wow, does anyone else remember records?) that was #1 on the chart and continuing to sell well.

Creativity 2010 – Week #3

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein

Here’s our creativity update for Week 3 – 2010

The Eyes Have It. New research indicates that horizontal eye exercises may improve creativity.

Do You Have Issues? Part 2

We talked in Part 1 about the objectives of issues management.

Tactically, there are a number of weapons available for managing organizational issues. First, is a strong, credible image. A proactive program to maintain this image could include:

* an issues audit

* media monitoring to detect existing or emerging issues of importance