DON! The Idea Guy

Encourage Brainstorming
Sure, new ideas are important, but how do you get
employees to set aside time to brainstorm?
Debra Newton, CEO of Newton Interactive, in Pennington, N.J., designates certain days each quarter as “idea days” during which an entire department of employees will scan the Web researching the same topic and report back on what they [...]

Is it just me…?
Do any of you folks think Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s (PARC) new “electronic reusable paper” looks familiar?
Their new product “GYRICON” reminds me of those “magic tablets” we used to have has children — you know… those things that had the acetate sheet covering a gray undercoating. You’d use a red plastic [...]

Creativity Can Be A Real Beach
Innovators share their patented ideas for curing the summertime blues
NY Times article focuses on several inventions to make life a day at the beach.
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Color Me Creative
Crayola’s website brings out the creative kid in all of us.
There are few things I liked better in my youth than Crayola Crayons. Especially the big box with the sharpener.
Awesome.
Now that I’m a big kid, I don’t use crayons as much as I used to (with the exception of using one to [...]

How to Seem Smarter
ReadyMade magazine’s four step plan gives the impression to those around you that you are smarter — not only smarter than you were before, but, more importantly, smarter than they are…
This (mostly) tongue-in-cheek article includes the four steps mentioned above, plus a short history of the scientific evaluation of intelligence, AND a [...]