A Thousand Little Lightbulbs provides a fun, practical, BS free guide to dealing with your creative OGRE, taking off the blinkers and leveraging the greatest innovation tool in your business: your people. If you’re interested in unlocking potential, having a constant stream of fresh thinking, great ideas and having some fun in the process, this book is for you.
In this book, Simon helps you to
Turbocharge your imagination
Develop your curiosity and deliver a constant stream of fresh thinking and great ideas, without taking off in a gypsy caravan or roasting your own coffee from single origin, hand-picked beans.
Inspire your Team
How to enable your team to thrive and fulfill their innovation potential so they see more possibilities than ever before.
Shift your culture
Create a culture where people and innovation thrive, along with brilliant ideas, market-leading thinking, products and results.
Develop essential innovation tools
From asking great questions through to simple prototyping and pitching, learn essential tools to nurture a culture of innovation
Tame your Ogre
How to tame the Ogre that tells you you’re not creative, and how to keep it away while you bring your most brilliant self to work
Use his framework to keep it simple
Seven clear (and fun) steps to kickstart a culture of innovation that will enable your organisation to thrive in a disruptive world, without taking up any extra time
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The Framework
In 1000 Little Lightbulbs, you’ll find Simon’s seven simple steps to kick start a culture of innovation in your organisation that combine his experiences mashing up the creative and corporate landscapes.
With that in mind, Simon brings you a framework to use in your everyday work life. It’s not a one-off corporate day out or team building exercise that falls flat when whitewater rafting fails to translate to your management meeting.
It’s full of ideas you can implement today, and build into your way of doing things into the future, no matter what.
Dance with your Ogre. This is where innovation often stops before it even begins! Acknowledge your monster. Get laughter happening, have some fun, and be ready for the challenge. Energy, fun, humour, and good vibes are all essential parts of the innovation process.
Get your language right. Many potential great ideas and products are killed by language the moment they’re mentioned. Language drives thinking, which drives behaviour – and behaviour drives results. You need to replace the words “no” “ and “but” with “yes” and “and”.
So, what’s the problem? Innovation starts with a problem, not an idea. Get really clear on the problem you’re trying to solve before you try to solve it. Keep asking “why?” to get to the heart of the issue, and keep focusing on the end user!
Explore your idea. Go really, really wide in your thinking before you go deep. Great stimulation in = great ideas out. To get really clear on what your problem is, leverage as many different approaches and styles as you can. Overload your senses with multiple forms of stimulation, and have some fun.
Prototype and test it. Get real with your idea and mock it up. Draw it out, cut and paste it, build it, make it visual, but whatever you do, create something tangible that people can interact with. Get real. What’s working here? What’s missing? Where would this stumble?
Pitch it.Every idea needs a commercial blowtorch applied to it. Add some deadlines, and pitch. Be ready to tell people what’s great about your idea, and embrace feedback and different perspectives.
Repeat. The process of innovation is never-ending. So you need a never-ending curiosity and energy to make great stuff happen. "Repeat" is the new mantra for a culture of innovation.
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About The Author
Simon is a sought-after speaker, author, and thought leader in business innovation and creativity.
His characteristic vim and vigour leaps off the page and engages your mind, and keeps you there for the ride. And his unique blend of energetic enthusiasm, creativity and humour guarantees that this book will live on in your memory for all the right reasons.
Simon marries his innate creative abilities with an extensive knowledge of the corporate world to ignite fresh, innovative thinking that lasts long after you’ve finished implementing these brilliant ideas.
Now based in Sydney, Simon loves to travel and live life to the fullest. When he’s not presenting, he can often be found chasing his three young kids, creating and illustrating in his studio, surfing, and finding new adventures with his family.
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