Don the Idea Guy offers 10 Idea Inspiring Lightning Rods, a list of ways to constantly expose your creative self to potentially inspirational ideas.
Though this list is aimed at individuals, it works on a number of levels, and even more powerfully, for creative companies. Many of the ideas can be incorporated into the work environment; others could be used as social activities. Your company could:
- share magazines and paperback books
- arrange lunch hour or after-work museum field trips
- hold book discussions
- have show & tell once a week allowing team members to inspire one another
- play word games as teams
- have a variety of music on hand
- attend lectures
- participate in Pecha-Kucha
- create a Wiki of inspirational ideas and web sites
- take classes together (or even offer them on-site!)
Please add your own ideas in the comments!
It’s such a simple thing, yet we often allow ourselves to get “too busy” to take care of fundamentals such as feeding our souls. Managers, do your part to inspire those around you!
Nice build on to my original post. I like your twist of taking the list intended for individual change and making it broader for corporate adaption. Brilliant!
~DON