If you are building a strong culture in your team you have to tell your own stories. AND stories are not told they are relived. Tell more about yourself. Go back in time and relive those moments that you are describing. Take your audience with you.
1/ A decade ago, one of my best friends took over his family's electrical business and worked 6 days a week to grow the company. He recently achieved a generational wealth level exit.
He told me a story once that helped me understand how his family achieved such success.
In 2013, the first time I went to the Red Dot Museum in Singapore.
For me, it was a lazy weekend visit. However, what amazed me was how it opened my mind.
I stopped thinking of Chandelier in a traditional way.
My ear started notificing the sound that comes up whenever I used to move the chair.
So here is a product to solve a problem that your brain ignores all the time but it starts noticing as soon as someone makes you aware of the problem.
#DoWeHaveAProblem
This was the product that amazed me when I saw it first time in one of the furniture shop in a Singapore mall.
Do I really need this?
After seeing this somehow my brain started noticing the scratches on the floor that came up due to chair movement.
If children has risk that they may eat battery how to solve it.
Make battery big?
Or make it so that kid spit it out if he even takes it in his mouth.
Creativity does not come from air. You see examples like these and then you apply it in your own problem-solving.
Filling out the hollow part of the cylindrical cardboard in toilet paper roll with small roll that you can carry with you in your purse.
Creativity is everywhere. Such small things that make your product stand out in a saturated market.
Take inspiration from other domains.
Our experience has a negative effect on problem-solving ability.
The more we solve a problem one way, the more we cling to that way of doing things.
That's why we need an alternate source (a second brain) that can feed our brain and enhance our knowledge base.
When room is dark at night it's so difficult to find the door knob. Night light is distracting.
Creativity is solving problem in a way that user can never tell you.
You can use this idea in variety of ways.
Ever struggled for hours to solve a problem, only to have someone walk over and, after a quick glance, point out what you instantly recognize as an obvious solution?
..and good repository to access yours and others notes and ideas....
I strongly believe that if you have access to ideas of people around the world you will do things that you will otherwise never be able to do
People assume that once they get to a certain stage they don't need to learn.
I spent $5000 last year on courses, books, training, apps, and everything that you can think of.
Learn from alternate domains to get breakthrough ideas.