"Sometimes it's just not practical to go through the effort of creating a new solution when an existing solution will …"

"If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in…"

"One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be …"

"But as important as it is to see what's going on, it's unlikely that merely understanding the situation will do much …"

"Unless a potential future incorporates a powerful emotional pull, it will have great difficulty overcoming the gravit…"

"Giving ourselves permission to imagine allows us to access a huge resource of cognitive capacity that we often ignore."

"As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to tha…"

"In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that…"

"When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some wo…"

"The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken."