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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:50:42 PM
Pretend that you're hosting some friends at your house for dinner. After the meal, you bring out a round cake that you'd like to cut into eight...
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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:48:59 PM
Mark Tigan, civil servant of the village of Winooski, Vermont, was thirty-two years old when the president of the United States called to shut him...
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Shane Snow: Jan 15, 2023 12:39:31 PM
Here's a classic business blunder:
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Shane Snow: Jan 14, 2023 1:55:00 PM
By definition, it's easy to think of obvious ideas.
Shane Snow: Jan 13, 2023 2:00:00 PM
As we discussed in Part 1 of my Smartcuts explainer series on how to use lateral thinking, it's not easy to think differently than we already think.
Shane Snow: Jan 12, 2023 2:06:00 PM
Classic entrepreneurs and inventors tend to talk a lot about "thinking from first principles." But what does that actually mean? And how do you...
Shane Snow: Jan 11, 2023 2:09:00 PM
Part 4 of the Lateral Thinking / Smartcuts explainer series dives into one of my favorite innovation techniques: using strategic questioning to spark...
Shane Snow: Jan 10, 2023 2:13:00 PM
Part 5 of my Lateral Thinking explainer series is about doing what most people jump straight to in Step 1 of a typical problem-solving process:...
Shane Snow: Jan 9, 2023 2:16:00 PM
Part 6 of my Thinking Different explainer series digs into how to run your ideas through the gauntlet, so you can make sure you're coming to strong...
Shane Snow: Jan 8, 2023 2:20:00 PM
The Importance Of Being Multi-Disciplined The conclusion of my Lateral Thinking explainer series. In this episode we explore how to diversify our...
