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Hub You - Be Creative: 10 Easy Steps To Increase Your Confidence, Creativity and Cash In The Attention Economy
So who wants to learn to type? You! Here's a fun article to give you some incentive to give it a try. Touch typing software doesn't bite. ouch!! my computer does though - it's jealous... So you're thinking... hmmmm touch typing software, what's in it for me? How long does it take to learn to type?Typing Software - Learn To TypeTyping software helps people that want to learn to type fast as they read. You will learn to touch type without looking down at your keyboard. This improves your writing as you focus what you have to say and type fast to get the job done quick. It' takes about ten hours or so to learn how to type 70 words per minute. Once you learn to type fast , you'll wonder "Why did it take me so long to learn to type?Email Headaches? - Learn T
Howkins compares the examples of two brilliant men, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee. Gates protected his idea and is now the wealthiest man on the planet. Berners-Lee didn't and yet his invention has changed the way we communicate.
5. The Abilit
Ebooks have become a very common commodity on the Internet. You can now download ebooks from many different websites and you can even visit an ebookstore to find these information products. Ebooks are hot sellers because today’s computer savvy generation spends a great deal of time reading ebooks for learning and enjoyment purposes. Some in the book industry have even begun to predict that ebooks may make traditional printed books obsolete within the next 20 years. If you have an online business or if your are thinking of starting one, you may want to consider creating and selling informational ebooks on your website. Sound intimidating? It’s really not. Ebooks are generally shorter and easier to create than the traditional book. They are also much less expensive to produc
In Australia at the moment we are celebrating the Australian Innovation Festival.
This years theme is Innovation and You.
The festival was established to celebrate the best in Australian innovation.
According to the official brochure innovation can be defined as "a process that transfers ideas through business activity into saleable goods, processes and services".
I have been proud to present a range of seminars as part of the festival and attend the official launch.
I was impressed by guest speaker, John Howkins who is a leading figure in global communications, media and entertainment. I'm currently reading his groundbreaking book The Creative Economy.
As I sat, listened and then reflected on his presentation, here is my analysis distilled down into my Top 10 Tips:
1. Create a Confidence Culture. Don't rely only on your own individual talent to have and implement ideas. When you have ideas you need to convince people to invest in those ideas. This relies on your confidence and ability to persuade people to turn a dream into reality. If you're not confident in your idea how can you convince others to invest time, money and resources in it?
2. Sit and Think and Look and Question. The best answers to problems are solved by observation, analysis and insight. Take time out to practice these too often lost skills. Appreciate time working on your own. As Dr Karl Kruszelnicki says in his IQ case study on Nobel Prize Winners (who by the way have normal IQs around the 120 mark), "its not the answers that get you to the blue hall, but the questions!"
3. Attitude. Ideas are available to anyone. All you need is your brain because it is made up of perceptions and memories which form inherited ideas. Put the priority on ideas rather than data. In our democratic and populist societies, we're seeing the rise of the individual. Be an individual to stand out from the crowd and nurture your uniqueness, but also be a team player. This unique combination is essential for success.
It is a credo I live by. Framed hanging on the wall in my office in a prominent position is a poster with my logo and this message:
"OUR CORE VALUES. The following values are actively fostered, encouraged and central to the way we do business: Creativity Excellence Service Teamwork"
Have an attitude, live it and be consistent.
4. Be Competitive and Tough. The barriers of entry for new ideas are extremely low, even non-existent. You need to outsmart your competition and understand patents, copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property laws that protect ideas. What business is about, is not the technology, but about ideas and the application and protection of ideas.
Howkins compares the examples of two brilliant men, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee. Gates protected his idea and is now the wealthiest man on the planet. Berners-Lee didn't and yet his invention has changed the way we communicate.
5. The Ability
Nowadays we are constantly bombarded with information, from the radio when we get up in the morning, via day-time and evening TV, as well as our daily newspapers and an increasing variety of magazines. Then we have the internet at work, college or home and street advertising and our mobile phones as we travel. As technology advances, the amount of knowledge we need to possess in order to keep up with our lives and our careers grows at an alarming rate.How can we possibly cope with the huge volume of information needed just to stand still, never mind to move forward? Although audio and video are increasingly popular as means of disseminating information, reading is still one of the major routes to acquiring knowledge.All of us have to study at some point in our
As I sat, listened and then reflected on his presentation, here is my analysis distilled down into my Top 10 Tips:
1. Create a Confidence Culture. Don't rely only on your own individual talent to have and implement ideas. When you have ideas you need to convince people to invest in those ideas. This relies on your confidence and ability to persuade people to turn a dream into reality. If you're not confident in your idea how can you convince others to invest time, money and resources in it?
2. Sit and Think and Look and Question. The best answers to problems are solved by observation, analysis and insight. Take time out to practice these too often lost skills. Appreciate time working on your own. As Dr Karl Kruszelnicki says in his IQ case study on Nobel Prize Winners (who by the way have normal IQs around the 120 mark), "its not the answers that get you to the blue hall, but the questions!"
3. Attitude. Ideas are available to anyone. All you need is your brain because it is made up of perceptions and memories which form inherited ideas. Put the priority on ideas rather than data. In our democratic and populist societies, we're seeing the rise of the individual. Be an individual to stand out from the crowd and nurture your uniqueness, but also be a team player. This unique combination is essential for success.
It is a credo I live by. Framed hanging on the wall in my office in a prominent position is a poster with my logo and this message:
"OUR CORE VALUES. The following values are actively fostered, encouraged and central to the way we do business: Creativity Excellence Service Teamwork"
Have an attitude, live it and be consistent.
4. Be Competitive and Tough. The barriers of entry for new ideas are extremely low, even non-existent. You need to outsmart your competition and understand patents, copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property laws that protect ideas. What business is about, is not the technology, but about ideas and the application and protection of ideas.
Howkins compares the examples of two brilliant men, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee. Gates protected his idea and is now the wealthiest man on the planet. Berners-Lee didn't and yet his invention has changed the way we communicate.
5. The Abilit
Secured loans are gaining tremendous popularity in the UK financial market in recent times. Secured loans UK are given by the lenders against the equity of the collateral placed by the borrower. Generally, the amount of loan dispensed can be up to 80 percent of the collateral’s value. However, in some cases, it can go up to 125 percent. With secured loans UK, one can borrow a maximum of ?250,000. Though, this amount is variable among lenders.There are several advantages to secured loans. One is the large amount one can borrow with this loan type. A substantial sum of money can facilitate a lot of benefits, like consolidating a big amount of debt, buying a car, purchasing a house etc. Another big factor for more and more people inclining towards secured loans i
2. Sit and Think and Look and Question. The best answers to problems are solved by observation, analysis and insight. Take time out to practice these too often lost skills. Appreciate time working on your own. As Dr Karl Kruszelnicki says in his IQ case study on Nobel Prize Winners (who by the way have normal IQs around the 120 mark), "its not the answers that get you to the blue hall, but the questions!"
3. Attitude. Ideas are available to anyone. All you need is your brain because it is made up of perceptions and memories which form inherited ideas. Put the priority on ideas rather than data. In our democratic and populist societies, we're seeing the rise of the individual. Be an individual to stand out from the crowd and nurture your uniqueness, but also be a team player. This unique combination is essential for success.
It is a credo I live by. Framed hanging on the wall in my office in a prominent position is a poster with my logo and this message:
"OUR CORE VALUES. The following values are actively fostered, encouraged and central to the way we do business: Creativity Excellence Service Teamwork"
Have an attitude, live it and be consistent.
4. Be Competitive and Tough. The barriers of entry for new ideas are extremely low, even non-existent. You need to outsmart your competition and understand patents, copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property laws that protect ideas. What business is about, is not the technology, but about ideas and the application and protection of ideas.
Howkins compares the examples of two brilliant men, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee. Gates protected his idea and is now the wealthiest man on the planet. Berners-Lee didn't and yet his invention has changed the way we communicate.
5. The Abilit
Those whose business it is to do PR have invested greatly in their craft. Those who buy PR services need them to convey to their audience what they want them to hear. The audiences who are subject to the PR strategies allow themselves to be sold or not based on the effectiveness of such campaigns.In effect PR is part of the fabric of our lives.My question is: whatever happened to simply being open and honest?Well that would put the PR people out of job. It would make the consumers of PR feel exposed and uncomfortable. It would make the audience of PR dubious about the credibility of those they are listening to.So it seems that everyone wants to live in the fantasy that PR can create rather than live in the truth of what is really going on.
It is a credo I live by. Framed hanging on the wall in my office in a prominent position is a poster with my logo and this message:
"OUR CORE VALUES. The following values are actively fostered, encouraged and central to the way we do business: Creativity Excellence Service Teamwork"
Have an attitude, live it and be consistent.
4. Be Competitive and Tough. The barriers of entry for new ideas are extremely low, even non-existent. You need to outsmart your competition and understand patents, copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property laws that protect ideas. What business is about, is not the technology, but about ideas and the application and protection of ideas.
Howkins compares the examples of two brilliant men, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee. Gates protected his idea and is now the wealthiest man on the planet. Berners-Lee didn't and yet his invention has changed the way we communicate.
5. The Abilit
The entire nation and a global-viewing audience focused on the U.S. Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina dealt an unimaginable blow to New Orleans and cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. More than a thousand people lost their lives, entire neighborhoods disappeared and many businesses are gone forever, after one of the worst storms in history decimated the region.Three weeks later, predictions of massive destruction again filled the airways as Rita, a potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane, took dead aim on Galveston/Houston. And so it was that at 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 22nd, my wife, three kids, one Golden Retriever and I joined two million others on the roadways in the largest evacuation ever of a metropolitan area. Our normal four-hour dri
Howkins compares the examples of two brilliant men, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee. Gates protected his idea and is now the wealthiest man on the planet. Berners-Lee didn't and yet his invention has changed the way we communicate.
5. The Ability To Change People's Mind. Being part of the creative economy is about changing people's minds. If you want your ideas to be taken seriously, you need to have outstanding persuasion and influence skills.
6. Learn Endlessly. Ideas are about doing something different and better. Borrow. Innovate. In beautiful Perth where I live, as well as the low cost of living, stunning lifestyle and great weather - we have another advantage. I call it the isolation, ideas and innovation factor. We live in the most isolated city in the world and this is both a negative and positive. The positive is remoteness breeds creativity. When you stop learning, you stop being creative.
7. Excel In The Attention Economy We now live in an economy where creativity, the media and entertainment dominate. It seeps into every crease, fold and cranny in our lives. Learn to excel in this economy. Understand the pressures and the principles of living in this age.
I call this a time when the Three C's of Change are on the increase:
Chaos, Clutter, and Competition Chaos - Our lives are getting busier and busier and more and more chaotic as we sift through the masses of information coming at us.
Clutter - This mass of information is getting held up, like grains of sand in an hourglass, and the sheer volume is cluttering up our lives and decision-making processes.
Competition - It is an increasingly competitive marketplace now, with me too brands, look at me brands, and global brands dominating the marketplace. It is increasingly difficult to be truly unique and standout from the crowd.
8. To Make A Mistake Is Not To Fail. There's a well-known saying along the lines of "a mistake is only a mistake if you don't learn from it". The rate of failure is high within an economy built on ideas. That failure can be at a personal, company or even Government policy level. Learn how to deal with failure and manage it. Traditionally bureaucrats have focussed on policy and businesses avoid risk.
When a senior executive at the ABC, I always found this a challenge as a manager. A delicate balancing act was required to encourage creativity to make good programs on the one hand, while working within a dinosaur-like, bureacratic, public service culture where policy and process dominate. I learnt the hard way there is an unstable relationship between creativity, innovation and bureacracy. You can read a full article about these challenges originally published in The West Australian newspaper in November 20
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