This post is part of a series on creativity and project management.  REVIEW You started this workbook by articulating a high-level goal of helping a group of people solve a specific problem using a specific set of tools.Then you developed an idea for a project that could help realize that goal. You gathered feedback from … Continue reading ORGANIZE: The Expansion

This post is part of a series on creativity and project management.  REVIEW We’ve made prototypes and have tested them with a small group of customers. We’ve set a deadline for when we will launch our project to the public. Hitting this goal is something to celebrate. But it’s also a point where the work … Continue reading ORGANIZE: The Launch

REVIEW The TUNING Toolkit has three sections: BELIEVE, CREATE, and ORGANIZE. In the BELIEVE section, we set goals. In the CREATE section, we collaborated and brainstormed. ORGANIZE is the third and last section of the toolkit. In this section, we will think strategically about what to create and how to launch what you create into … Continue reading ORGANIZE: from Prototype to Knowledge

This post is part of a series that fleshes out The TUNING Toolkit – a toolkit that helps people move their ideas forward. REVIEW The TUNING Toolkit has three sections: BELIEVE, CREATE, and ORGANIZE. In the BELIEVE section, we defined our ultimate goal, convincing ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve it, and … Continue reading CREATE: Short Term, Long Term

This post is part of a series that fleshes out The TUNING Toolkit – a toolkit that helps people move their ideas forward. The TUNING Toolkit has three parts: BELIEVE, CREATE, and ORGANIZE. In the last section, BELIEVE, we emerged with a well defined goal. We'll carry that goal into the second section of the toolkit, … Continue reading CREATE: Design With Others

PROBLEM Coming up with ideas for new projects is fun. But sometimes after we have an idea for a new project, we talk ourselves out of it: we don’t have the time; we aren’t qualified; someone else could do it better. Those excuses are often manifestations of fear. And rather than manage that fear, we … Continue reading BELIEVE: Reclaim Your Energy