Shake up your Thinking with Dr Ken Hudson

Enter The Speed Thinking Zone
I have discovered something that I believe can have a profound impact on most people’s loves. It is called Speed Thinking and I believe it is the perfect adaptation for anyone who is caught up in a time-poor existence.
I am so confident of Speed Thinking that I have bet the house on […]

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The business world moves in cycles and I am wondering if we are entering a new era. With the US perhaps in a recession in seems to me that business leaders have pulled their horns in and are cutting back. Here we go again. Short term it makes the numbers look good. But where are […]

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In Australia, the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has just held a two day summit to create a number of big ideas for the year 2020. He invited 1000 of the nations so-called best and brightest to discuss ten predetermined themes.
If nothing else it turned out to be a political masterpiece. There was widespread (largely) […]

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Dear Prime Minister & Professor Glyn Davis.
 
Good luck with the Australia 20:20 summit. It is a great idea and I hope it is a wonderful success. But as someone who helps create breakthrough ideas for a living, I cannot help but feel that you have made some fundamental mistakes. I list these only in the […]

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When faced with any sort of challenge (i.e. a problem, issue or opportunity) I have found that you have two key creative strategies.
1. Try and redefine the challenge and/or
2. Look at the challenge in a new way.
Otherwise you are doomed to repeat a cycle which can only deliver you incremental ideas. For example, let’s imagine that you […]

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This is a story of how breakthrough new products can emerge from the most unlikely of places.
‘After September 11th, one of our researchers, Krishna Bharat would go to 10-15 news sites everyday looking for information about the case. And he thought, why don’t I write a program to do this? So Krishna, who’s an expert in […]

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Just attended another innovation conference. It was a mixed bag but as always there was one special nugget that eclipsed all the other presentations. It came from Brett Jackson, Director of Product Management and Design, from Atlassian Software Systems. This company formed five years ago is one of the world’s fasting growing companies.
For me it […]

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I just came back from the annual American Creativity Conference held for the first time in Singapore where I was one of the speakers. Over 200 people attended from all corners of the globe, the only thing we had in common was an interest in creativity either in business, education or government.
I have listed below my […]

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There are many different types of consultants to business. Most have impressive resumes, have been to the right schools but do they ever tell you anything that you do not already know? Do they ever give you a truly fresh and inspiring idea or insight? Once you have received their long-awaited reported do you ever […]

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The new Prime Minister of Australia should be congratulated for his latest initiative to host a summit of what he calls the 1000 ‘best and brightest’ minds to discuss and create new ideas for the ten most pressing issues facing the nation in the next ten years. There are three conditions that need to be […]

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