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Today just has that feel about it. I can tell it’s going to be a cool one, so why not add to the coolness with another round of 5 Cool Things?

Cool Thing #1: 7 Ways to Do Great Work

Michael Bungay Stanier, creator of the popular 8 Principles of Fun video, has done it once again. He’s opened up his Box of Crayons and colored outside the lines in order to help us think differently about the work we do.

Stanier says there are three types of work: bad work, good work, and great work. Of course, it’s the latter he thinks we should be focusing on, and he’s put together a nice presentation of 7 ways to do so, most of them counterintuitive.

Check them out and start thinking about your work in great new ways.

The Presentation: 7 Ways to Do Great Work
The Presenter: Michael Bungay Stanier

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The Wisdom of Wite-Out: How to Make Something New by Taking Something Away

January 21, 2010

Can you make something by erasing something? I thought of this while listening to a recent episode of Poetry Off the Shelf. The host and his guest were discussing erasure poetry. It works like this. You take an eraser, a marker, or a bottle of Wite-Out and selectively eliminate words from a piece of writing [...]

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Creativity and the Value of Pointless Exercise

December 9, 2009

Winter’s coming and I’m a cold weather wimp so I’ve moved my daily jog indoors. To the untrained eye, my time on the treadmill would appear pointless, as would the pushups and curls and crunches. Running in Place Gets Me Somewhere Aboard the treadmill, I’m going nowhere, and, in my case, nowhere slow. The work [...]

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Thinking Inside the Box: The 5 Things Exercise

September 2, 2009

Imagine you just found out you had to move, and quick. Really quick. And you only had time to pack one box, and you could only pack five things. Wait. Not so fast. Let’s think about this, because there’s something else you need to consider. This is What You Have to Work With The five [...]

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