by Giles Broadbent | Apr 7, 2021 | Productivity
7 tips on blue-sky thinking we learnt from the way Google set up X, the Moonshot Factory that thinks the unthinkable, then goes ahead and does it Imagine having virtually limitless money. And a taste for revolution. A hunger for new ideas. And access to the best...
by Giles Broadbent | Mar 23, 2021 | Productivity
Don’t worry. The boiling frog is alive and well. It thrives in meeting rooms and email chains of projects, big and small. Here’s how to stop it. To halt any potential tears, I should make clear the boiling frog hypothesis is dead and no more frogs are boiled to...
by Giles Broadbent | Mar 1, 2021 | Productivity
Now there’s a deadline to end of the lockdown this might be your last chance to get your creativity flowing. Here are 9 ideas to help you start. Charles Dickens would write from 9am to 2pm and then go for a walk. JK Rowling wrote mountains of notes about her...
by Giles Broadbent | Feb 23, 2021 | Techniques
You have a brilliant idea for an article. You want someone else to read (and pay for) this brilliance. Here’s how to put together a perfect pitch Pot luck pitching Pitching is pot luck much of the time. Some editors receive hundreds of pitches and press releases and...
by Giles Broadbent | Aug 20, 2020 | Techniques
The screenwriting credits of Shane Black are littered with blockbusters with a twist. So what does the creator of Lethal Weapon bring to a script? Screenwriter Shane Black leaves his fingerprints everywhere. You know him by his works. And those works are...
