Tag: HocPoker
HocPoker – AVOIDING MARTYRDOM
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” ALBERT EINSTEIN MARTYRPHOBIC RULES Einstein’s talent for breaking rules was not always appreciated. He clashed…
HocPoker – CLAIMING YOUR DUE
“The reward is in the risk.” —RACHEL COHN These ideas for avoiding martyrdom are not new. However, just avoiding punishment for your contribution is hardly…
HocPoker – EINSTEIN THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONS
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takesa touch of genius—and a lot of courage— to move in the…
HocPoker – WILDER IDEAS
“We need to hear some new, wilder ideas about this problem.” ROBERT OPPENHEIMER This chapter contains a variety of seed ideas. As you can see…
HocPoker – NEW SOLUTIONS
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” H. L. MENCKEN You can break your pattern of thinking about a…
HocPoker – NEW CONDITIONS
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” RICHARD FRANCK Conditions surrounding a problem are an essential part of the problem. These conditions include key parameters, roles,…
HocPoker – NEW PERSPECTIVES
“Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.” ALBERT EINSTEIN Everyone…
HocPoker – EVERYDAY EINSTEIN THINKING
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ALBERT EINSTEIN We have been using Einstein Thinking on tough problems that require much directed thought and…
HocPoker – CHANGE – Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change..
Einstein Thinking becomes natural as you open your mind to alter- natives. Change, any kind of change, is a useful hack that can make you…
HocPoker – THINKING TOOLS – Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth
Archimedes boasted that if you gave him a lever long enough and a place to stand, he could move the world. Today we have a…