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01/09/2017 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning with a Regional Information Center

The South Central Regional Information Center team engages in a high energy, collaborative strategic planning process. “We’re nailing it, absolutely hammering on our immediate priorities,” reports its director. “It’s been an awesome experience for the whole SCRIC team.”

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: consensus, creativity skills, decision-making, visionizing

08/19/2016 by Sean Brady

The life-long toll of I don’t, I won’t, I can’t

The world presents us with incalculable possibilities. Why do we so often reject them in favor of stale habit? Why are we inclined to sabotage opportunities for novelty? Embracing the comfort of the status quo is the scourge. Pursuing the adventure of novelty, the tonic.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, visionizing

07/21/2016 by Sean Brady

Visionize a preferred future

Feel trapped by the circumstances or challenges you face? Need to reinvent your life? Solve a persistent problem? Renew a relationship? Visionizing is a powerful thinking technique designed to elicit transformative strategies and actions. Visionize and create your future!

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, mental models, visionizing

05/23/2016 by Sean Brady

Wise words from a discerning mind

Upon retiring after 48 years on the federal bench, my 94-year-old father-in-law John T. Curtin shares wise words by which to live a rich and rewarding life.

Filed Under: Simply fascinating Tagged With: visionizing

02/15/2016 by Sean Brady

Carlos Santana on your creative genius

Carlos Santana on your creative genius: “Everybody is born with genius…Say to yourself, I am a beam of light from the mind of God and I am capable to create blessings and miracles.”

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, idea generation, innovation, visionizing

12/04/2015 by Sean Brady

Celebrating human ingenuity via Blue Origin

Please enjoy these very short videos, the first documenting a Buck Rogers-like achievement and the second documenting the spontaneous reaction of the 400 cheering Blue Origin rocket scientists responsible for it. Inspiring!

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, visionizing

04/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Improving your leadership team’s decision-making

Decision-making is a key leadership skill. But leaders rarely if ever receive decision-making training. Prism now offers hands-on training in the Eight Keys to Better Decision-making.

Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, cost-benefit, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision criteria, decision-making, idea generation, innovation, mental models, multiple criteria, risk-taking, tradeoff, visionizing

02/23/2015 by Sean Brady

Review of “Eight Keys to Better Decision-making”

“While books like Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow bring theoretical ideas to a mass audience … You Are What You Decide takes a big step towards real-world decision-making showing how anyone can improve their decision-making by adopting a few simple behaviors.”
– Andrew Tait, Chief Technology Officer, Decision Mechanics

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation, implementation, innovation, mental models, tradeoff, visionizing

01/20/2015 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning specifically for a BOCES

Have state and federal mandates drained the energy and passion from your BOCES? Is morale low? It doesn’t have to be that way. Reenergize your BOCES. Retake your future. Reengage, recharge and reinvest your faculty, staff and community. Articulate a new mission, vision and core beliefs. Set strategic targets. Articulate priorities, allocate resources, plan and execute.

Filed Under: K-12 education, Strategic planning Tagged With: Common Core, consensus, decision-making, Race to the Top, school accountability, visionizing

07/17/2014 by Sean Brady

Make better decisions now

“You Are What You Decide is a concise book that distills complex ideas into a straightforward, highly readable framework.”
– Sherm Bodner, President and Publisher, Gannett Central New York Media

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Filed Under: You Are What You Decide Tagged With: assumptions, biases, cost-benefit, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision criteria, decision-making, innovation, mental models, multiple criteria, risk-taking, tradeoff, visionizing, You Are What You Decide

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