Being creative

As with previous, similar exercises, encourage your team to be creative. Like any sound management system, your PSM system probably creates unexpected side benefits over and above those related spedfically to safety performance. For example, the pilot test may have demonstrated that a new system, once installed, enabled the facility to reduce unplanned downtime with better planning and use of preventive maintenance. Or perhaps the pilot test process itself may have helped improve relations between the facility and corporate staff. 

Be creative Early closure and criticism stifle creative thinking. Be willing to set some time aside to explore different and unusual ways to solve your problem. During this time, do not permit criticism of ideas offered. All negotiations can benefit from nonjudgmental creative thinking. 

The presented produce ought to look clean and wholesome and consistent with the organic message. For example, the farmer may be creative with the packaging, using recyclable brown paper bags to achieve a rustic look, or a more sophisticated design to create a more... 

Stanley Shostak We have no alternative to the linearity of reductionism, and I m saying there must be an alternative - let us be synthetic, let us be creative. What is the alternative if you are saying there is no synthesis There must be an alternative that is non-synthetic. 

There is only one value of m - an eigenvalue - that will satisfy a given set of environmental and fuel property conditions. How can this be found We must be creative. We have already pushed the chemical kinetic terms out of the problem, but surely they must not have disappeared in reality. 

You will want to set aside a stretch of time when you plan to study in your designated study place. But you can also be creative and find ways to study for short bursts during your normal routine. For example, if you spend an hour at the gym on the stationary bike, you can read while you cycle. Or you can review flashcards on your bus ride. If you drive to work, you could record some study material on a tape or CD. You could also listen to this tape while you walk the dog. 

Be creative make the diagram as vivid and memorable as possible. 

Another Cohort V interviewee elected to pursue an academic career after an industrial postdoctoral assigmnent. The interviewee commented 1 have much more space to be creative and develop my own ideas in academia. ... 

I just need time to be creative. I have a lot of publishing opportunities which are generated from how I work... If I am this productive with all the responsibilities that I have... imagine what I could do with more time. .. In addition to a heavy teaching load, one year I was on 13 of 15 departmental committees. This doesn t include university committees. This is ridiculous ... 

Finally, when we need accurate predictions of a chemical reactor, we must do the complete simulations by solving the differential equations written at the start of this chapter. This almost always requires numerical solutions. However, whenever we are dealing with complex systems (which environmental and biological population problems certainly are), we must always resort to approximations and intuition. A wrong or inadequate set of approximations can lead to inaccurate or nonsensical solutions, and we must always be creative in our models and skeptical of our calculations. 

To be creative in mathematics, you have to start from a point of total oblivion. Basically, math is revealed in a totally unconscious process in which one is completely ignorant of the social climate. And mathematical advance has always been the motor behind the advancement of consciousness. ... 

If you have enough different kinds of coins, you can create any number of money amounts. Some money amounts are possible with several different combinations of coins. You want to be creative. The standard U.S. coins are used in the problems in this section penny (l[Pg.120]

Using their model or view of the world as a basis for making their own decisions and being creative. 

A creative orientation has to be cultivated by altering one s attitudes, one s state of consciousness . The responsive-reactive orientation is more clearly characterized by the quotations in Box 3.4 than is the creative orientation. The outcomes of being creative are infinitely diverse and cannot be so readily pinned down into a brief caricature. Creative thinking emanates from a different state of mind to that which produces reactive thinking. The creative thinker has a different way of perceiving the world. 

Identifying ideas or problems for action is so much part and parcel of any manager s job that it is easy to take the creative process for granted. Alternatively, when confronted with the need to develop more ambitious or complex ideas, one may fear that one is not up to being creative at this level. You think... 

Roger Evans and Peter Russell (1990) have most usefully dissected creativity into a number of actions while at the same time not losing sight of the need to draw on one s intuition and allow unconscious processes to work for you. A summary of their guidelines for being creative is presented in Box 4.1. 

Ensure that team members have enough time to think, interact with each other and be creative. 

A complex adaptive system has the ability to be creative and thus offer novel solutions to otherwise intractable problems. To preserve this creativity, according to the loM report, a complex adaptive system should have a few explicit goals and be guided by a few simple rules. 

A flavouring consists of a mixture of aromatic substances carefully balanced to convey the right message to the sensory receptors of the consumer. The preparation of such a mixture is a serious matter the soft drinks flavourist, like the perfumer, must be well versed in the technique, be creative and be able to translate ideas into a practical solution. 

The card can actually be studied in two ways. You may ask yourself What reagents will convert alkenes into alkanes Or, using the back of the card What chemical reaction is carried out with hydrogen and a platinum or palladium catalyst This is by no means the only way to use the cards— be creative Just making up the cards will help you to study. 

Divide a sheet of paper into eight spaces. The spaces do not have to be equal in size or shape. Be creative ... 

The essential difference between R D and other functions within the company is that its sole reason for existence is to be creative (see also Section C). Hence any successful R D Manager must be able to manage creative groups. 

Some of the most significant inventions, which seem to have happened by chance or serendipity, on closer examination often prove to have been the results of many years of endeavour and the accumulation of large amounts of data. In other words without the researcher having a goal and a chance to experiment, little would have happened. Why some people can work for years, accumulate vast amounts of knowledge, and still not be creative is another matter. Even the creative individual will under use this talent if the climate and stimulus for it to flourish are wrong for that particular person. Never underestimate the importance of the individual in the process of creation and innovation. 

The desire for companies to be creative in all aspects of their businesses has been paralleled by the arrival of many management texts with creativity in their titles. Just as many others have been written by consultants specialising in teaching or applying creativity tools to a whole range of industries. There are web sites devoted to creativity that are useful resources, having details of books, tools, courses and links to other relevant sites [C-12]. It should be noted that most of the tools in the following sections are now available in software versions. These are known collectively as Creativity Software [C-47]. 

Because of the environmental acceptability and economic attractiveness of waterborne epoxy adhesive, one may confidently predict increased research and development in these areas. New products and applications will continue to develop however, the adhesive for-mulator must be creative in choosing waterborne raw materials and formulating products that meet both regulatory and customer requirements. 

Active participation offers the greatest benefits in terms of enrichment and acceptance of policies. On the other hand, this type of government-citizen relationships is the most difficult to achieve. It is therefore necessary to identify and develop dedicated ways to involve civil society. In respecting the diversity of the regions and local communities, we need to be creative and develop a variety of different communication channels. 

Put your project together. Be creative in your layout. Make sure that all the topics are covered in a logical fashion. Be sure to include input from all members of your group. 

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