Talk with me, talk with me, talk with me
I’m a writer by trade — been doing it for about 30 plus years now. I started out as a journalist (you know, those people who used to work on newspapers before they all started going out of business). Now I run a virtual idea company where I get to connect with amazing people throughout the world to do good and make money. Not a bad job at all.
I also love social media — the ability to touch people in different ways across space and time. Very cool. But at the end of the day, I have to tell you.. I really like hearing the human voice. So lately I’ve been experimenting at www.blitztime.com. I’ve been making presentations and then having little eight minute conversations with other blitzers. I guess you could call it a combination of on-line networking and speed dating.
It also has a twitteresque feel about it since there is this clock ticking and you never have enough time to say what you want especially if you are a verbose person like me who talks in run-on sentences and doesn’t often come up for air if you know what I mean. But that limitation — like twitters character count — also is somewhat freeing. You don’t really need to be a conversationalist — anyone can keep eight minutes going especially on the phone. So try it and let me know what you think. Is it really a new way to connect? Do you get stuff out of it? I’m really curious how it appeals to you.
I is for Intuition. A great idea often comes from the gut. You can actually feel it. After you come up with it, you may figure out all the reasons – the intellectual alibi for the idea. Intuition exists in the unconscious. It is emotionally driven. Children have it by the boatloads, but often as we age intuition gets buried under experiences and knowledge.
E is for Engagement. Big ideas engage. Whether it is designing a process or bringing a new service to market, you have to engage. That means knowing and leading your customer. You can’t have ideas without having a strong engagement factor.
And finally, S is for Simplicity. Ideas that win are simple. Implementation may be complex, but the idea can be stated on one sheet of paper and preferably one sentence. Every idea I mentioned in our Idea Quiz was simple – and the ones I will talk about in a few moments have that same component. You can’t have people embrace a big idea unless it is simple.
