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Thinking Outside Your Head

Guy Browning

Field of Dreams

Imaginary Dead Baseball Players Live in Cornfield

George of the Jungle

Big Dumb Monkey Man Keeps Whacking Tree with Genitals

Barb Wire

Delicate Orbs of Womanhood Bigger Than Your Head Can Hurt You

Batman and Robin

Come to my Cave and Wear This Rubber Codpiece, Cute Boy

6

Why people don’t try new things

Try something different

Massive disaster

Immediate sacking

Marriage breakdown

Alcoholism

Prostitution

Drug Addiction

Death

Thinking Outside The Box

Thinking Outside The Boxes

A4 paper

© Smokehouse 2012

The Box everyone in business sits in

MONEY

TIME

YOU

PEOPLE

Question the Question

“How do I spend more time sailing?”

“How do I spend less time with my husband?”

“How do I run off with Mike in accounts and make a new life for myself in Leighton Buzzard?”

Tackling Really Big Problems

“You can’t solve a problem with the

same thinking that created it.”

Albert Einstein

(after heavy night)

Different Worlds

THE FAIRLY

GOLDENRULES

Change the Metrics

Mental Mapping

Emotional Space

Mind Your Language

You need a ______ to look after your kids

A ______ will give you peace of mind

Make your dreams come true with a ________

A ________ will look after the complicated stuff

If you value it, a ________ will look after it

BANK

What if?

• China collapses in civil war

• Computer processing becomes male and female

• Privacy returns with personal firewalls

• Dyslexia becomes incurable edipemic

• New number found between three and four

• Human beings can be printed as bar code

“There are no new ideas: only the import of old ideas into new

places at new times.”

Voltaire(very loosely translated)

Process Cheese

• Poor Communication

• Office Politics

• Incompetence

• Laziness

• Fear

• Confusion

• General Muppetry

• Board Level Muppetry

What everyone wants in life

Invo

lvem

ent A

ppreciation

Affection

Things People are Sensitive About

Looks

Education

Accent

Presentations

Humour

Politics

Numbers

Bosses

Car

Clothing

Children

Height

Ethnicity

Creativity

Background

Family

Sexuality

Clothing

Feet

Handwriting

Religion

Taste

Hair

Intelligence

Teeth

Large groups

Efficiency

Detail

Other people

Sales

Nose

Meetings

Bottom size

How to keep people onside

You were rude about my hair

I will sabotage your entire career

You said thank you last time

I’ll work late next time

How to Collect People and Inspiration

1. Decide to give them a damn good listening to

2. Shut mouth and open mind

3. Read the signposts

4. Echo

5. Walruses in the Milk

6. Check Feelings

7. Playback

Thank You

guy.browning@smokehouse.co.uk