Clergyman's

“The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken.”
— Tim Hurson

“When you try to generate ideas, think of yourself as a sales person knocking on a whole subdivision of doors. Some won't open at all, some will open a suspicious crack, and some will slam in your face. But the more doors you knock on, the greater your chances of being invited in.”
— Tim Hurson

“If things weren't messy, or getting messy, there would be no discontent, and you wouldn't need productive thinking in the first place.”
— Tim Hurson

“As soon as you establish concrete intention, you begin to notice all kinds of things in your world that relate to that intention. Ideas and opportunities seem to appear from nowhere, almost as though by magic.”
— Tim Hurson

“In my experience one of the most common causes for programs, products, and change initiatives that don't work is that the wrong question has been asked.”
— Tim Hurson

“If you let it, your mind will celebrate new stimuli by automatically making dozens of unexpected connections for you. If you pay attention to them, you may discover the answer you've been looking for.”
— Tim Hurson

“As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them.”
— Tim Hurson

“One of the major barriers to productive thinking is the almost compulsive drive in most business organizations to be right.”
— Tim Hurson

“Even though you may have started out saying you wanted imaginative, novel ideas, the tendency to drift back into the conventional is powerful.”
— Tim Hurson

“In the heat of the moment, it can be all too easy to generate solutions that take on a life of their own, without reference to the core values of the people developing them or those expected to implement them.”
— Tim Hurson

“Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so.”
— Tim Hurson

“We think the more detailed and exhaustive our plans, the more likely the future will actually mirror our vision. But it rarely even comes close.”
— Tim Hurson