Taking Notes and Keeping a Diary can be Useful for Sparking Ideas in the Future
One thing I’ve done a lot of over the years is take notes. Whether in meetings or at conference sessions, in webinars etc, I've always recorded the information and added my thoughts where ...
Approaching Things from a Different Angle can Lead to Good Results
Approaching problems from a different angle can often result in solutions you never anticipated when you set out in the first place. For my recent book, for instance, I was intending to put ...
Where I Find the Inspiration for these Daily Short Vids on Patient Recruitment
Several people have asked me recently where I come up with the ideas for things to talk about in these daily videos. With this being the 92nd one, I can understand where they’re coming from. ...
Keeping an Open Mind while Reading and Listening can Help Deepen Understanding
Newsletter and email subscription overwhelm is a fairly common feature of modern professional life. Despite my every so often culling the ones I’m less likely to read, I still find there are ...
It can be Worth Allowing your Unconscious Mind to Come up with Solutions to Problems
While writing my next book recently, I was stuck on a particular element and couldn’t find a solution for driving the narrative forward using the free writing or mind mapping techniques I’ve ...
Mind Maps are Another Useful Tool for Clarifying Thinking and Producing Ideas
Continuing on from the suggestions for no filter brainstorming and free writing, I find a valuable tool for generating ideas and coming up with solutions is to create a mind map. This ...
Free Writing can be a Valuable Technique for Producing Ideas
I’ve mentioned before that I sometimes like to use a ‘no filter’ brainstorm approach for coming up with ideas. And I think this technique is particularly useful when combined with ‘free ...
A 'no filter' Brainstorm can help Develop New and Innovative Ideas and Solutions
After a recent week away from work, it’s been interesting to get back into the swing of things and try to come up with new and different methods of recruiting patients for clinical trials ...

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