Innovating Gifts

Problem Solving: Man rows desert island to land.

Developing the boomerang.

Daring to be different.

Clam Spearing

'He's got some very odd ideas when it comes to making pay freezes palatable'.

Man sees Creative License Bureau

The Institute Of Innovative Ways To Get Government Grants.

'We've customized our own bendy trolley to cut down on supermarket visits.'

"I had a bold and innovative idea but my boss said it was too disruptive of the organization. He said he likes employees to think out of the box but not too far out of the box."

"He must be new here!"

"Wow, Leonardo! Science, art, inventions... you're a true 'Do lots of different stuff' man!"

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

The Future: "Sorry, but I have to show you an ad now."

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"Young Frankenstein"

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

'Let's not go by the book.'

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

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Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

"You created a robot to do your homework for you? Apparently, laziness is the mother of invention."

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

"What's a patent?"

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

'I told you it would be useful.'

Thinking Gears

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"Technology isn't making me smarter. It's allowing me to be dumb, faster."

"Good" "Bad" "Work on it" "Keep working - maybe it's not as bad as you think it is" "Put it to a committee" "Give up" "Make it worse" "Make it better" "Still a bad idea" "Overthink it" "Throw yourself into a pit of wild badgers" "Throw it away" "Call it done" "Sigh."

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"Waiting for the vaccine launch."

"Actually, I'm hoping what I'm going to be when I grow up hasn't been invented yet."