Work Innovator Gifts

'He gets his best ideas that way.'

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!'

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

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

ACME INDUSTRIES NEW PRODUCTS DIVISION, 'The best part is, it can repossess itself!'

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

The trend toward less formal offices began to gain steam.

Empty box of ideas

Eureka!

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

'I think the new V. P. of Global Development is here.'

Blue sky thinking

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

'I've found a way to improve on light beer!'

"I can carry more pollen back to the hive that way..."

A balloon seller is selling thought bubble balloons

"Remember when we kicked him off Mars?"

"In my old job we were encouraged to run fast and break things."

'You obviously took my suggestion to reduce stress to the extreme.'

"Yes sir, I'll admit I was sceptical about the whole 'mini-office' concept at first..."

What've you been up to since college, Lemont? Oh, I became a journalist … had a kid, blah blah … but I wanna hear about you, Rudy. Grigori Rasputin. How've you been all these years? How's your Uncle Mort? Are you a Russian spy? Boop boop boop. How'd that stomach-tumble-translator startup you founded in the nineties go? Wait ... what did you say you became? What do they have on President Trump? How's your cat? Boop.

"Looks like our days at the think tank are numbered."

Game changing

"I like this Carl, you've come up with more solutions than we have problems."

"#BeCurious"

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

' A new idea '

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

'Frankly, I'm not sure this whole idea-sharing thing is working.'

Cloud Computing.

Man is successfully leaping over chasm.

Man at work sees in lounge refrigerator, 'Creative Juices'

Do not think outside the box!