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		<title>Solo week-long tour of Wales promotes green shoots</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/welsh_tour_flyer_jpg.jpg"><img src="http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/welsh_tour_flyer_jpg-300x212.jpg" alt="" title="welsh_tour_flyer_jpg" width="230" height="212" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-408" /></a>
Some of Wales’ leading names - including the DVLA, Admiral Insurance, universities and local authorities - are playing host to a one man effort to travel across the Principality in one week to banish recession blues and inspire people to become green shoots for an economic upturn.

World-leading creativity expert Andy Green will be doing a one week-long tour of Wales at the end of June (June 29th to July 3rd) where he will be giving inspirational talks to help people be more resourceful, spot opportunities, and harness what he calls ‘Golden Swan’ opportunities in the recession.]]></description>
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		<title>Six degrees of separation, minus 80-95 per cent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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I am a great proponent of networking, viral, social media, and word of mouth communications, in spreading a message and for creating change in the world.
I was fascinated to read over the weekend (FT magazine June 13) about how social scientists sought to recreate the legendary study by the psychologist Stanley Milgram.
In 1967 he asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huddersfield Town FC appoint creativity coach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Huddersfield Town FC has become the first football club to appoint its own creativity expert to help generate new ideas as part of its recently launched development strategy.
The post, which aims to be self-funding through savings and new activities, will see the Club linking up with creativity organization the Flexible Thinking Forum, headed up by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on visit to Darwin’s ‘Big Idea’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just thinking back to the time I went to the ‘Darwin’s Big Idea’ exhibition at the Natural History Museum given my interest in memes and evolutionary theory, how ideas are generated and popularised, and to explore an idea of how Darwinian theory can be applied to the task and challenges inherent in communications practised.
The exhibition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paddy Hopkirk and delivering depression-proof PR</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/news/paddy-hopkirk-and-delivering-depression-proof-pr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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I recently had the chance to meet with rally car legend Paddy Hopkirk - winner of the Monte Carlo rally and still working in the motor industry – while speaking at the Motor Industry Public Affairs Association conference in London last week.
The event was called ‘Delivering recession-proof PR’ where I covered material from my new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The need for a World Hubris Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/news/the-need-for-a-world-hubris-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week in London provided an opportunity to attend a talk held at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, called ‘What has the Gates Foundation done for Global Health?’
The question, highlighted in a recent issue of ‘The Lancet’ (May 9-15), questioned the efficacy of the impact of the mega bucks being spent by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free football tickets and a lecture tour of Wales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 08:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a way of getting free football tickets (if that is your wish) or creating a week-long lecture tour of Wales at about 15 different locations with the minimum of resources (which happens to be Andy Green’s latest wish!)
I am passionate about the power of networks and people coming together to achieve great change.
During a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two sheds a garage- and a lesson for marketing creativity and innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Just seen an advertisement poster for the ‘Daily Telegraph’ on the London underground. 
It featured three unremarkable images of two sheds and a garage.
The remarkable factor is the caption beneath each of the pics, showing how they were the home, the first workplaces of, Harley Davidson, Ikea and Google.
Underneath is a headline which reads: ‘It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do schools kill creativity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration from the Socceroos and the fight for civil rights</title>
		<link>http://www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk/news/inspiration-from-the-socceroos-and-the-fight-for-civil-rights-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles from the Financial Times (April 4) earlier this month provided food for thought.
 
Soccer’s success in Australia
In an article by Simon Kuper he wrote about how ‘soccer’ is fast becoming one of the leading games in of all places, Australia, gaining ground on the indigenous ‘Aussie’ Rules football and the two rugby codes.
 
Two reasons [...]]]></description>
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