Yellow Pages
Using artifacts from any Yellow Pages book, groups can combine strange advertisements that drive amazing thinking and creativity.
How to run it
- DGYHUWLVHPHQWV Groups pick the yellow pages ads of two organizations, identify their new opportunities as a combined
- business entity, and create a NEW Yellow Pages advertisement that will carve out their new market The new ad should "stand alone" or be able to be read and understood by anyone
- Groups share their ads with everyone else
- Yellow Pages Timing 15 30 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Using artifacts from any Yellow Pages book, groups can combine strange advertisements that drive amazing thinking and creativity.
- business entity, and create a NEW Yellow Pages advertisement that will carve out their new market The new ad should "stand alone" or be able to be read and understood by anyone After all, it is a Yellow.
- YHQWXUH" Logistics Two Yellow Pages ad for each group.
- to drive the creativity of the participants Each group should have a pen and an 11x piece of paper to draw on.
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DGYHUWLVHPHQWV Groups pick the yellow pages ads of two organizations, identify their new opportunities as a combined
business entity, and create a NEW Yellow Pages advertisement that will carve out their new market The new ad should "stand alone" or be able to be read and understood by anyone
Groups share their ads with everyone else
Yellow Pages Timing 15 30 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Using artifacts from any Yellow Pages book, groups can combine strange advertisements that drive amazing thinking and creativity.
business entity, and create a NEW Yellow Pages advertisement that will carve out their new market The new ad should "stand alone" or be able to be read and understood by anyone After all, it is a Yellow.
to drive the creativity of the participants Each group should have a pen and an 11x piece of paper to draw on.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Yellow Pages. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: DGYHUWLVHPHQWV Groups pick the yellow pages ads of two organizations, identify their new opportunities as a combined; business entity, and create a NEW Yellow Pages advertisement that will carve out their new market The new ad should "stand alone" or be able to be read and understood by anyone; Groups share their ads with everyone else; Yellow Pages Timing 15 30 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Using artifacts from any Yellow Pages book, groups can combine strange advertisements that drive amazing thinking and creativity.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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