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A few people (Steve Jobs to name one) suggest altered states to help one innovate.  The critical issue here is that one does not have to resort to taking LSD to help them see a problem from a different pov.  Innovation is all about change, listen to different music, take a different way to work, read books watch tv shows do everything different from your routine. In essence get out of your rut!  Exposure to sources of information that are normally outside your realm of comfort will lead to innovation.

Productivity tip: Take more LSD?! – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Wired News: LSD: The Geek’s Wonder Drug?

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When all is said and done everything is a design problem, it just depends what language you are speaking, ie accounting, knowledge management, IT, etc etc.

By the way Ideo rocks!

The Power of Design

As Ideo CEO Tim Brown puts it, “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems”