In a talk on Creativity (from 1991, it seems), complete with Danish subtitling to help expand your language competency, John Cleese talks about “open” and “closed” modes of operating, and the need to move between these two modes to find solutions to problems and then implement them.
For what it’s worth, I found this YouTube video not by looking for it, but by popping off to Guy Kawasaki’s blog looking for his 10/20/30 post on powerpoint pitches, and from that seeing one of his links on powerpoint presentations, and thinking that might be worth looking at, and then scanning down Garr Reynolds’s Presentation Zen blog and finding this. Not terribly on task? But then, how do we find out about the world if we never “go open” and play at things now and then?
There is a connection, of course, with innovation management, but for now, here’s the Cleese video at Presentation Zen. If you don’t have the half hour for the talk, Garr has provided a quick summary of key points, sadly uden den danske.