1. Exercise: List Best & Worst Ideas
Ziya G. Boyacigiller
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Boyacigiller who was leading Angel Investor and a loved
mentor to many young entrepreneurs in Turkey. We have
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Ziya Boyacigiller’s contributions to the start-up Ecosystem
of Turkey, please go to www.ziyaboyacigiller.com
2. BEST idea & WORST idea
Form groups of 3 students
You have 10 minutes to generate as many
ideas as you can to solve the problem on the
board, and then write your BEST idea on a
piece of paper, and your WORST idea on
another piece of paper.
Hand me all the BEST ideas.
3. BEST idea & WORST idea
Go back to your initial groups
You have 5 minutes to improve
someone else’s WORST idea so it
becomes a GOOD idea…
Class will vote to choose the most
successful group.
4. Points to Take Away
Even the worst ideas can be turned into good ones
There are “no bad ideas” or “impossible tasks”.
Ideas are not just good or bad, with the right
mindset you can look at most ideas or situations and
find something valuable to do.
It is better not to do what is an “automatic next
step” but to stop and look for creative options.
