Sara Blakely became the worlds youngest billionaire at 41 when she turned $5,000 savings into the fortune making Spanx hosiery business. She offers the following advice to anyone looking for fresh ideas to supercharge the performance of their business of enterprise:

“I stop what I’m doing, close my eyes, and ask myself, ‘if nobody showed me how to do my job, how would I be doing it?’ And then I see what surfaces. We’re all on auto-pilot, and we’re doing things because somebody else showed us  – or told us –  how to do them.”

Blakely says that creative ideas come when you think differently, not necessarily complexly.

I think the key is to look to do things that are unorthodox or different. Do what everyone else does and you get what everyone else gets.