Just in time for planning your World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 celebrations… a few reminders of actions you can take, some small, some larger, to refresh your thinking to create new futures. Learn more about unlocking your creative genius and infographic design from Lemonly.
Montreal, Jan 28 (IANS) When it comes to the creative juices, some people have a faster flow than others as creativity is closely tied to culture, new research at the Concordia University has found. The study compared nearly 300 individuals from Taiwan, a collectivist society, and Canada, a more individualistic country. Individualists displayed greater overconfidence,”said …
Source: www.kaust.edu.sa A story about the message of creativity one speaker from the US is delivering to students in Saudi Arabia. I’m wondering about potential cultural differences between the speaker and the students. Your opinion?
Whether or not creativity can be taught is still a contested question, though it really shouldn’t be. Source: www.artshub.com.au Creativity = new ideas, new decisions, new actions. Think that can be taught?
By David Slocum To speak of a creative leader, or manager, is for some a paradox: creativity is chaotic and unrestrained while leadership is orderly and controlling, and setting the two together makes for an uneasy, potentially volatile combination. It was not always thus. A century ago, as businessmen entered the 20th […] Source: www.forbes.com …
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We are certain that creativity is key to unlocking the mysteries of data and making it more tangible. A group of artists, technologists, designers and data experts were brought together to rethink, experiment and prototype solutions using environmental data gathered by our tools. Together, we’ve been exploring how to communicate the stories that environmental data …
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Walter Isaacson, the author of definitive biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, finds that brilliant ideas invariably have a history, and that brilliant innovators are people who know how to build on the work of others to turn ideas into reality. As he puts it, “Only in storybooks do inventions come like a thunderbolt.” …
As well as good ideas for inspire innovation – these are great engagement sparkers for WCIW. What might you do during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 to experience creativity and enliven innovation?
Management thinking is in a rut. This is a harsh thing to say, but it must be said. Despite all the great brainpower being applied, the field of management is failing to provide the empirical, grounded, actionable guidance that organizations require in today’s economy. Most of what passes for novel thinking […] Source: www.forbes.com Appreciate …
The theory of disruptive innovation was invented by Clayton Christensen, of Harvard Business School, in his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. Mr Christensen used the term to describe innovations that create new markets by discovering new categories of customers. They do this partly by harnessing new technologies but also by developing new business models and exploiting …
