Is creativity the right thing for everyone? It depends on how you look at it. Creativity is Amoral Mark Runco, a respected creativity researcher and executive director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia also says that creativity is amoral. He writes “…moral action is sometimes defined as …
Greetings all, Happy to share this video with you – it’s the 15-minute Ted-like speech I gave in Buffalo this past fall at the Creativity Expert Exchange in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the International Center for Studies in Creativity, my alma mater. The founding of WCID is shared, as is the tale of …
Imagine your plans are less effective than you anticipated. There’s pressure to perform differently, successfully. Conditions have changed; time now to adapt or innovate. You want to overcome obstacles, use creativity, and creative thinking. You want to access imagination, dream up what could be next, chart a different course, engage interested parties, and marshall resources …
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Scarcity is attractive. Research shows imposed limits motivate people to act: consumers are led to purchase using phrases ‘limited time offer’, ‘ first 30 people get a 30% discount’, and ‘only 100 left’ for example. [Other scarcities such as clean water, nourishing food, arable land, honeybees, and so on are also motivating people to take …
Feel free to use Adobe’s State of Create 2016 Report findings to fuel your inspiration to celebrate and leverage World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, 2017. “With our 2016 State of Create study, we set out to quantify just how much impact creativity has and the results are impressive. Globally, respondents believe that being …
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“What’s the best advice you have been given (or would like to give) regarding creativity?” #wciwadvice Just off a Skype interview with We Are Unstuck in the UK about creativity in organizations. Researcher Amy Rainbow’s questions were intriguing; one in particular struck as a fulcrum for learning. How might you respond? …
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Innovate Brew is a first-of-its-kind program that randomly matches U-M faculty for 30-minute coffee meetings once a month to foster more innovative thinking on campus.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2TC_zlCFhA] So simple an idea. Perhaps an initiative to begin at your workplace for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21? Random coffee meet-ups spurring innovation across …
Flexible work schedules have always attracted employees as they can allow them to balance their work and home lives from a schedule that they can create. Source: www.androidheadlines.com The new implementation, beginning April 13, allows much more freedom in coming and going, with a few restrictions, of course – first, the must work at least …
As World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 approaches, watch Chef Ferran Adria’s creative process as stimulation to consider your own. What practices do you use for insight, illumination, inspiration?
