What if creativity isn’t about novelty or usefulness? What if creativity didn’t connect in people’s minds immediately to art, or special skill, or talent? What if, instead, creativity describes freedom? What if, instead of promoting creativity, we encouraged people to express their creativeness; their ability to create, to make new, to make a change?
Even though the WCID April 21 celebration is relatively new, it’s growing, and people are learning about it now that it is a United Nations Day of Observance. Do you think that feeling self-conscious may prevent people from celebrating their capacity to generate new ideas, make new decisions, take new actions and achieve new outcomes …
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Start an imagination practice. George Land‘s 2011 TEDx talk came across my Facebook feed today. I will always remember the class he guest taught. George asked us, undergrads at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, to practice using divergent thinking. Even though we already knew how – he took our capabilities far further. “Write …
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Imagine starting off a conversation at your next meeting during World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15 – 21 with these statements from a Tim Brown, IDEO CEO Harvard Business Review article from November 2016. “All of our management practices need to be updated: how organizations are structured, how we deploy capital, how we interact …
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Would you agree that you are the product of a creative act? For you to exist, two cells connected for the first time in a hospitable environment, and grew. This World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, make new connections. Why? Every person, idea, group, organization, challenge, or opportunity carries a similar cell be it …
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Let’s use our creativity. Let’s use new ideas, make new decisions, take new actions and achieve new outcomes, to make a decent life for all in a sustainable planet. @MohamedSayedSA #globalgoals
I was at our local chamber of commerce informal business networking event last night and invited those present, in 1:1 conversations, to begin planning for their World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21, 2018. Observations: Many did not know about it, and when they learned of the UN’s adoption of the day, paid attention. I …
Isaac Asimov Asks: How do people get new ideas? Isaac Asimov (1920 – 1992) was a professor of biochemistry at Boston and a prolific science fiction and popular science author. He writes that among other things, making new combinations, or cross-connections and feeling self-assured are key to new idea making. Read what he wrote for …
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Greetings all, Today, August 2, is Earth Overshoot Day. Essentially, this is the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. This short video explains what that is and means. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPO2-KCyFvc] On April 27 this year, the United Nations General Assembly declared World Creativity …
There are startling parallels in the lives of Walt Disney and Steve Jobs. Their dedication to product quality and innovation transformed industries. Lessons: Don’t give up Finding the right creative partner can be a force multiplier Betting on new technologies ahead of the curve can be a strong differentiator Perfectionism, if you can survive it, …
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