What if you wanted to create a decent life for all on a sustainable planet? What if you wanted to innovate a current system to make it happen? What if you were curious about ways to navigate the changes we don’t yet anticipate? What might be your first step? Tell 3 people that April 21, …
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What might be all the ways to leverage World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 in 2018 to advance a decent life for all on a sustainable planet? What new ideas, decisions, actions and outcomes are possible? Global leaders are meeting at the United Nations this week for top level diplomatic talks on the needs …
Your creativity is needed. UN call for more action on 2030 Sustainable Development Goals http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2017/07/hlpf-wrap-up/ Here’s the plan… Use your imagination. Create strategies to help move the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals forward. Action something. Report your progress, achievements, learnings, and next steps for a massive World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 celebration This …
A thought piece on creativity by neuroscientist Beau Lotto. Our brains are geared to make fast assumptions, and questioning them in many cases could prove fatal. If your ancestors wondered for too long whether that noise was a predator or not, you wouldn’t be here now. Everything begins with not knowing. What if you identified your …
On April 19, 2017, Mr. Cameron Westhead, MLA for Banff-Cochrane, Alberta, Canada announces World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15-21 on the floor of the Alberta, Canada legislature. In honour of the week, he highlights the creative and innovative approach the Government is making life better for Albertans. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ptIxharTU] Thank you for your leadership, …
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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 …
Some people ask for advice on what to do for their World Creativity and Innovation Week 2017 (April 15-21 every year). “Hm. I’m not sure.” I often reply. Then I ask questions like these. What might you do? What opportunities present themselves? What pet peeves would you like to solve? What would you like to …
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WCIW April 15-21 was founded in 2001 using the following principles as guides. The week begins on Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday April 15 and ends on World Creativity and Innovation Day, April 21 every year. Its purpose is to provide time to allow, encourage and enable new thinking to create new futures; to make the …
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? …
