Curiosity Archives - World Creativity & Innovation Week

Leaders can turn creativity into a competitive advantage, says IDEO's Tim Brown

Business, Creativity, Culture, Idea Stimulation, Imagination / By Contact Creative Foundation

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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NeuroScience of Creativity – Beau Lotto

Leave a Comment / Creative thinking / By Contact Creative Foundation

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 …

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What's the best advice you have been given (or would like to give) regarding creativity? #wciwadvice

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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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Curiosity is an inextinguishable creative spark

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Not even today’s box-ticking managerialists can stamp out our innate desire to know, says Joe Moran Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.timeshighereducation.com Our myths and religions are full of cautionary tales about curiosity. Pandora, Daedalus, Psyche, Orpheus, Adam and Eve, Lot’s wife: they all succumbed to a curiosity that turned out to be calamitous. During the scientific …

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Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite

Leave a Comment / Business, Creativity in organizations, Culture, Employee engagement, Environment, Leadership / By Contact Creative Foundation

We all have the potential to be curious, given the right conditions. And curiosity leads to creativity. ”While curiosity has ignited numerous startup ventures, it also plays an important role at more established companies, where leaders are having to contend with disruptive change in the marketplace. “These days, a leader’s primary occupation must be to …

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Wonder, #wciw 2015 Day Four

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You do not have to journey into the abyss of the Dark Night of the Soul to be graced by wonder. You have to unplug from the disenchanted world and be open to it, to make a space for it and to welcome it. Arising in your senses, coming alive in your imagination, like a …

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Leaders can turn creativity into a competitive advantage, says IDEO's Tim Brown

NeuroScience of Creativity – Beau Lotto

What's the best advice you have been given (or would like to give) regarding creativity? #wciwadvice

Curiosity is an inextinguishable creative spark

Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite

Wonder, #wciw 2015 Day Four

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