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- the generation of new ideas by approaching problems or existing practices in innovative or imaginative ways. Psychologists have disagreed on the nature of creativity. Until about 1980, research concentrated on...
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- New book on Edison coming soon
- The blog 800CEOread gives a thumbs up to a new biography of Thomas Edison, "Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity." It says that the book humanizes Edison in a way previous biographies have not, and calls it "a refreshing way to go about invoking creativity." by Michael Fitzgerald
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box
- The Idea in Brief Imagine attending a meeting at which you and your colleagues have to invent an idea for a new business. The only instruction you're given is to "think outside the box." The task is...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- Leading Clever People
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- Articles 2007-11-07
- Leading Clever People
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- Articles 2007-10-12
- Harnessing Your Team's Creativity
- Everyone has a creative spark, but many factors can inhibit its ignition. Part of a manager's role is to see the spark in his/her people, encourage its ignition, and then champion its success.
- Articles 2007-02-01
- Business Intelligence For A Synchronized Business Management
- Contrary to common perception, creativity can be made tangible, measurable and useable. In terms of measurement, benchmarking and improvement, the first step is to decide on definitions, the second is to decide on methods of measurement and finally, to monitor each measurement for improvement. Definitions of creativity are not elusive....
- White papers 2007-10-17
- Slow Down To Be More Productive-The True Value Of Free Time
- Setting aside "Free" time is another key to increasing productivity. Free time is time for which you have no agenda. Free time is time during which you set your To Do list aside and just see what you feel compelled to do during that time. Free time promotes creativity. Free...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Boost Your Creativity And Put It To Work For You
- There are times when it can feel like you have simply run out of good ideas. This is the classical "Writer's block," and you don't have to be a writer to experience this phenomenon. No matter what you do for a living, your creativity can be one of your best...
- White papers 2007-11-29
- Ten Roadblocks To Creative Success
- To stay competitive in the world of work today, you must use your imagination and creativity. These innate gifts have the potential to give us an edge in business and in life, yet we are often blocked and fail to accomplish the projects we intend to. Creativity is one of...
- White papers 2006-02-03
- Innovation Or Efficiency: How To Balance Creativity And Execution
- All organizations have two objectives: to be profitable and to create the future. The challenge is to be both innovative and efficient. In a complex world, excellence in management is hard enough without managers being pulled in opposing directions. But they are faced with two organizational objectives that are not...
- White papers 2007-11-21
- Creativity As A Business Tool
- Why does a business need creativity? Before answering this question, there is one point that should be made. Creativity, like Innovation is not absolute. Creativity in a business context is relative to the current and previous states of the business and its associated organisational culture. Most people who are in...
- Tools & templates 2006-01-30
- 5 Examples of the Commodification of Creativity That Sound a Death Knell for Art Directors
- Unilever, PepsiCo, Brammo, Glaceau's VitaminWater and Pernod-Ricard have all recently bypassed traditional ad agencies in favor of crowdsourcing or other commodified creative processes. BNET has noted before how free design software on the web appears to be putting professional creatives out of jobs. Here are five examples of the comodification...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Thinking Creatively
- BNET Australia blogger Robert Gerrish discusses straightforward steps to develop and nurture creativity with Deborah Kneeshaw, adjunct faculty member of the Australian Graduate School of Management.
- Videos 2008-08-21
- Creativity and the Role of the Leader
- In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas is an urgent managerial priority. And that calls for major doses of creativity. But many leaders assume creativity is too elusive and intangible to be managed....
- Articles 2009-01-06
- Bogusky: "Creativity May Be a Commodity"; Eyes End of Big Agency Era
- In an interview with a Huffington Post blogger, Crispin Porter + Bogusky boss Alex Bogusky suggested "creativity might be a commodity." The statement is interesting because it shows that he is thinking about what is arguably the single biggest threat to the agency business today: The fact that creativity is...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Does Your Business Have the DNA for Creativity? | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 280; 14minutes 55) Is your business creative? Or are you stuck doing things the same old way, perhaps because finding alternatives is too big a risk, particularly in the current economic climate? Time and time again we see how creativity rests behind some of the world's fastest growing companies....
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Four Essential Elements of Creativity
- Creativity is something that you can turn on at will --- just like a light switch. All you need are the four essential elements of Creativity: Focus, People, Tools and Time. Focus: Find an area of general or specific focus --- finish this sentence:...
- Blog posts 2009-07-05
- Want to Boost Creativity? Move to Another Country
- Did you take advantage of a study abroad program while you were in college? If so, you may be more creative than those who didn't. According to research appearing in the May issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, people who have lived in foreign...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Pack Your Suitcase to Boost Creativity, Study Suggests
- The Find: Need creative minds to help your firm innovate its way out of the crisis? Recent research suggests sending your people abroad may do the trick. The Source: A write-up of recent research on Kellogg Insight. The Takeaway: Hemingway went to Paris, Gauguin...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- BlackBerry the Death of Creativity
- In groundbreaking research over this decade, Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues identified workplace conditions that both foster and kill creativity. Too much time pressure is a bad thing, but just enough pressure brings out the best in people. Another creativity killer: interruption. After being...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
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