Not only do finance people see creativity at the fringe, many in the world of innovation do too – creativity is far too misunderstood which is why I call it simply new ideas and new decisions.

Innovation is different from creativity because it implies there is an economic bucket at the end of the process; not so much with creativity. Creativity can happen without resulting in an innovation and innovation cannot occur without new ideas and new decisions being used and made.

Here at the MITA International Brain Center, we also use music to enhance creativity in our brain based leadership certifications.

I’d like to see more finance gurus use music to ensure that creativity is better sustained financially in our future. It seems to me that we are still adding creativity at the fringe – and paying creative people poorly, while tired or broken systems drain the public purse.

What do you think? Ellen