A great intro to the rationale for developing creativity∞ as a life skill, delivered eloquently by Dr. Gerard M. Puccio, chair and professor of the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State. This unique academic department offers the world’s only Master of Science degree in Creativity and Change Leadership. As a seasoned alumna of […]
Month: December 2012
New Year Visioning from Dr. Jean Houston – a creative exercise for setting intention
A New Year Exercise to Pave the Way for Galloping Synchronicities The New Year is a great time to reflect. This exercise comes from Jean Houston. If you do the steps be ready to experience strange and wonderful coincidences because it sets a powerful and clear intention and allows your creative and ‘deep mind’ to […]
The Science of Creativity in 2013 – repost from BigThink
Sam McNerny’s BigThink blogpost is bolded for your reading ease. I appreciate the cursory overview and insights into what might be the future for the field. Would be great to hear from others about their predictions of where the study of creativity and methods used to evoke new ideas, new decisions and spur new actions […]
10 jobs being automated at a surprising pace – repost from smartplanet
How fast is change happening? Is it a threat to your work? This post from smartplanet highlights what jobs are going the way of the do-do bird, or, more aptly, it lists how robots are replacing the do-do human. (with Homer Simpson doh-doh realization moments no doubt) Read on. There’s no question that many of […]
Stanford Crash Course on Creativity – Creative Story Telling – Week 7
“Let me tell you a story…” Six great words to start off any presentation. People love stories, and that phrase primes them to pay attention to what you are about to say. Stories draw people in, they bring ideas to life and keep them memorable. According to Tina Seelig, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program […]
The future we’re moving toward? 2 min video and questions
Inventor, author, futurist Ray Kurzweil maps SIX EPOCHS OF EVOLUTION – how the universe stored and processed information over time within each epoch and how that changed. For the epoch coming up, he says technology and intelligence will merge (this bit is already in motion) and merge also with all the matter in the universe. […]
Global Innovation 1000 – Making Ideas Work – from Booz &Company’s R&D Report
Different people use different idea tools which relate to their task according to Booz & Company study of global R&D spending released in Strategy and Business 2012 Winter Issue. Successful innovators bring clarity to a process often described as fuzzy and vague they say. Full report here. On another note The experience of creating […]
Stanford Crash Course on Creativity – Creative Teams – Week 6
Working on teams is hard and worth it. Each person brings his/her own skills, experience, hopes and inspiration for a collective desired outcome. Finding out how each team member thinks, his or her style, is important and can help teams over hurdles to using creative thinking. Personality style indicators help executive leadership teams innovate faster […]
