Culture is Key for Innovation and Creativity is the New Economy
The sun rises over the forest outside my window this morning. On-screen are messages from the magic 8-ball of the internet that support innovation and creativity and celebrating World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21 every year – so we can actively collaborate, leveraging our diversity to generate new ideas and make different decisions. [...]
How to Use your Creativity to Spark Innovation – from Forbes, an interview with Tina Seelig
How to Use Your Creativity to Spark Innovation by Dan Schawbel, Contributor, Forbes Tina – Head Shot I recently spoke with Tina Seelig, the author of inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity. Seelig has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University Medical School. She is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the [...]
How to create breakthrough ideas – simple reminders for the front end of innovation
How can you expect to give your best, most imaginative ideas when you feel like a deer caught in the headlights - eyes glossed over feeling anxious, fearful, panic, confused, or downright uncomfortable because on top of everything else, new ideas mean you’ll have more work. It may also mean that you’ll be committing something [...]
Creativity and Innovation: What’s Style Got to Do with It (and does it matter)?
I was invited to speak at the CHRA conference in historic and beautiful Quebec City, Canada. The gathering of Human Resources professionals occurs annually in the fall with hundreds of people in attendance. It was an honour to be asked and a delight to participate. In addition to the giving an interactive 90-minute presentation on [...]
Facilitator or catalyst? Is there a difference when it comes to creativity and innovation?
I learned a facilitator is a ‘guide by the side, not a sage on the stage’ from my college professor and mentor the late Dr. Ruth B. Noller. We didn’t use the word catalyst to describe what we did at the International Center for Studies in Creativity in the 1970′s and ’80′s – no. Facilitator [...]
Why do people say no? Collecting thoughts
I’m often brought into companies who want to overcome hurdles to innovation. They want to move forward and at the same time are reluctant to adopt new strategies and metrics, and to influence new behaviours and attitudes to create new futures. What’s that all about? Time and again the largest obstacle to moving innovation forward [...]
Boomer Creativity may be on the Rise
Our friends at Idea Champions prepared this slide show to prove creativity is available to people who are 50+. If that’s you, a quick flip through will surely put a smile on your face and breathe some inspiration to your soul. Creativity Late in Life
Is a Runner’s High the Same as a Creator’s High?
Getty Images Mishmash contest is on. They are looking for looking fresh talent. Creators. People who can create something new from a mash-up of their content and their own – by making a short story, video art, music video, ad, mini-documentary or spoof movie trailer. Here’s last year’s winner. Got me thinking about a creator’s [...]
Did You Know…why creativity is important for leaders and managers
Organizations that win/create the future are rebels and subversives. They break rules, they cheat. (Gary Hamel, Competing for the Future, 1994). They use creative thinking processes and behaviors to invent exciting futures that are not extrapolations from the past. These three videos peak at what is happening outside of your pc, your household, your company, [...]
Is there a place for creativity in innovation?
Just back from the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Dynamics of Innovation conference in Bilbao, Spain. Its purpose: to support professionals who are influencing changes in business and government through open innovation and collaboration: external, implementation, networks, customers, management, knowledge, intermediaries, approaches networks and technology transfer business models and value ideas and crowd sourcing [...]
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