How to Live a Creative Life infographic
Worthy of a meditative moment to affirm you are on track. Inspires a person to map how each day is a creative one. Like today. What if you mapped out your day like this, eh? How do you suppose it might look? Contest anyone? [...]
In a Brainstorming Quandary? Get over it and get on with generating ideas.
Just saw another newsletter on brainstorming because of our friend Jonathan Lehrer’s assertion that it’s dead. Can we please move on beyond the hyperbole? Here’s the scoop. Brainstorming describes a process of people generating ideas using a few rules. Ad exec Alex Osborn coined the term in a number of books, Your Creative Power: How [...]
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 be Creative in a Society Run by Bullies?
If we teach kids about bullying with the aim of stopping it in schools, then, why do we vote for bullies to run governments? What is Bullying? Using superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants. Toronto’s Mayor Ford called a recent City Council vote [...]
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 [...]
Physical Act of Creativity. Moving helps. Research.
Highlights from new research on body movement and creativity Divergent thinking goals are: to generate many different kinds of ideas, to generate many ideas and to generate brand new ideas (there are tools for these). Greater success occurs in divergent thinking when two hands are used (as in the phrase, on the other hand…) Convergent [...]
Steve Jobs Genius Compared to Einstein – NY Times
In his NYTimes Opinion piece printed October 30, 2011 as The Genius of Jobs, Walter Isaacson compares the genius of Jobs to Einstein, both stalwart examples (and role models?) of propelling the world into new dimensions of experience and discovery. Steve Jobs, he says, “…was the most innovative and successful business leader of our era [...]
What if you looked at decisions as products? Would it change how you made them?
Creativity is about new ideas and new decisions. In this interview, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman says organizations should think of decisions like any other product, and apply quality controls. When I watched this clip I immediately thought of ‘new decision development’ as a deliberate creativity strategy. I wondered how people who integrate new criteria into [...]
For Managers: 10 things NOT to say in the new millennium workplace
Are you or your managers looking for ways to engage people in the workplace? Do you want more creativity on the job day-to-day, are you seeking fresh ideas and new decisions? Businessweek ran a post that might interest you called 10 Things Only Bad Managers Say by Liz Ryan an expert on the new-millennium workplace [...]
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