The innovation age began in 1972; people born then have important innovation roles
In 1972, forty-one years ago, the Blue Marble, a famous photograph of the Earth was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft, at a distance of about 45,000 kilometres (28,000 mi).º It was the first time we saw our planet from space. That same year Bhutan instituted Gross National Happiness (GNH) and not Gross National Product (GNP) as a sign of well-being, an alternate view of what success means.
People born in that era appreciate opportunities to enliven new ideas, make new decisions and take new actions. Ones that engage people to support, sustain and enable life and vitality to flourish. Innovation is in their blood. World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 can be used as a time to open the door for that expression and to act on visions, hopes and future dreams.
Watch this brief video for an insight into an innovation-era world view. Have you others to share?
Marci Segal, MS. Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
Image: Ron Chapple/Getty Images
1. Low employee engagement survey scores.
Employees have good intentions going into work, only to have them sour with disappointment because their needs aren’t being met (see Fast Company’s Gallup’s Workplace Jedi On How To Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem). Estimates from the Gallup report on Employee Engagement say actively disengaged employees cost the U.S. between $450 billion to $550 billion each year in lost productivity. They also say that less engaged employees are more likely to steal from their companies, negatively influence coworkers, miss workdays, and drive customers away. Makes me wonder…In what ways might employee disengagement influence innovation and the use of creative thinking methods to drive new growth in organizations?
2. Student learning is based on a dominant model of public education fundamentally rooted in the industrial revolution that spawned it, when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. Today’s MOOC’s are little different.
Not conversation and not engagement (see Wired’s How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses). Learning scientists have known for decades that getting students to talk to each other, while they are learning, results in better learning. (Sawyer, R. K. (2006). The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge University Press.)
3. Over the years, students learn to drop their eyes when a teacher, and later their boss, asks a question.
Adults are accustomed to playing intellectual-hide-and-seek, a game they learned in school when teachers respond to questions in ways that diminish and punish original thinking, curiosity, and playfulness (see this blog Intellectual Hide-and-Seek Taught in Schools).
Even though creativityland inc leads/facilitates a variety of programs that inspire new thinking and new actions, systems in organizations that evolved to sabotage new insights exist.
There are ways to overcome these hurdles, and there are paths that beckon the bold, those who are willing to explore and (possibly) take on a bruise or two as consequences of being different.
Are you bold? What are ways you open the doors for new thinking that show you mean it?
Marci Segal, MS
Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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There’s no going back now, only forward. New ideas, new decisions, new actions.
World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, 2014. May it launch you forward, and us all, in new directions towards realizing dreams of what’s possible.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, 2014. May it launch you forward, and us all, in new directions towards realizing dreams of what’s possible.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/12/tech/innovation/voyager-solar-system/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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If you feel like you know “how creativity REALLY works” don’t read this article – it might kill your vibe.
A nice step back from all the creativity-hype. No empty calories here.
See on www.creativitypost.com
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg shared some questionable advice on how to become successful at work: Don’t go to the bathroom.
If you don’t take breaks there’s a chance your creative ideas will stay submerged. Here are some famous folk and their practices for flashes of insight.
See on m.huffpost.com
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Feel like you lack imagination? Know this: Everyone can be more original–it just takes practice.
Keith Sawyers new book is reviewed here. Lists many techniques for creative thinking. See how many of these you already know and use.
See on www.inc.com
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Bradbury, Eames, Angelou, Gladwell, Einstein, Byrne, Duchamp, Close, Sendak, and more. “Creativity” is one of those grab-bag terms, like
Everyone has a personal understanding of creativity – be it visceral, intellectual, or spiritual. This collection of quotes shows differences of experience of creativity among famous people and all of them are correct. Two questions for you. 1- what is your personal understanding of creativity? 2 – what are the threads that run though the definitions shared in this blogpost?
See on www.brainpickings.org
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The packaging on these products is inspirational. Need a little break from your routine? Take a look at these.
Fresh package design ideas – a great collection to leaf through for inspiration, to break out of the box. Thanks to Kimberly March Huffman for the link.
See on psycho1.likes.com
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The Sifter spent last night poring over hundreds of famous and inspirational quotes on creativity. Below is a collection of our 15 favourites. Let us know which ones resonate with you…
There’s something for everyone here – Everyone! Thanks for the link Gregg Fraley.
See on twistedsifter.com
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