Can you answer these interview questions? Can your ideas?
These interview questions were collected from 14 different employers as their favourites to ask job candidates by freelance writer Jeff Haden for Inc.com What if…. You used these questions, modified as needed, to interview idea candidates for your next great idea. That’s right, pretend your short list of ideas are people. What do you [...]
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What ‘going viral’ looks like
As someone with a preference for information that is concrete, practical, tangible and real, I appreciate Microsoft Labs infographic and 3-minute video describing the power of social network viral: what it is, what it looks like and how to track it moving forward. (Source Fastco’s Infographic of the Day: Watch Microsoft Visualize Viral Content.) In [...]
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The Future by Al Gore: Paradigm Cracker. Why our creativity is important now.
If you are considering what might be next and are open to stretching your thinking a bit, this blog post is for you. I’m reading The Future by Al Gore and am wowed by the synthesis of factors he presents and how they interact in ways we never imagined, nor experienced. It provides fodder for [...]
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How to Lead an Idea Session – from Buffalo State’s International Center for Studies in Creativity
Here’s a gem of a video showing step-by-step how to lead an idea generating session using two techniques: Brainstorming and Brainwriting. Watch it to pick up pointers to improve your practice. (It would be great for all creativity professionals to competently use these and other tools, just as, say, accountants globally use a balance sheet.) [...]
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Does Brainstorming for Innovation Work? Maybe not… when you consider personality style
“Fresh ideas come when your brain is relaxed and engaged in something other than the particular problem you’re embroiled in… This is the polar opposite of what happens in brainstorming sessions. Long showers, soaks in a tub, long walks, or doing chores are frequently when those “synapses” that find alternative solutions to a problem [...]
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What people want from a creativity conference then: is it the same now?
Went through old files over the weekend. Found feedback comments from a 1981 creativity conference I participated in as a volunteer leader. Do you think this is what people want from creativity conferences today, a generation later? An incredibly enriching experience. Answered many questions and created new ones. Challenged my mind, body and spirit and [...]
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Use Flitch Meetings to Bring your Organization’s Silos Together
Flitch meetings blur boundaries between organization silos. Strategic and brave leaders, those with an open mind to innovation and sustaining a culture that supports gaining insights and cooperation through collaboration, use them. What’s a flitch meeting? A meeting where a problem in one area is solved by another department. If you are looking for something [...]
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Enter Your Future During World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21
Imagine your future 20 years from now, when you are rich, powerful, exceptionally accomplished and getting everything you want out of life. The behaviour patterns you use today – will they get you there or might you need a change or two? What’s holding you back, what’s propelling you forward? The context for innovation changes [...]
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Where to look for new ideas – insight from Leonard Cohen
The Future is an album by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. His song, Anthem, provides a strong metaphor for insights into where to look for new ideas. Anthem The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. [...]
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Sweating Your Way to Creativity
Creativity: The ability to bring together disparate ideas in new and useful combinations. You like? I read it in a review of Christopher Bergland’s The Athlete’s Way: Sweat and the Biology of Bliss in Psychology Today. He makes good points about the benefit of ‘sweat equity’ (ouch the pun!) in the creative process. Albert [...]
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