May this be one of your best creative years ever. Viva!
Category: Insights and Provocations
How to Free Your Innate Creativity
We need to be in the right emotional state in order to be creative — brain functioning affects creativity and how we feel affects brain functioning. But unfortunately, that’s easier said than done in today’s workplace. Here are pointers to stop the swirl of cynicism and negativity – ones that focus on you taking better […]
The Myth of the Mad Genius Debunked
Read full, Genetic Literacy Project original post: ‘Mad genius’ no more: the genetic link between creativity and psychosis is pretty weak
The Importance of Tackling Hopelessness
Why can’t we demand better of ourselves and of our communities to create a place where all life is respected? Source: www.huffingtonpost.ca Looking forward to participating in #hopedecoded on March 27 @banffcentre Let’s inspire hope during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21. wciw.org See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights
Leaders as Social Architects for Innovation: Short video of Harvard prof
Professor Linda Hill knows about leadership and innovation. She is chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has visited and studied innovative companies, from Toy Story creators Pixar to Google, and written several books on the subject. Conventional wisdom suggests the leader in a creative environment has to be a visionary, such as […]
Innovation Is Vital for Your Organization’s Survival: Must-Learn Lessons From Sir Ken Robinson
Innovation is critical to both the success and the survival of organizations, and imagination is the spark that fuels it, Sir Ken argues. Source: www.marketingprofs.com The link leads to his 90-minute presentation to marketing professors on the nature of innovation in organizations. In his presentation, Sir Ken Robinson reveals pivotal think points. These support the […]
The 50 most critical scientific & technological breakthroughs required for sustainable global development | LIGTT: Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies
The main purpose of the 50 Breakthroughs study is to identify where game-changing technologies are most required. The study’s main objectives are to: Foster a thought-provoking conversation about the role of technology in solving the world’s most pressing problems, and focus effort on the breakthroughs that really matter. Provide contextual background for technologists, so that […]
The Rise Of Creativity As A Key Quality In Modern Leadership
By David Slocum To speak of a creative leader, or manager, is for some a paradox: creativity is chaotic and unrestrained while leadership is orderly and controlling, and setting the two together makes for an uneasy, potentially volatile combination. It was not always thus. A century ago, as businessmen entered the 20th […] Source: www.forbes.com […]
The Hard Work of Invention – Annotated Book Review Link
Walter Isaacson, the author of definitive biographies of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, finds that brilliant ideas invariably have a history, and that brilliant innovators are people who know how to build on the work of others to turn ideas into reality. As he puts it, “Only in storybooks do inventions come like a thunderbolt.” […]
