How to persevere beyond the ‘no’ when proposing ideas for new futures

People say no to new ideas because the new ideas do not fit what is current and understandable.  What exists is easy; change requires an effort. People say no at the drop of a hat, without thinking.  It’s a knee jerk reaction (see the exercise below the table for an example). Creativity = new ideas, […]

Future of Money – Spark New Ideas?

World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-25 – what a week that was!

Greetings all, Likely you are aware of my involvement with World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, (WCIW) as its founder in 2001 and steward.  Each year around this time my attention goes 100% (and then some friends would say) to support the energy, and shake the bushes so that everyone on the planet feels […]

Creativity Wheel – Assess your creativity capacities for #WCIW

I like this graphic because it highlights the ‘people’ side of creativity – feelings, actions, and behaviours. When coupled with different tools and techniques, new ideas, new decisions and new actions are very close indeed. Want to assess your creative capability during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21? Plot yourself, and perhaps […]

PechaKucha 20×20 – Toronto – Vol. 23 – World Creativity + Innovation Week

World Creativity & Innovation Week is an annual 7 day celebration established in 2001. Similar to PechaKucha, it started as a grassroots initiative in Toronto by Marci Segal and has organically expanded to some 46 different countries to date. PechaKucha Night Toronto is excited to be collaborating with WCIW, celebrating creativity and innovation on April […]

What Exactly Happens When You Have A Creative Idea

  See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights What is a creative idea? A mystical gift from your God? The discovery of something new? A profound insight of almost spiritual proportions? An irritant to rational thinking? A creative idea can be any of these things.       Marci Segal, MS‘s insight: Thanks to […]

How education won’t be in the future

Quick. What is one small thing you can do to influence education so that everyone wins? Yes, you can. Marci Segal, MS Creativity and Change Leadership. Freeing leaders thinking so they can create new futures. Creativity expert, speaker, author, consultant.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]