Creativity
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How Recruiting iPhone Designers is Like Raising Kids
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When two of the really amazing thinkers I admire — Ken Bain and Jeanne Liedtka — both say they admire Carol Dweck, I figure it’s time to figure out who Dweck is. Her latest book, Mindset, provides some fascinating psychological support for the power of play and prototyping, as she says… People who believe in…
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Is Play Important?
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Business design people talk a lot about the importance of play at work, the sort of improvisation that — because it is both fun and challenging — encourages us to persist at an activity by generating new ideas. Robin Marantz Henig’s recent essay in the New York Times, Taking Play Seriously, focuses on the scientific…
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The Berlin C-School
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The Berlin School of Creative Leadership sounds fascinating… By bringing together top creative executives and international leadership experts, the Berlin School will pave the way for new standards in communication and leadership, fostering global discourse on creative leadership in entertainment, journalism, media, advertising and marketing. At its heart is the Executive MBA in Creative Leadership,…
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Jibbajabba Website Porn
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If you ever need a little online design inspiration, check out the screens that Michael Angeles captures so lovingly…
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The new posters
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A bit of fun for Monday morning: AMPs – Alternative Motivational Posters, office art for the other side of your brain. I like Focus
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Creativity, logic and hindsight
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Edward de Bono on the interaction between creativity and logic: …every valuable, creative idea will always be logical in hindsight. If an idea were not logical in hindsight, then we would never be able to appreciate the value of the idea. The idea would remain valueless. So we are only able to appreciate those creative…
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The essence of brainstorming
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“The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. ” — John Cleese
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Where creative thinking meets critical thinking
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In all the bruhaha on business innovation and creative thinking, the focus is often on new ideas, and by extension how different the ideas are. I very rarely see an important dichotomy represented, that of developing ideas that work both inside and outside the organization. In companies, this translates into making money while also serving…
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Creative problem solving techniques
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FC Now lists a few creative problem solving techniques.