The interplay of business, art and science
John Cimino of Creative Leaps has devised a quiz based on two lists of competencies. The first is a list that Eliot Eisner from Stanford University developed on how the mind processes art Qualitative relationships in the absence of rules Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal Learning to explore possibilities within a medium [...]
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Rosanne Cash has written a beautiful and eloquent description of her creative process on a New York Times blog: …as I get older I have found the quality of my attention to be more important, and more rewarding, than the initial inspiration. I?ve found that the melody is already inherent in the language, and if [...]
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A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth. The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory ? the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory [...]
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JANET RAE-DUPREE writes in the New York Times: I’M of two minds. As a matter of fact, so are you. And until recently, corporate America wasn’t doing much to take advantage of one of them. But now that we?re hip-deep in what has been called both the Creative Economy and the Conceptual Age, no one [...]
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Tony Buzan, the UK-based inventor of Mind Maps, says “When you train your memory and train your imagination, there is a remarkable increase in concentration, study skills and creativity, while at the same time raising your IQ.” At the American Creativity Assoc Conference in Singapore, he asked us to write down the nine planets that [...]
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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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