Collaboration has become a hot topic lately, and a recent IBM global study of CEOs revealed that collaboration is key to innovation success, especially when collaboration occurs beyond company walls. Projects are often too complex for individuals or even teams in one company to tackle. Collaboration can be a challenge depending on the culture of [...]
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Lisa Canning 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
Using imagination to see multiple perspectives
Learning to pay [...]
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Posted in Creativity on Apr 30th, 2008
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 I [...]
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Posted in Art, Brain, Creativity, arts-in-business on Apr 24th, 2008
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 can [...]
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Posted in Design, Innovation, Leadership on Apr 21st, 2008
One of the highlights of the ACA Singapore 2008 conference, was the keynote delivered by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO / President of The LEGO Group.
He said the purpose of Lego is to help children become creative in an extremely logical fashion. Did you know all ten thousand pieces of Lego fit together [...]
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Posted in Art, Brain, Conferences, Creativity on Apr 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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