The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. describes the findings of a multi-year research project that Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer conducted to discover
Read more →Things Go Better with Art Coke’s recipe may be a secret, but I don’t mind sharing how things go better with art, when it comes to fostering creativity and sparking innovation. Take 100 engineers and technicians, (or any other work group) tasked with finding innovative solutions to workplace problems; add…
Read more →How Do You Develop Creative Resilience? Join in the discussion at the Philosopher’s Cafe at Unity of Vancouver Date: March 12, 2013 Time: 7:30 pm Place: 5840 Oak Street, Vancouver (On the east side of Oak Street between 41st and 42nd and near the Cambie Street Canada Line.) “Resilience is a reflex, a way
Read more →How Human Ingenuity Arose Fascinating articles by Heather Pringle in Scientific American Magazine, on the origins of creativity: Scientists long thought that early humans were stuck in a creative rut until some 40,000 years ago, when their powers of innovation seemed to explode. But archaeological discoveries made in recent years have shown that our ancestors had
Read more →I recently gave a talk at ProductCamp Vancouver, on the 5 Discovery Skills of Out-Performing Innovators, based on the Innovator’s DNA study by Christensen et al. Have a look at the slides here: What is the “Secret Sauce” of Innovation?
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