The Business of Creativity: Why it matters Assessing the creative spark: TIME (in collaboration with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft) polled Americans about creativity in the workplace, schools and government. Here’s what Jeffrey Kluger, a senior editor at TIME, has to say about assessing the creative spark: Creativity
Read more →A prime reason to incorporate arts-based learning in business and education: The link between the neurobiology of music and language “The brain on arts is different than the everyday brain.”—Charles Limb Charles Limb, a brain scientist at Johns Hopkins is finding a neurological basis for a notion that many people believe intuitively — that music
Read more →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 →Meditate to create: the impact of focused-attention and open-monitoring training on convergent and divergent thinking How interesting! Cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University used creativity tasks that measure convergent and divergent thinking to assess which meditation techiques most influence creative activities. Open Monitoring and Focused
Read more →Adobe Uncovers Global Creativity Gap Adobe has just published a global study on creativity. The research shows 8 in 10 people feel that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth and nearly two-thirds of respondents feel creativity is valuable to society, yet a striking minority – only 1 in 4
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