Creativity and innovation techniques, tips and tools
Dr Shelley Carson has devised a useful framework for developing your creative brain, based on findings from neuro-imaging, psycho-physiological studies, and her own research at Harvard. Carson outlines seven different "brainsets," or mental frameworks, [...]
Richard Diebenkorn: Seawall When I studied art at CCA in Oakland California, Richard Diebenkorn was one of my favourite painters (he still is) and I used to copy his Ocean Park [...]
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. The Progress Principle describes the findings of a multi-year research project that Teresa Amabile and [...]
When it comes to putting creativity to work, the biggest challenge usually isn’t about coming up with ideas, it’s getting those ideas listened to, accepted, and implemented in your organization. That’s why it is [...]
How do innovators come up with groundbreaking new ideas? If it were possible to discover the inner workings of the masters’ minds, what could the rest of us learn about how innovation really happens? [...]
How do you promote creativity to a boss who is averse to creativity? I've been asked variations of this question a few times lately. Here are some tips for encouraging creativity in a conservative environment and getting [...]
How to Converse like Socrates: Guidelines from Socrates’ Way by Ronald Gross and Michael Gelb Until recently, when I listened to an audio-course on Socrates by Professor Michael Sugrue of Princeton University, I had [...]
If you want to see the future coming, 90 percent of what you need to learn, you’ll learn outside of your industry. There is nothing that you can learn from inside your industry that [...]
Seven Habits of Highly Creative People is an homage to Stephen Covey (Oct 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) Make a habit of these seven practices, and you will be highly creative in your [...]
Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work: Available on Amazon Here are some terrific examples of connecting diverse stimuli to generate creative ideas: Excerpted from “Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work” [...]
An Interview with inventor Dr Nakamats by Chic Thompson Nakamats (AKA Nakamatsu) In my country, the drive to succeed-and the competition-is unbelievably intense. From early on, Japanese children are under enormous pressure to learn. I [...]
By Harold D. Stolovitch and Jean-Gabriel Maurice Capital: Any form of wealth employed for the production of more wealth. Human Capital: The sum total of all knowledge, experience and human performance capability an organization possesses [...]
Instructions for Brainwriting By Arthur B VanGundy Brainwriting is the silent, written generation of ideas in a group. It was originally popularized in Germany in the 70s (although it may not have originated [...]
Air Cliché is a fun ideation (brainstorming) tool that will energize your group By Arthur B. VanGundy This creativity technique is the combination of a fun atmosphere, a structured brainstorming procedure, and brainwriting. This [...]
1. CAPTURE YOUR DAYDREAMS Daydreams are fertile ground for your imagination to soar. As you sit absorbed in a problem, notice when you get lost in a day dream. What were you just thinking [...]
By Douglas Eby Life is shaped as much by the future as by the past. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary [...]
By Arthur B VanGundy "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers." —James Thurber New product development uses a three-phase problem solving process common to many disciplines. [...]
Art is an expression of our innate creativity, which is the language of the soul Art is a creative act, a spiritual journey. It is an expression of the soul. Every artist has something [...]
photo credit: JoelMontes How Handwriting Trains the Brain Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas Handwriting is a building block to learning. Using advanced tools such as magnetic resonance imaging, researchers are finding [...]
Does this scenario sound familiar? "Business’s infrastructure is not keeping up with us. That which was supposed to help us now dictates too much of what we can’t get done. Our tools have become [...]
