What's the big deal about creativity?
Let’s face it, people use their creativity everyday, even you. You create mash-ups, make new decisions, use your imagination, combine existing elements into new patterns and relationships and more, and not necessarily because you want to. As conditions continue to change more rapidly than ever you adapt, we all adapt. For example with the growth [...]
read moreCoveting what others have and creativity
Coveting = desiring The 10th commandment reads “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share a version of the sentiment toward coveting. Made me think. Does it [...]
read moreCreativity: Next step (IV) World Creativity and Innovation Week Personal project
It’s day 4 of World Creativity and Innovation Week 2011. Have you seen all the events we know about that are happening all over the planet? You’ll see large and small, individual and group. Some are free. Great variety, no? WCIW touches everyone in someway – it’s purpose is to prepare people for the innovations [...]
read moreStuck on solving a problem? Magnify enthusiam.
Sometimes what always works doesn’t work anymore. Know what I mean? You go about your day-to-day activities quite successfully, then boom, nothing. Nada. Even the most simple of solutions elude you. What to do? There’s help! Instead of asking: What’s the biggest problem here? use, What possibilities exist? Instead of asking: Why am I such [...]
read moreMindsets for enhanced creativity
When engaging your creativity deliberately there’s a general rule of thumb: It’s not about finding the right answer, it’s about exploring the unknown to arrive at new ones. The journey can be chaotic for sure, so here are a few pointers to keep you grounded in your imagination to find new ideas (and stave off [...]
read moreCreativity. What's it all about?
Creativity is good, does that mean that non-creativity is bad? When is it appropriate to use new ideas and new decisions and when is it best to stay with the same-old, same-old? Have you answered those questions for yourself yet? There are many viewpoints on the subject of appropriateness for using creativity deliberately, just as [...]
read moreAre these powerful questions powerful for you?
While cleaning out file drawer today I found a non referenced handout from a conference a few years ago, Powerful Questions. According to the tiny description on the green sheet, the purpose of these questions is to stimulate new knowledge and creative thinking. They don’t work so much for me. It’s hard for me to [...]
read moreBrains, dopamine and gadgets: are faciliation and leadership practices changing?
Great insight into what’s happening to our wired techno-addicted brains from NPR’s program, Fresh Air, describing findings from New York Times technology and telecommunications reporter Matt Richtel. The findings triggered my thinking: is the dopamine squirt that accompanies the immediate feedback from our current gadgetry being accounted for by facilitators and leaders? How much of [...]
read moreCreativity 1 and Creativity 2
Creativity 1: It’s Always There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – Louis L’Amour “Each one of us is a blend of life and death. In the most literal sense, our bodies always contain old cells that are dying and new cells that are emerging as [...]
read moreFacilitating client creativity: who owns the results?
Here’s an example of a client creative process in action. In this clip a designer is meeting with the client group to achieve a desirable outcome. Even though design as shown may not be your discipline, I’m wondering if you have had similar experiences when working with others. Creativity Professionals’ work requires them to not [...]
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