Boomer Creativity may be on the Rise

Our friends at  Idea Champions prepared this slide show to prove creativity is available to people who are 50+. If that’s you, a quick flip through will surely put a smile on your face and breathe some inspiration to your soul. Creativity Late in Life

Is a Runner’s High the Same as a Creator’s High?

Getty Images Mishmash contest is on. They are looking for looking fresh talent. Creators. People who can create something new from a mash-up of their content and their own – by making a short story, video art, music video, ad, mini-documentary or spoof movie trailer. Here’s last year’s winner. Got me thinking about a creator’s [...]

Physical Act of Creativity. Moving helps. Research.

Highlights from new research on body movement and creativity Divergent thinking goals are: to generate many different kinds of ideas, to generate many ideas and to generate brand new ideas (there are tools for these).  Greater success occurs in divergent thinking when two hands are used  (as in the phrase, on the other hand…) Convergent [...]

Steve Jobs Genius Compared to Einstein – NY Times

In his NYTimes Opinion piece printed October 30, 2011 as The Genius of Jobs, Walter Isaacson compares the genius of  Jobs to Einstein, both stalwart examples (and role models?) of propelling the world into new dimensions of experience and discovery. Steve Jobs, he says, “…was the most innovative and successful business leader of our era [...]

What if you looked at decisions as products? Would it change how you made them?

Creativity is about new ideas and new decisions. In this interview, Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman says organizations should think of decisions like any other product, and apply quality controls. When I watched this clip I immediately thought of ‘new decision development’ as a deliberate creativity strategy. I wondered how people who integrate new criteria into [...]

For Managers: 10 things NOT to say in the new millennium workplace

Are you or your managers looking for ways to engage people in the workplace?  Do you want more creativity on the job day-to-day, are you seeking fresh ideas and new decisions? Businessweek ran a post that might interest you called 10 Things Only Bad Managers Say by Liz Ryan an expert on the new-millennium workplace [...]

Dilbert on Creativity

Qualities of Creative Individuals – care to do a self-assessment?

Here’s an oldie and goodie. This list of characteristics is excerpted from “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention”  by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, 1996, who is a noted researcher on happiness and creativity. Creativity assessment:  You can use his descriptors as a checklist to see which apply to you. Creative individuals have a great [...]

Original Thinkers: What qualities? Dr. Mark Batey, Manchester Business School

Why do people write books? What’s next?

Excuse me for grappling with this dilemma.  Just re-saw this clip for Google chrome.  If this is how people are communicating, then why are people still writing books or ebooks? Especially when people expect to get information online for free? Last January, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) reported eBook net sales rose from 2010′s [...]