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Creativity Seminar: Avoid "Group Think." Diverse Teams are More Creative.
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Avoid "Group Think." Diverse Teams are More Creative. INCLUDING AN OUTSIDER BRINGS FRESH PERSPECTIVE AND BETTER SOLUTIONS. The goal of creativity is to generate new ideas, by seeing things from a new perspective. But a group that's all the same is doomed to think the same — and to tread the same path they've trod before. The point in forming a creative team isn't to fill it with those who will "fit in," but to fill it with those who will challenge the team in a constructive way. Unusual connections produ...
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Creativity Seminar: What Encourages Employees To Be Creative?
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What Encourages Employees To Be Creative? According to a Wall Street Journal. Article by JC Spender and Bruce Strong, the best source of productive ideas at any corporation is the employees themselves, through what the authors term Innovation Communities. These forums that share concepts across functions and ranks are defined by seven key characteristics:. 8226; Create the space to innovate. 8226; Get a broad variety of viewpoints. 8226; Create a conversation between management and staff. This third expl...
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Creativity Seminar: Varied Experience, Broad Understanding
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Varied Experience, Broad Understanding. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it - they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. 8212; Steve Jobs, Wired. Corporations, media comp...
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Creativity Seminar: Visual Thinking for Writers
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Visual Thinking for Writers. Visual thinking involves using images as tools to allow the creative and emotional part of the brain to process information in an intuitive manner. Of Teachers College at Columbia University, in an article. Published by The National Council of Teachers of English. Advances the question: What if visual thinking were given special emphasis in the English classroom? First, visual texts provide an easier access to printed texts, particularly for English Language Learners, via the...
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Creativity Seminar: Pyramid Dream
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John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design. And former associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab. Works to integrate technology, education and the arts into a 21st-century synthesis of creativity and innovation. In his extraordinary blog he describes a conversation he had with Dr. Patricia Brennan. Of University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the nature of creativity and imagination:. This chart was] inspired by Maslow's famous Hierarchy of Needs. More inspiration from John Maeda.
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Creativity Seminar: Think Different
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.". 8212; John Cage. The Creativity Seminar teaches individuals, teams and companies new ways to develop ideas and solve problems. It offers techniques and tools that make the creative process easier and more productive. Creativity. Is a skill — which can be developed, practiced and improved. For information on how to. Host The Creativity Seminar. CLICK FOR FULL BIO. View my complete profile. Special New York Series.
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Creativity Seminar: Question the Question
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8220;If a problem can't be solved within the frame in which it was conceived,. Then the solution lies in reframing the problem.”. 8213; Brian McGreevy. The Creativity Seminar teaches individuals, teams and companies new ways to develop ideas and solve problems. It offers techniques and tools that make the creative process easier and more productive. Creativity. Is a skill — which can be developed, practiced and improved. For information on how to. Host The Creativity Seminar. CLICK FOR FULL BIO. THE BENE...
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Creativity Seminar: Brainstorming: Accentuate the Positive
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Brainstorming: Accentuate the Positive. A re-posting of an article, from The Creative Leadership Forum,. By Paul Sloane, author of The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills. By identifying the negative, Sloane accentuates the positive:. 1 Having no clear objectives. Is not as good as 'How can we double sales in the next 12 months? Once the question has been agreed it is written up clearly for all to see. It is worth setting objectives for the number of ideas to be generated and the time to be spe...
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Sean Kelly: Cartoonist for "Metropolitan Diary": Weather Report
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Monday, November 6, 2006. Sean Kelly's series of over 50. Diary has received honors from. The Society of Illustrators,. Print Magazine, The Society for. News Design, Communication. Arts, American Illustration,. The Society of Publication. Designers and The National. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and creator of thousands of visual solutions to assignments from hundreds of clients, Sean Kelly is a graduate of Brown University and was a 2012 USC Annenberg/Getty Fellow. CLICK FOR FULL BIO.
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