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TED Week: Robert Full and The New Rennaisance Man

July 16th, 2009 No Comments

The ideals of the Renaissance are being reformulated so that ability to combine different disciplines and achieve creative solutions exists not in an individual but within the collective knowledge and dynamics of a group.

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TED Week: Ken Robinson and Changing Education for Creativity

July 14th, 2009 No Comments

Schools need to encourage forms of learning that go beyond a very specific focus on math and science and a narrow way of testing skills if society is to prepare children to reach their full potentials and lead happy lives.

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TED Week: Jill Bolte Taylor and Accessing the Creative Impulse

July 13th, 2009 4 Comments

The valuable message Jill Bolte Taylor shares for all of us involved in creative work is that we have the choice to access the parts of our minds that we tend to ignore.

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Preparing Students For An Uncertain Future

July 13th, 2009 1 Comment

Education systems must begin to take a cross-disciplinary approach in order to prepare students for an innovation-based future, as preparing students to learn how to think is the only sensible course of action in an unknown future.

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The Four Ps of Creativity

June 30th, 2009 No Comments

Creativity is something that everyone has access to; it is not the provenance of select individuals.

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Overcoming Failure

June 17th, 2009 No Comments

Passion can propel you through all types of failure and it is rare to achieve real success unless you are passionate about what you are doing.

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Effective Brainstorming: Thinking Together

June 17th, 2009 No Comments

By having everyone think in the same way at the same time, optimal results can be achieved rather than creating an argumentative environment that stifles creativity and productivity.

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Changing Your Environment to Enhance Your Creativity

June 15th, 2009 1 Comment

If you’re like most people, chances are two things are true: 1) You don’t spend the most time in your most creative space, and 2) Your most creative space isn’t your workspace.

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Employees’ Passions and Skills: Your Greatest Business Assets

May 26th, 2009 No Comments

Great innovation starts with constructing a team that is passionate about what’s being solved (passion does not equal position in the company) and has members with diverse skills that meet the needs of the problems in unique ways.

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Risking Your Way to Excellence

May 14th, 2009 No Comments

Having failure as a possible outcome is scary, but the willingness to have failure be an option is a key to achieving excellence that leads to true business growth.

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