Around 1800, Charles Barbier was an artillery officer in Napoleon’s army. One of the problems he noticed was the soldiers kept getting shot at …
The Boring Part of Creativity – by Tom Goodwin
From around 2004 I worked at a very trendy Creative agency in London. Quite often you’d book a meeting room for an important client, …
Creativity: The key to problem solving
There’s the old joke about the two lumberjacks walking along a path in the woods, when suddenly they run into this large, ravenous grizzly bear. …
Creativity Is Our Only Hope
In the old days, you could get by quite well without too much creativity. So long as you got up every morning early did …
The creativity of transformation
“The next time you’re faced with something that’s unexpected, unwanted, and uncertain, consider that it just may be a gift.” Stacey Kramer’s TED Talk about …
Creativity is born of need
Innovation is change. Innovation is knowing that what worked isn’t always what works now. Innovation is knowing that even if it does work, something else …
built for creativity
How conducive is your space to your creativity? We’re not asking how many bean bags or espresso machines you have, we want to know how functional …
how creativity is born
Creativity is born from need. We’ve been taught that creative thinking is romantic – a shower thought, a long coffee in the afternoon. But creativity …
creativity requires a network
The “Myth of the lone genius” is an appealing and enduring idea for us creative types. Why is it so attractive to us? First, because …
creativity is freedom
I imagine by now you know that the out of fear may come comfort, but out of fear also comes a sense of unfulfillment. You spend …
creativity is the best business
Management loves the word, “Innovation”. Why? Because it allows it them to say what they mean, without having to use the word, “Creativity”. “Creativity” …
hotbeds of creativity
Hospitals aren’t ad agencies or media companies. So the word, “creativity” is not often associated with them. Instead we associate them with procedures and processes, both …