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How much luck do you need to be creative?

Idea to Value

However, in the 200m butterfly in London 2012, Phelps was beaten by South Africa’s Chad Le Clos by just five one-hundredths of a second. When it comes to the creative fields and innovation, there are thousands of stories where someone appreciates how lucky they were. Lucky in one race, unlucky in another.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

With this new online Udemy course you can quickly absorb the key ideas and principles in best-selling busines books by watching short video lectures. But how much time would it have taken? The books range from old classics like How to Win Friends and Influence People, right up to modern bestsellers like Start with Why and Atomic Habits.

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We need to delay the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Idea to Value

I worked for more than 2 years on the London 2012 Olympics directly with the athletes, and have seen first hand what the Games are like, in the stadium and in the athletes village. Please follow me to see my upcoming innovation and creativity articles and videos again. Tokyo’s crowded infrastructure.

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Artificial creativity (A.C.): Can a computer be creative? It’s scarily close

Idea to Value

In 2013, I wrote a breakthrough article on the nascent examples of computers beginning to generate ideas in a way similar to human creativity. Here I revisit the article with all-new evidence showing how close we are to artificial creativity. Over the passing years, this ability has grown by leaps and bounds. Writing its own TED talk.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Why Command-and-Control Culture Fails Stifles Creativity and Innovation A command-and-control culture tends to stifle creativity and innovation, as it leaves no room for employees to contribute their ideas or think outside the box. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

BrainZooming

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. Anybody can post videos. But some things remain constant.

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Culture of Innovation Video and Case Study: Cambia Health Solutions Transforms the Health Care Landscape Through Innovation

Planview

This blog features a new video of how Cambia drives employee engagement through its Pitchwell program and features their case study centered around their “app-a-thon challenge,” focusing on “the big problems in healthcare”. Pitchwell Video. Nair and his team turned to Spigit for help in 2012.