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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

Diamonds are formed under pressure There are numerous examples of companies who allowed staff to take time to work on their own innovations and creative ideas. So is time pressure actually good for creativity ? And the results were clear: time pressure results in people being less creatively productive.

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

This is the list of sections and book summaries: Alltime Classics How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – 1936 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – 1937 The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale – 1952 The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson – 1981 In Search of Excellence (..)

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Self-Serving bias: Why you think nothing is your fault

Idea to Value

What is a concern is that since the 1960s, meta-analyses have shown that people in 2002 believe their locus of control is decreasing and becoming more external. Researchers believe that one of the primary drivers for this bias may be based on a perceived threat to oneself if things go wrong.

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Who were the Greatest Britons?

Destination Innovation

In 2002 the BBC ran a poll to determine who the public considered to the the greatest British people of all time. He is recognised as the greatest and most creative writer in the English language and one of the most influential poets and playwrights worldwide. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616).

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Optimistic CEO, Pessimistic CFO: Optimal Pairing?

Michael Roberto

They studied 2,356 companies between 2002 and 2013. Here's their description of the research : We culled transcripts of conference calls between 2002 and 2013 involving both the CEOs and CFOs, and measured the executives’ optimism and pessimism by analysing their use of positive and negative words.

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The Orange Socks Story I’ve Never Written Before

BrainZooming

When the Fast Company article appeared in January 2002, someone came to my office to ask if I’d seen it. Googling “orange,” I discovered it is the color of creativity and innovation. The orange socks came up in conversation, but they were tangential to the interviews with the top leaders. I said I hadn’t. I was horrified!

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Hidden tools at my fingertips

100%Open

It’s an ugly truth that in life, time is money, and by attending Tony Harmer’s ‘Content Velocity with Adobe Creative Cloud’ seminar last Thursday, I was led to understand that how, as a designer, it was possible to create great content even faster. Non-creatives’ however often are not, hence the “I want it now” demands.

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