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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

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A 2015 study of 180 participants over 9 weeks showed that creativity training not only significantly improved the participant’s view of their own creativity, it resulted in those participants producing more creative output A 2016 study showed one 1.5

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Planning fallacy: Why we are so bad at predicting how long something will take

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In fact, analysis of projects planned to cost over $1 billion showed that around 90% of them also go over budget. Other research from 2005 has shown that groups are also susceptible to underestimating how long they will take to complete a task. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence.

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The creative personality: Which of the Big 5 Personality Traits is associated with creativity?

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The worst example of this is probably the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment, which has been debunked by the scientific community ( 1996 , 1997 , 2005 ). Nonetheless, there is one system of personality testing which is widely accepted by the psychology science community.

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Do you need to be intelligent in order to be creative? The threshold theory

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Kim (2005) : Meta analysis of 45,880 participants found relationship between creativity test scores and IQ scores is negligible. Runco (1986) : Tested 228 schoolchildren to find correlation between creativity and intelligence. Does not support the threshold theory. However, did find a slight negative correlation above an IQ of 135.

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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

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Reuter 2005 suggests that one particular dopamine receptor gene DRD2 may manifest itself in the creative potential of an individual, albeit weakly. A 2008 meta-analysis performed by Prof DK Simonton estimated that performance related to creativity and talent had a basis that was no more than 10% – 20% genetic.

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Nothing new under the innovation sun

Jeffrey Phillips

I've only had the chance to read the synopsis, which is available on Slideshare , but it seems like an well-considered report, and I'm sure it's full of great analysis and observations. Perhaps one of the graphs that says more than you'd expect is the analysis of the question "why do projects get killed?".

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Strategic foresight: learning from Steve Jobs

Norbert Bol

This discipline includes all activities related to forecasting, scenario analysis, action planning and decision making about strategy. Steve Job’s speech at Stanford commencement address, 2005. The combination of vision and taking appropriate actions made him a great example of a discipline which is called strategic foresight.