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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

This is similar to the work I do with clients and companies to understand the science of creativity. See my services here for more information. His team found that this training improved creative performance in students by over 28%. We therefore never attempted to publish it.

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 2 of 5)

Idea to Value

You see, back in 2005 I started work with one of the largest management consulting firms in the world. Over years, I specialised in helping companies deliver their largest transformation programs. Projects that would fundamentally change the company, and take them into the future. Or so everyone thought.

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The Green Living Guy Talks Electric Vehicles

Business and Tech

Leitman, an electric vehicle expert and president of the Greater Hudson Valley Electric Auto Association, has been known as the Green Living Guy since 2005, when he began his media empire focused on sustainability. “I I became Green Living Guy when I was leaving a partnership with an energy company.

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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

Idea to Value

No, I am not talking about what you and your company’s high level goals are: … Increase market share … … Improve profit margins … … Be innovative … I am asking what specific ambitions you and your company have for next year. Every company does this now. This is why they are frustrated.

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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.

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Walmart: How an Innovator in Arkansas Continues to Change our World

IdeaScale

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, an unlikely corporation spearheaded the relief effort. Later the company would buy aircraft second-hand to fly managers out to stores. In 2005, the company’s CEO decided to set the company on a path to becoming completely green, with no waste and the stores running on renewable power.

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The most important words Bill Gates wrote in the Goalkeepers report?

Christensen Institute

Gates notes that, as millions of people in low-income countries go hungry, the cumulative spend on food aid from 2005 to 2020 was $57 billion while just $9 billion was spent on agriculture research in the same time period. Today, Formosa has grown to become one of the world’s largest plastics companies.

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