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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

While this can be a fun way for fun team-building and teams to spend time together, it is less likely to result in longer-term improvement in their ability to solve problems or come up with creative solutions.

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What are your innovation ambitions for next year?

Idea to Value

Since 2005, I have been working with companies around the world to transform their businesses. For consulting engagements, travel is of course possible ( of course respecting COVID safety travel restrictions ). However, it is something very special when a company actually does something about improving their innovation success rate.

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What impact does time pressure have on creativity?

Idea to Value

One of the most comprehensive studies on the subject was from 2005 by Jennifer Mueller , Teresa Amabile and colleagues, collecting thousands of daily journal entries from 222 employees at 7 companies. And to make matters worse, in today’s work environment we are constantly surrounded by interruptions and distractions.

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

Idea to Value

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 ). which has been shown to be a powerful predictor of people actually engaging in a creative activity. aesthetic sensitivity (appreciating arts). intellectual curiosity.

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Helping discover your innovation pathway

Paul Hobcraft

Having those insights are the wonderful moments of magic, and they still hold such power over our innovative thinking, sometimes unfairly judging our innovation process as “ad hoc”, but we must not deny us all to find ways to open up to a different way of innovation management through open, collaborative innovation engagement.

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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. In my view, those words in the most recent Goalkeepers report, are the most important Gates wrote in the annual update.

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The Podcast Renaissance: How Podcasts Boost Creativity and Inspire Audiences

Idea to Value

The first podcasts and hosting service were introduced in early 2004, and it wasn’t until mid-2005 that Apple supported them on iTunes. Perhaps most importantly its accessible nature inspires creatives to engage with the craft, contributing their unique touches to a developing audio landscape.