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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

Another possible origin he remembers is from the president of Kal Kan Pet Food, who was said to eat a can of his dog food at shareholders’ meetings. For example, analysis of mutual fund managers in 2011 found nearly half of the managers did not themselves invest in the core funds they were advising customers to buy.

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Which drugs actually help your creativity?

Idea to Value

After all, if you wanted to look for examples of famous creatives who drank ungodly amounts of coffee, you could take inspiration from Beethoven (who was meticulous about having 60 beans per cup), and Voltaire (who allegedly drank between 40-50 cups per day). But how good are these ideas actually?

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

So as we can see, there appears to be ample evidence that if we just use a single measure of creativity like divergent thinking, children on the whole are more likely to perform better than adults. There is an old adage that children are more creative than adults. Are children really more creative than adults?

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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

Those of us who watched the movie or have seen it on ubiquitous reruns, know what happens next. The metaverses we create for ourselves merely build on what we already know - they don't show us the hidden hands and string pullers behind the scenes. In the Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo the choice of a blue pill or a red pill.

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

Idea to Value

That someone thinks that they are not creative because they see other people who have more talent or skill than they do, and by comparing themselves to these “geniuses” , they believe they do not have the ability to do great creative things. But how do we find out whether someone can be born with or without creative ability?

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Overcome the Customer’s Concern – Transfer the Risk

Destination Innovation

Why is that stopping people who can afford a new car and need one? If you find that you cannot make your payment because of a covered life changing event, we’ll allow you to return your vehicle and walk away from your loan obligation”. Source Automotive News May 2011 ). Hyundai USA took a different approach. percent to 4.6

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What Does a Chief Innovation Officer Do?

IdeaScale

We continue to see more and more Chief Innovation Officers at the enterprise level. In this survey from 2015, researchers report that 43% of large companies have some sort of top innovation executive in place, which was up from 33% in 2011. But what does a Chief Innovation Officer do? Well, here are a few of their responsibilities.

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