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You do not need to be completely original in order to be creative

Idea to Value

Does something need to be completely original in order to be creative ? This is a challenge which can petrify many people, and prevent them from trying to produce anything creative. As a result, many potential creative people never even get started. As a result, many potential creative people never even get started.

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

Idea to Value

Are some people born creative? Or to say it another way, are some people born not creative? But how do we find out whether someone can be born with or without creative ability? Do we inherit creativity from our parents? But what about creativity? I hear this myth all the time. Or can we develop it at any stage?

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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? But how much time would it have taken?

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How Employee Engagement Builds High-Performing Teams: 5 Insights

CMOE

According to a survey by the research firm Gallup, employee engagement is at its lowest since 2015. Improved communication leads to enhanced problem-solving, quicker conflict resolution, better coordination, and continuous learning and development. Rewards and recognition serve as powerful incentives that encourage further creativity.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. The practice is one in which the teacher of record delivers whole-class learning virtually, and an in-person monitor—often a substitute teacher—tracks behavior and ensures students do their work.

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Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Now is the time to impact 2015. I don’t know how to do innovation — start a project and learn as you go! Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now.

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Creative independence to innovate together

Norbert Bol

In the recent blog Innovation through collaboration some important conditions were presented how people with different expertise can work together to develop innovative ideas, such as being open to innovative work, respecting others and willing to learn. Photo credit: nattu / Foter / CC BY : creative independence. Literature.