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Inbound 2017 – 14 Ideas on Creative Thinking Skills, Branding, and Leadership

BrainZooming

We are back from the Inbound 2017 conference sponsored by Hubspot. For a quick summary of the week, here are quotes pulled from across most of the Inbound 2017 keynotes and breakout presentations I attended. Creative Thinking Skills. “We didn’t like the media landscape, so we changed it. .

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How to keep our children (and adults) from losing their creativity

Idea to Value

Is it just a biological process (nature) or is it caused by changes from the society around us (nurture)? From a natural change perspective, there are some changes which happen in our brains as we age. Therefore, the older brain’s preference will always be to use safe memories instead of creative new ‘risky’ solutions.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

Responding to change over following a plan. The team stays within its scope and parameters, to be sure, but they also engage in creative thinking about the problem they are addressing. They focus on one aspect at a time until they are satisfied they have a good working response or solution. About the Author.

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Workplace Culture: Productive People Make High-performing Teams That Produce Rapid Results

Innovation Excellence

Workplace culture can change rapidly with world events, and play an important role in how employees respond to and operate in times of crisis. Many pandemic response measures, such as work-from-home policies, have changed the workplace where the culture lives. The importance of predictability in workplace culture cannot be overstated.

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

Idea to Value

However, another 2016 study shows it is not clear if simply engaging in pretend play leads to higher creativity as an adult. Examples such as gardening and construction were as valuable for supporting creative thinking as ones traditionally associated with creativity, for example, music and painting.

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The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager

Rmukesh Gupta

They have announced that the colour of the year 2017 is going to be Pantone Greenery. People do not accept change well,” Mr. Sadow said, recalling the many months he spent rolling his prototype bag on sales calls to department stores in New York and elsewhere. So, get ready to see a lot of green all around you. to order a few.

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Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

BrainZooming

As of December 2017, The Knit Show has had over a quarter of a million views in at least 19 countries. It could be any one of those, or it could be something I haven’t even thought of, because everything’s changing. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Photo: Harper Point Photography.