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Don’t Miss It! 45 Experts in Boosting Creative Thinking Skills – All FREE!

BrainZooming

How are you boosting your creative thinking skills in dramatic ways for 2017 and beyond? If you haven’t thought about it, fortunately for you, there is an opportunity coming up April 2 through April 9, 2017! It features forty-five creativity and innovation experts! And it’s available online and FREE!

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Innovation Day

eZassi

April 21 The United Nations’ World Creativity and Innovation Day on April 21 recognizes creativity and innovation’s role in human progress. The UN passed a resolution in 2017 to mark this global celebration, aiming to encourage people worldwide to use new ideas, technologies, and creative thinking to build a better future.

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

Idea to Value

Therefore, the older brain’s preference will always be to use safe memories instead of creative new ‘risky’ solutions. But once school begins, the emphasis shifts to learning and reciting facts. Divergent thinking, which can result in a whole list of incorrect answers, is drilled into us as being dangerous and to be avoided.

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

It is characterized by constant iteration and collaboration, where the group’s learning is applied to continuous improvement of ideas. The team stays within its scope and parameters, to be sure, but they also engage in creative thinking about the problem they are addressing. Integrating Agile Approaches into Waterfall Cultures.

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

Innovation Excellence

Strong relationships within and among teams can lead to more productive communication in the workplace (Schwantes, 2017). For these reasons, structured get-to-know-each-other meetings can do wonders for encouraging collaboration and breaking down barriers to learning, so our staff can more confidently lean on one another and collaborate.

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

Idea to Value

Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though. Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though. A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. Both children and adults are creative.

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The Role of Creativity in the Life of a Product Manager

Rmukesh Gupta

We will then try to learn what did the product managers (in some cases, entrepreneurs themselves) do so that their products became successful. For many months, he spent a lot of time in the New York Public library trying to read and learn everything there was to the imaging process. What do we learn from them.