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Unleash Your Creativity in 4 Easy Steps
Can you align your approach to creating new work to the four stages of the creative problem solving process?
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How to Get Creatives to Do Their Best Work
We can’t put people in a box and then expect them to think outside the box.
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To Be A Success In Anything, Practice Your “Stand Up” Routine
Standing up isn’t simply a trait of those who innovate or lead. It is a human separator.
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Four Ways to Make Boring Meetings Better with the Torrance Incubation Model
Executives feel that a full 67 percent of meetings are a waste. Seventy-three percent of people do other work during meetings. But you can make boring meetings more engaging by employing best practices from the science of creativity.
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Want to Open Up The Creative Possibilities? Begin By Reexamining Openness Itself
Openness, while often noted as important to creativity, turns out to be vital and far more powerful than we think
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On Building Skills and Quick Wins
Take the longer path to develop your skills and you will reach places you have never imagined.
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Leading Creative Teams Can Be Like Herding Tigers. Todd Henry Helps Us Do It Well
Authoritative leadership does not lead to productive, engaged teams and it crushes creatives. A review of Todd Henry’s new book on the topic, Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need.
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The 1 Thing You Most Need To Grow Your Idea Isn’t About You
Discovering community in all its many forms is among the most important and powerful tools for any creator, innovator, or entrepreneur.
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Can Makers Make Money As Entrepreneurs?
It’s common for the “highly creative” to find sales and marketing hard to stomach. There’s a constant tension between sales functions and the reason we have to do these functions in the first place: our creative work. Is it even possible to be a true maker and an entrepreneur and make money?
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5 Ways to Support Creative Strengths and Have Fun Doing It
Find out how to spot and support strengths, even in your most annoying co-worker!
