Creativity
- Tipping the world: The power of collaborative entrepreneurship Bill Drayton, chairman and CEO of Ashoka
- Creating large-scale change: Not ‘can’ but ‘how’ J. Gregory Dees, cofounder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University
- Kobe Design Creativity Conference: 6 Diagrams for Creativity
- Kobe Design Creativity Conference: 42 Models of Creativity
- Kobe Design Creativity Conference: 60 Models of Creativity
- Kobe Design Creativity Conference: What if Creativity were 60 Things
- Creativity: The Strategic Tool Of The Twenty-first Century by Tania de Jong AM, Australian Business Solutions
- Adapt For Gen Y, Or Die by Victor Finkel, Australian Business Solutions
- Report: The C-Factors by Allison and Partners. How creativity, collaboration and culture will re-energise today's global economy
- Who killed creativity? We need your help in an unusual murder investigation. The just released IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs has identified creativity as the No. 1 leadership competency of the future, and yet results from 300,000 CQ Torrance tests have shown that since 1990 creativity has been on the decline. We want to know: Who Killed Creativity?
- Childhood creativity in decline? Putting the spotlight on the issue of supporting creativity in children - Pilot Pens
- The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric - Scientific American, 14 April 2011
- A New Tool for Creative Thinking: Mind-Body Dissonance - Scientific American, 8 March 2011
- In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas is an urgent managerial priority. And that calls for major doses of creativity. But many leaders assume creativity is too elusive and intangible to be managed. Click here for more.
- How's Your Creative Fitness? - Not For Profit Network Australia - PDF 172kB
- Creativity_vs_Innovation - "The Innovation Pipeline" extract PDF 8kB
- Increase Your Creativity: Live Abroad - Scientific American's 60 Second Psych - 14 June 2009 (Link to article)
- An Easy Way to Increase Creativity - Scientific American - 21 July 2009 (Link to article)
- How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition - The Dana Foundation - 14 Sept 2009 (Link to article)
- Tim Stockil on Creative Training PDF 256KB
- Creative Destruction and the financial crisis PDF 20KB
- How to Unleash Your Creativity – In a discussion with Scientific American Mind executive editor Mariette DiChristina, three noted experts on creativity, each with a very different perspective and background, reveal powerful ways to unleash your creative self. (link to external site)
- Happiness: Good for Creativity, Bad for Single-Minded Focus – Happy people are open to all sorts of ideas, some of which can be distracting. (link to external site)
- Unleashing Creativity – Moments of brilliance arise from complex cognitive processes. Piece by piece, researchers are uncovering the secrets of creative thinking. (link to external site)
- Is it true that creativity resides in the right hemisphere of the brain? (link to external site)
- Managing Personal Creativity – Jeffrey H Mauzy (link to external site)
Video
- In Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen?
- Edward de Bono on Creative Thinking Edward de Bono, renowned expert on creative thinking, talks about creativity and about thinking outside the box. Be sure to check out more from Doctor de Bono and solve his three creative challenges at www.thinkoutsidethebox.se
- The Brain - Creativity – Dr Paul Howard Jones talks about creativity, the brain and learning in a creative environment. Strategies to help nurture creativity lead to a substantial increase in creative brain activity, and the results also imply a link between time and a quality creative outcome. (link to external site – 4 minute video clip)
- Hands Up Part 1: "How Creative are you?" Does school kill creativity? Do people lose creative ability over time, and is our education system the culprit? Find out for yourself in this fascinating video... as children get older, they often see themselves as less creative. Andrew Grant and Gaia Grant went back to school to find out if children have any ideas on how adults can become more creative. They were not surprised to discover that their findings correlated with the latest research from Harvard.
- Hands Up Part 2: "Creativity secrets from the kids"
- Hands Up Part 3: "Creativity secrets from the Experts"
Audio
- Audio Podcast: Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life - Tom Kelley, 2008. Tom Kelley, general manager at the world-renowned design firm, IDEO, presents five core practices that enhance creativity. Through entertaining stories and examples, he describes how these techniques help us all become more innovative in every aspect of our lives and lead to more success.
- Audio Podcast: Stimulating Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace - Bob Sutton, 2006. Robert Sutton, Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford University focuses on what it takes to stimulate innovation and creativity in the workplace and relates the key points from his book "Weird Ideas that Work."
- Audio Podcast: Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google - Marissa Mayer, 2006. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google, shares nine lessons learned about fostering creative ideas and innovation based on her experience developing highly successful Web applications at Google.
