The Creativity Project

I read an article today on the dark side of cliques - it speaks about how cliques in the workplace can have a negative effect on overall performance. A good approach to break them down is to take them head on, and facilitate open discussions, so people aren’t excluding their co-workers, talking behind their back […]

I have been feeling stuck with my usual sources of internet news. In an attempt to broaden horizons beyond the usual RSS feeds, Digg and Reddit here are some sites with cutting-edge creative content…
10 New Interesting News Announcers

Hacker News
Arts & Letters Daily
The Register
Give me something to read
Delicious: popular
MetaFilter
PostRank
Stuff.co.nz
Feedmil
Science Daily

Where do you go to find new […]

Apparently Humor at the Office is Serious Business, so much that it is not just about “… clowning around and having fun. It has meaningful impact on cohesiveness in the workplace and communication quality among workers. The ability to appreciate humor, the ability to laugh and make other people laugh actually has physiological effects on […]

Seth Godin explores a new standard for meetings and conferences and how to justify the increasing cost and time commitment of travel. Face-to-face contact is much more effective than internet-related conferencing tools and Seth hits an important point that we need to address this effectively.
One powerful method Seth missed in his analysis is Open […]

Where does creativity come from?

The brain
The yet un-manifested realm of possibility
Action taken to create something new
Random chance
Edward de Bono
Hard work
TPS reports

This week’s video is an insightful talk by copyright authority Larry Lessig about the creativity blossoming from access to content on the internet, and the conflict with copyright law which hasn’t caught up this new form of creativity - and the implications.

A bit of good advice came to me today from the Creative Generalist (via Leslie’s super premium blog) - especially needed after working non-stop: the best way to boost creativity is to slow down, because:

efficiency kills creativity
speed denies you any change to think
systems, by definition, throttle innovation
a firm, disciplined focus stops people going […]

Management Innovation is emerging as a new focus for companies struggling with intense competition. It is a topic that is gaining a lot of attention, as can be seen by the annual Management Innovation Forum in Dubai.
Fortunately for the world, it seems it is much more valuable for a company to focus on creating engaging […]

Here is an interesting insight into the right-brain from Jill Taylor:

Jill seems to suggest that creativity comes from the right-brain, whereas logic and language belong to the left-brain. I’m not sure if it’s as much a distinction between the left and right hemispheres, as a mode of […]

Just caught this new ad for the discovery channel (via the Creative Generalist)

It reminds me of one of my favorite clip, the Caral Sagan tribute - Pale Blue Dot:

What a wonderful […]