Posts tagged creativity
“You can never predict what ideas will go viral. The only thing you can do is keep producing, keep thinking,” Dominique Ansel, Cronut creator, founder and owner of his eponymously named bakery in New York City’s Soho district says. “Don’t hog or save your best ideas. Set them free.”
Read more on the man behind the Cronut craze in OPEN Forum’s exclusive interview with the man, the myth, the pastry legend.
5 Tips to Jumpstart Your Creativity
1. Ditch the quiet office.
2. Silence the inner critic.
3. Experiment with your work environment.
4. Sift out the busy work.
5. Branch out beyond your comfort zone.
It ain’t about your passion; it’s about being a part of something larger than yourself … Because at the end of your days when you look back—it’s not just about saying how successful you were, how many toys or trinkets or how much power you accumulated, it’s about what you created, about what you did to make the world a slightly better place because you were here.
Walter Isaacson, biographer and CEO of the Aspen Institute, from his 2013 commencement speech at Pomona College.
Read more great insights from this year’s most inspirational commencement speakers on OPEN Forum.
What does your workspace say about you?
Peep the desktops and work rooms of creative geniuses - from Pablo Picasso to John Updike - for some workspace inspiration.
“Innovation debt is the cost that companies incur when they don’t invest in their developers,” Peter Bell writes in his personal blog. “It happens when the team is too busy putting out fires and finishing up features to keep up to date with advances in languages, frameworks, libraries, tools and processes.” via Fast Company
Read more on how to identify innovation debt at your company and how to fix it … fast.
(via Is Your Company Going Into Innovation Debt? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation)
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Make This Awesome ‘33 Ways to Stay Creative’ List a Part of Your Life
- Liz Dwyer posted in Education, Creativity and ListsThis list pops up on the web every few months—the Steampunk group on Facebook is the latest to share. What would happen if most people followed its recommendations instead of just clicking “like”? How would our society change if schools posted these and then operated accordingly? (Caveat for the kids: We’d have to nix “drink coffee”!) Of course the best thing about lists is crossing things off of them, so c’mon, let’s commit to putting some of these suggestions into practice.
Why Innovators Love Constraints
1. Fewer resources produce proximity; proximity drives innovation.
2. Constraints lead to faster feedback.
3. Constraints can be an indispensable tool of creation.
(via Why Innovators Love Constraints - Whitney Johnson - Harvard Business Review)
Smart business leaders know that work environment has a huge impact on employee performance too. In response, they often carefully design and cultivate an environment that supports employee performance and reinforces the corporate culture. Read More
(via How Your Work Environment Affects Your Creativity | Clarity.fm Blog)
Say it with me: How might we?
This is the phrase that today’s most successful companies use when they want to tackle challenges creatively. How might we improve X … or completely re-imagine Y… or find a new way to accomplish Z? This approach to innovation ensures that you’re asking the right questions, and steering clear of more limiting inquiries like “How can we?” or “How should we?” which imply judgment. Read more
Top 5 Traits of Successful Innovators
Among most common traits found in successful, innovative companies are:
- Creative with marketing
- Adaptive
- Customer-focused
- Able to channel drive and ambition
- Willing to experiment
How does your company rate against them?
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