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A Frenchman walks into a bar with a duck on his head, and the bartender asks, “Hey, where’d you get that?” So the duck says “I got it in Paris, they’ve got millions of ’em there.” Jokes like this one are funny because the punch line just doesn’t fit with the “context” of the setup. It violates our expectations, and this has the power to give us a chuckle. Human beings are constantly observing the environment in order to make mental predictions for what will happen next, given the context of their observations.
7 Ways To Stimulate Your Capacity For Creativity
By ETHAN BURRIS How often do you have an idea that you want to tell your boss, or your boss's boss, or your boss's boss's boss, and actually say it? And more important, if you do say it, how often do you feel the boss really listens?
How Companies Can Put More of Their Employees' Ideas to Work
When Facebook first reached out to Kate Aronowitz in late 2008, the then-head of LinkedIn’s design team was pretty sure she didn’t want to move over to the social network. She was a new mom. Crazy startup hours were not part of her plan. A conversation with Facebook VP of product Chris Cox, however, changed her mind. “We’d both just seen the movie Helvetica ,” Aronowitz tells me when I go down to Facebook headquarters to meet her. Helvetica is a “beautiful, timeless, perfectly designed” font that’s everywhere and yet that most people don’t register as something worth remarking upon, she says.
Kate Aronowitz, Facebook's Design Director, On Crafting A Design-Led Organization
You're the boss, but you still spend too much time on the day-to-day. Here's how to become the strategic leader your company needs. shutterstock images 359 in Share
The 6 Habits of True Strategic Thinkers
Let Your Ideas Go - Nilofer Merchant
There are two ways of holding an idea. One is with a closed fist, and one is with an open palm. When you hold an idea in a closed fist, you control it. It is yours. And no one else can access it. Ideas held tightly — as if in a fist — can't be seen.Creativity
Note : This is a guest article by Jesse Oguntimehin . More details about him after the post. If you let people tell you what they want, they will change their mind by the time you serve them as they requested. — Steve Jobs [rephrased] Definition – What is design thinking ? There may be different definitions to design.
How to Use Design Thinking To Increase Conversion
Can Disruptive Innovation Be Learned?
Or are truly creative people born with something special? Clayton Christensen discusses his latest book, The Innovator's DNA, which analyzes the traits of CEOs who have disrupted their industries. 165 in Share Connect with Evernote:When two tribes meet: collaborations between artists and scientists | Art and design
Yes, Leonardo da Vinci was both artist and inventor. True, Brian Cox was in that band before he gave it all up for the Large Hadron Collider . But in general, art and science seem to eye each other uncomprehendingly. Medical research charity the Wellcome Trust has long tried to make artists and scientists work fruitfully together by funding collaborations. Can the divide ever be breached?
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