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What Ira Glass Explains In 1-Minute Will Change Your Life Forever. Seriously. Creative Surprise Is Your Secret Weapon — An Innovator’s Guide to Creativity  What Is Creativity? Cultural Icons on What Ideation Is and How It Works. Why Business Leaders Should Think Like Artists. Mentoring Moment: The Art of Animating. The Psychology of Limitation: How Constraints Make Us More Creative. 6.2K Flares Filament.io 6.2K Flares ×

The Psychology of Limitation: How Constraints Make Us More Creative

ReFrame – helps you to think differently. Ira Glass On The Art. The 10 Best Websites to Inspire Creativity. How To Know If You're Working With Mammals Or Reptiles (And Why It Matters To Your Creativity) Can you pick out the reptiles in your workplace (And no, not the ones who do finger pistols and prey on interns)? According to neurophysiologist Stephen Porges, if you want to be creative, you want to be on the lookout for the scaly types, and seek out the mammals instead. Knowing the difference first requires a bit of Porges’ insight into the way your brain works. Your consciousness, you see, is much more than you’re conscious of.

Porges is founder of the polyvagal theory. International Fund for Cultural Diversity. November 2012: Fostering regional cooperation Landmark study reveals Latin America’s “invisible cinema” While much has been written about community radio, community cinema in Latin America and the Caribbean “is almost as invisible, as the communities that it represents,” says leading expert Alfonso Gumucio Dagron.

International Fund for Cultural Diversity

He was the coordinator and one of seven researchers who recently completed the first-ever study into the region’s growing community cinema sector. With advances in technology making it easier for people to create their own audio-visual products, Latin America and the Caribbean has seen community cinema sprout up everywhere. How might we inspire and enable communities to take more initiative in making their local environments better? - Concepting. How Rejection Breeds Creativity. In 2006, Stefani Germanotta had hit a turning point in her career.

How Rejection Breeds Creativity

She had quit a rigorous musical theatre program at an elite college to focus on her musical passion and, after a year of hard work and little income, had signed a deal with Def Jam records. But this promise wouldn’t last. Just three months after signing, Def Jam changed its mind about Stefani’s unusual style and released her from her contract. 10 talks about the beauty — and difficulty — of being creative. Radio host Julie Burstein has found the perfect analogy for creativity—raku pottery.

10 talks about the beauty — and difficulty — of being creative

A Japanese art form in which molded clay is heated for 15 minutes and then dropped in sawdust which bursts into flames, what makes this pottery so beautiful is its imperfections and cracks. Burstein interviewed hundred of artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers for her book, Spark: How Creativity Works, and heard many of them describe their process in similar terms — that the best parts of their work came from embracing challenges, misfortunes and the things they simply couldn’t control. TEDxStanford - Tina Seelig - A crash course in creativity. You Are The Map Maker. The art of Design/Creative thinking, ways to foster Innovation. The art of Design/Creative thinking : 10 ways to foster Innovation Posted by Richie on Monday, July 12, 2010 · 32 Comments Design is ubiquitous.

The art of Design/Creative thinking, ways to foster Innovation

It is in the magazines we read, the products we use, the services we enjoy and the consumer experiences that happen to us (especially the brand experiences that big companies like Apple and Nike deliver to us these days). Jonah Sachs at Compostmodern '11. Cultivating organizational creativity in an age of complexity: A companion study to the IBM 2010 Global Chief Human Resource Officer Study. Why are some organizations consistently good at innovating and/or adapting while others seem to be blindsided by change?

Cultivating organizational creativity in an age of complexity: A companion study to the IBM 2010 Global Chief Human Resource Officer Study

Is it because of their disciplined innovation process or the knowledge and skills of their people? Or is it their determination to build a culture where challenging assumptions is not only encouraged, but expected? Our IBM Creative Leadership Study found that leaders who embrace the dynamic tension between creative disruption and operational efficiency can create new models of extraordinary value. What, specifically, enables leading-edge organizations to capitalize on the inherent complexity in today's environment and catalyze innovation within their business models, products and services?

According to the IBM 2010 Global CEO Study, the ability to embody creative leadership is among the most important attributes for capitalizing on complexity. Creative leadership in action enables a wide range of product, process and business model innovations. Human Interface with Global Change. The 20th Century was an era of specialization.

Human Interface with Global Change

Many new fields of research were created that separate one domain of knowledge from another. The 21st Century must be an era of synthesis and integration. The challenges set before us are incredibly complex, unfolding as seamlessly interconnected patterns that span the globe. As a social innovator who specializes in human system design, I have spent many years gathering useful knowledge across disciplines.

And now I am setting out on a path to integrate two vast domains into a rigorous framework for strategic action — earth systems research and cognitive science. The video above explains what I am setting out to do. Essentially, I want to address the compounding problems of systemic risk that propagate across interconnected systems. Simply Beautiful Photographs, Tips on Composing Photographs, Gallery – National Geographic.