The Weekly Roundup – June 12, 2010

How’s Your Health?

Tackling a creative challenge or trying some new creative activity can help you stay healthy. Your emotional health benefits, of course, but so will your physical health. Here are some simple suggestions for creative activities that will keep you in the pink: https://tinyurl.com/dfug7w

Sometimes, the little things make all the difference

Game-changing products like the iPad only come along once in a while, but just as important are the daily creative changes, the improvements, the little inventions that keep a business competitive and growing. Here are some ways to encourage creativity in your company or organization: https://tinyurl.com/ybsbbxj

Help your child to be creative

Children start out creative, because no one’s yet told them “no,” or “you can’t.” But pretty soon the naysayers begin, and so it’s essential to help kids stay creative by encouraging them to exercise their creative muscles: https://tinyurl.com/yh8m2nw

The way of the creative warrior

Being creative isn’t a one-time activity. It’s a process. Here, the four steps involved are spelled out for you: https://tinyurl.com/yj93324

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New Thinking for the New Era of Business

Albert Einstein famously noted, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them.” In our post-COVID world of ...

When an Astronaut Needs a Pen

Ever get stuck on a problem, only to realize you're solving for the wrong thing? That's exactly what happened when the rocket scientists at NASA ...

How Shake Shack Drives Innovation

Do you prefer the crispy mozzarella, tempura watercress, and black garlic mayonnaise cheeseburger or the pumpkin mustard, bacon, cranberries, and sage hot dog? For something ...

Lady Gaga’s Secret to Creativity

Just before she won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, I watched Lady Gaga dazzle the live audience with a pitch perfect performance of ...

Creativity: Does Size Matter?

For some reason, we’ve been taught that for creativity and innovation to count they need to have a magnitude the size of the 1989 San ...

The Lexicon of Creativity

There’s more confusion around the meaning of the word innovation than the chaos at the airline ticket counter after a cancelled flight. Is there a difference between ...

The Brain Science of Becoming More Creative

When we hear stories about iconic leaders like Salesforce.com’s founder Marc Benioff, or widely celebrated virtuosos like Lin-Manuel Miranda for that matter, we immediately think ...

Correct the Overcorrect

When the misguided leaders at Enron, Tyco and Worldcom committed fraud and marred their shareholders with huge losses, the Securities and Exchange Commission rightfully swooped ...

Learning to Color

Fact: Creativity has become the most needed skill in business. It’s gone from a nice-to-have to becoming mission-critical. Fact: Creativity is a learnable skill. All humans have ...