The Weekly Roundup – May 7, 2010

The Power of Lego to Inspire

If you didn’t play with Legos as a child you missed out. The good news is that it’s never too late. Lego – and any tactile construction-type child game like it – can help adults jump-start their creativity no matter how old or uninspired. This short moving will get you thinking about Lego and all the ways it can inspire your creative thinking: https://bit.ly/bVQLgr

The 6 Myths of Creativity

Do you need to inspire creative work in your organization? A recent study shows that the ways people usually think about creativity in organizations are not necessarily born out by the facts. Get the real scope on how to make creativity work for you here: https://bit.ly/d3xJVU

Sometimes It’s Just a Picture that Inspires

One sign of a truly creative mind is to take ordinary household items that don’t usually come under the category of inspirational and use them to create wonderful new ideas and mental landscapes. The artist here clearly thinks out of the box, the egg carton, and the bowl: https://bit.ly/cIEEZt

Helping Left-Brainers Become Creative

It’s not just the accountants and the lawyers – there are a lot of left-brain people in the workplace, and they need help becoming more creative. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to ease left-brainers into a more creative working mode. Find ten suggestions here: https://bit.ly/c0wTKS

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Open Collaboration: The Key to a Strong Culture of Innovation

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine your company’s most valuable asset isn’t your product, your patents, your trademarks, or even your people. It's the connections between ...

How AI Will Shape the Physical World

Introduction Last year, I watched a video of Alex Conley, a man with a cervical spinal cord injury, controlling a robotic arm mounted to his ...

What Jazz Musicians and AI Researchers Have In Common

Introduction We have always built things in our own image. The ancient Greeks carved gods that looked like idealized humans. Renaissance architects designed buildings proportioned ...

How AI Will Make Corporate Conferences More Exciting

Introduction I have delivered keynote speeches at over 1,000 events. And I can tell you the single biggest factor that separates a forgettable conference from ...

Force vs. Flow

The tighter you grip, the less you control. We've been conditioned to believe that forcing outcomes is the path to success. Clench your jaw. White-knuckle ...

The Innovator’s AI Dilemma

Here's a question that should keep every leader up at night: What is generative AI actually doing to our ability to think critically? Not "could ...

Are Your Meetings Killing Innovation? A Simple Reset That Gets Ideas Flowing Again

 If you’re a leader who’s ever led a brainstorm of any kind, you’ve probably had this experience. You open up the floor for ideas, and ...

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 ...