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Linda Alexander's insight:
Yes, there is both art and imagination to sustaining value creation! A prime example if offered here... 
Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting's curator insight,
May 17, 4:23 PM
Confusing version releases with innovation Apple? Mike Myatt takes on "offense and defense." And so goes the comparisons of two very different cultures and the leaders at the top. ~ D
Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting's curator insight,
May 17, 4:29 PM
How innovation wasn't, via Mike Myatt, at Apple vs. Google. Interesting take worth a look. ~ D Delete the scoop?
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Jay invites the musical couple from Pumpcast to play with Rickey and The Tonight Show Band. Subscribe to The Tonight Show for more Leno: http://full.sc/IbG1m...
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I had to post their follow-up on TV--of course! Delete the scoop?
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Jack Rafferty surprises this musical couple at the gas pumps! Subscribe to The Tonight Show for more Leno: http://full.sc/IbG1mW Watch The Tonight Show Weekn...
Linda Alexander's insight:
If you haven't viewed this in the last few days, you really should. When I watched it yesterday morning 1MM people had viewed it. Well, it is so funny and uplifting that a day later 5MM views! This really is the best of art and imagination.... Delete the scoop?
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Radio figures Ira Glass, Sylvia Poggioli, Neda Ulaby, and others have inspired restaurants, pets' names, license plates, and songs.
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I love hearing Sylvia Poggioli's name too! Great article... Delete the scoop?
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"The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real." Delete the scoop?
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New neuroscience study sets out to explain why in some respects music offers the same sort of pleasure as a really good thriller. Via Karen Dietz
Linda Alexander's insight:
It explains it all...and then some! 
Karen Goldfarb Copywriter's curator insight,
May 3, 1:18 PM
We are always trying to work out where the music or copywriting / story is heading, and enjoy the journey even if we're wrong. "There is pleasure even in being deceived." 
Mirjana Podvorac's curator insight,
May 4, 2:08 PM
Some new research on some things teachers have known and used for a long time. Delete the scoop?
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Live vicariously through a man who was way more interesting than your typical status update. Let the Hemingway Status Hijacker take control of your facebook timeline.
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Through this link you can let Hemingway hijack your Facebook timeline for an entire day. You could be, like, Hemingway! Okay, I am reading "The Paris Wife"right now and not feeling the Hemingway love, but an imaginative idea. Should we try it? In the end, a clever ad campaign that will surely create some buzz... Delete the scoop?
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A labor of love nearly two years in the making.
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Mark Twain encouraged little girls to be independent...great book find! 1865 is in the midst of the American Renaissance and progressive thinking. Mark Twain, along with Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Margaret Fuller were ahead of their times....! Delete the scoop?
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In keeping with current trends, Brazilian modeling agency Star Models is using illustrations to address body image issues. But its effort is more grim and cautionary than Dove's hotly debated Real Beauty Sketches. Via k3hamilton
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There is a lot of emphasis on the imagery related to women---and it's about time. This includes self-perceptions as in the new DOVE campaign. Delete the scoop?
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Scaling Up AI with Generative Journalism, was prepared to introduce Appreciative Inquiry practitioners to a kindred-spirited way to catalyze change narrative. Originally…
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Imagine positive media storytelling---! Delete the scoop?
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Museums have been hesitant to get onboard with mobile learning. Here is a recent survey. Delete the scoop?
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Leave it to Dove to crank out a powerful ad about beauty that you'll still be thinking about days from now.
Linda Alexander's insight:
This is a very clever, creative way to connect Dove to beauty. It is not an obvious way to connect a product to a message, which makes it work all the better. And the experiment is interesting on a personal level because it stays with you for some time, although I am interested in better understanding their research and the evidence that this outcome, that we see ourselves as less beautiful than the general public, is fairly consistent across the human population of women. Delete the scoop?
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"Check out what the artists who drew, painted, sculpted, photographed, and illustrated all the images for our 2012 and 2013 stamps do when they're not creating art for the Postal Service." Via Salome Tam
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I have an old stamp collection from my great grandmother. If you love stamps, this post will thrill you. Delete the scoop?
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A yearlong illustrated celebration of remarkable women who shaped the world and our place in it.
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I simply love this perspective on art: "One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves." --Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929 — March 27, 2012)
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p/ppThe 2013 global leaders in technology design media music movies marketing television sports and more. /ppWhat have you learned from the world's...
Linda Alexander's insight:
Yes, a really interesting list to review and consider in terms of their creative focus or the company they actually represent. Let's take Nate Silver, listed at #1 here. Nate is asked if big data is the next revolution. Nate responds that we almost never know the next revolution before it actually happens. That's true... As for Nate Silver himself the article shares, "he has shown every doubter, with almost unerring consistency, that a skinny supernerd with a big data set and a killer algorithm can be a swashbuckler, too. Silver's Wikipedia entry now clocks in at more than 6,100 words--about double the length of the entry on Bob Woodward, the legendary Watergate reporter. No journalist has ever become so famous so fast, let alone so fluent in statistics. Delete the scoop?
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You can't selfmonitor your way to innovation. A jovial office environment is hugely important and a few good laughs can change everything at work. Via MyCreativeTeam Delete the scoop?
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The largest collection of interior design and decorating ideas on the Internet, including kitchens and bathrooms. Over 1,000,000 inspiring photos and 90,000 idea books from top designers around the world.
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I have been cruising houzz for so long that I forget to tell people about it. This is one of my favorite houseware sites. I have an "ideabook" where I post materials, accessories or rooms that I like. When we redid our fireplace, I found the perfect example on Houzz and simply showed it to our stone mason. Delete the scoop?
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As organizations and individuals succeed, it gets more difficult to innovate. There are issues of coordination, sure, but mostly it's about fear. The fear of failing is greater, because it seems as though you've got more to lose.
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Even in a short blurb...always thought-provoking! Delete the scoop?
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What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. Via Kat Haber
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A 2:24 minute TED on our electronic tatoos and four lessons from the Greeks regarding: 1. Sisyphus: our electronic reputation 2. Orpheus & Eurydice: not to look back to far 3. Atalanta & Hippomenes: remembering your purpose 4. Narcissus: Don't fall in love with your own reflection and a Latin lesson about the threat of immortality.
Great reflective piece for anyone, students included, who spend a lot of time online... Delete the scoop?
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They're young. They're smart. And they're doing great things in tech.
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These innovative and creative women need to be recognized. It is especially helpful in terms of modeling the need for girls to enter the STEM fields... Delete the scoop?
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Parents who are raising children with a practice known as elimination communication say it can keep diapers out of landfills and help them bond with their offspring.
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Here the interesting, environmentally sensitive motivation for this new method:
"Parents are drawn to the method as a way of preserving the environment from the ravages of disposable diapers, as well as reducing the laundering of cloth diapers and preventing diaper rash." So, there! Delete the scoop?
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How do we restore intuition in our leadership style? How can systems thinking tools help make better decisions? Delete the scoop?
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The most innovative companies really do think differently, here's how they develop a culture of creativity. Via MyCreativeTeam Delete the scoop?
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When a bunch of people get into an elevator, do they segregate in any predictable way? Do tall ones stand in the back? Do men stand in different places than women? Who looks where? Delete the scoop?
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Looking to hire for creativity? Research says you should look for these traits (but, be warned, not all of them make someone easy to work with). Via MyCreativeTeam
Linda Alexander's insight:
An interesting study on the personality traits of highly creative people. Some traits are widely considered positive characteristics while other traits negative. Overall, while the study results are interesting, it's always important that we don't place people in specific boxes. There are always wide variations of traits in any human population. 
Douglas Eby's curator insight,
April 18, 9:27 PM
Also see related posts in my article Personality Traits and Being More Creative http://thecreativemind.net/411/personality-traits-and-being-more-creative/ Delete the scoop?
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