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A dozen things any manager can do to inspire creative thinking in her direct reports, colleagues and organisation.

What little tips and tricks do you use to try and be as productive as possible each week plus be as motivated as possible? Here are a few I use:


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There’s a reason inspiration often strikes in the shower or on your drive to work: “Eureka!” moments happen when your mind is relaxed. Special relativity occurred to Albert Einstein while riding a streetcar home one day.

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100 images that can inspire you when you are brainstorming about new products or services.

Perhaps this is a sentiment that all writers can share to some extent. However, writing doesn't have to be a tortuous experience akin to banging your head against a wall.

Intuition is challenging to define, despite the huge role it plays in our everyday lives. Steve Jobs called it, for instance, "more powerful than intellect." But however we put it into words, we all, well, intuitively know just what it is.

Well kids, it’s a new week, and you know what that means: there’s a new book on innovation and creative thinking. The Wall Street Journal featured an excerpt from “Inside the Box: A Proven System o...

Une étude récente a montré que le travail de groupe « affaiblit la créativité et les capacités intellectuelles ».

As the chief executive of a private equity firm I am always on the look-out for the UK’s brightest and most innovative talent. My role as chairman of the Government’s Start-Up Loan scheme (Creativity can be a difficult notion to grasp.

Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats has become a very well-known framework over the years since he first wrote about the concept and the first edition of his book was published way back in 1985.A way of describing different kinds (Another great post...

Story – This tipped my design ideas away from a risky tiny squishy Open Space session to drawing from Christina Baldwin's work with story and the Art of Hosting's Collective Story Harvest process. Follow the Energy – Always ...