Creativity

50 Great Productivity Tips from Famous People

October 11, 2012

The blog at onlineMBA has an interesting post called 50 terrific productivity secrets of the rich and famous. It’s a lot of fun, and some good tips too. You can see the highlights here in the graphic. But click the post … it’s hard to stop reading. They aren’t all straight lines to productivity, like [...]

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20 Excellent Online TED Talks

August 24, 2012

TED — stands for Technology, Education, and Design — is a great resource. They recently posted their top 20 most watched talks. This is a great resource. I’m happy to see that I’ve already posted, previously, several of these on this blog. And this is a great list.  Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity [...]

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Really Great Ideas Seem Obvious

July 5, 2012

Amazing fact (to me at least): the first wheels on suitcases appeared in the 1970s. My wife and I, both baby boomers, have asked ourselves: how is it possible that we all dealt with suitcases without wheels all the way through the 50s and 60s? What was wrong with all of us? And sliced bread first appeared [...]

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Whoops! New PR, New World

June 11, 2012

Oh dear. Those nasty activists. It looked at first like PR gone bad. me thinking it was dumb of Shell Oil to send a press release huffing and puffing about “activists” making fun of it. It looked like a press release. Curse you, activists! And like that. Shell is supposedly considering suing. The press release says:  [...]

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Could This Be You? One Great YouTube Launches a Startup

March 9, 2012

CNET’s Rafe Needleman posted about DollarShaveClub.com yesterday and I picked it up this morning. It seems that the key to a successful launch was one extremely-well-done one-minute video on YouTube, which I’ve embedded here: I find this inspirational. It’s fascinating how this one big hit can be so effective. How much would a couple of [...]

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The Brain Scientist’s Insight From Inside Out

July 15, 2011

She’s a brain scientist who studied the brain “from inside out” when she had a stroke. We should listen to what she discovered. And what we have to choose from. If you don’t see the video embedded here, you can click this link to go to the original on TED.com.

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Twitter and Problogger to the Copyright Rescue

January 28, 2011

OK, this is cool. The web makes copyright stealing so incredibly easy, and it’s extremely annoying when it happens to you. And it happens all the time. So you have to like this example. Here, to the right, is what Darren Rowse, blogger extraordinaire at problogger.net, @problogger on Twitter, decided to do about it. He [...]

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Who Knew? Actions Give Better Data Than Words

January 20, 2011

At first glance, Paying Star Employees Well is a Good Strategy for Innovation in a Stanford business school newsletter seems like one of those "no-doh" discoveries that happen when academics turn their focus on the real world and end up confirming the obvious. But I clicked, and read, and it turns out to be much [...]

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What Does Creativity Have to Do With Business?

November 2, 2010

What does creativity have to do with business? Business is about dollars and deadlines and suits, while creativity is about nerds and long hair and artsy-fartsy. Or is it? As the digital technology revolution matures, it is becoming more about creativity and less about engineering. That’s quoting Fred Wilson, venture capitalist and thought leader, in [...]

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Our Children Spread Their Dreams Under Our Feet. We Should Tread Softly.

June 4, 2010

This less-than-17-minute talk was posted on the TED ideas worth spreading site just a week or so ago. I think every one of us should take 17 minutes off and listen to this, and think about it. It’s funny. It’s interesting. And it’s important. Sir Ken Robinson starts with a reference to global climate change, [...]

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