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| A great project that orders and classifies the most important creative techniques, using exhaustive slides, completed by references and sources. Search for other useful tools in the main menu. General. |
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| Perhaps the most comprehensive single source on creativity ever published. Two expensive volumes of 800+ pages. Click here for an extensive free excerpt. Technical-general. |
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| A good site structured on the Wikipedia model that promotes the courses and activities of a company specializing in creativity and innovation, with lots of free material. Don’t miss the section on Creativity Techniques. General. |
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| If you’re less interested in answers than in the process of discovery, take a surf through Serendip, where you’ll find an odd map, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and some cool visual tricks. General. |
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| Metaphors of creativity are often visual (to have an illumination, a flash of genius…). Representing problems is useful. Find the most fertile visualization among these, organized like Mendeleev’s periodic table. Technical-General. |
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| Metaphors are very good tools to improve artistic and scientific creativity, communication and persuasiveness. The observatory points out the newest ones, comments the most common and rewards the best ones. General. |
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| Online graphic dictionary that starts with a word and then expands it across the screen to show the branching of meanings. Modeled on the neuronal network. Try clicking “idea” or “creativity”. Instructions and legend included. General. |
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Breaking Mindset - Allan W. Snyder - Centerforthemind.com |
| Why is it so difficult to question our beliefs? Subverting them can give us a new vision. Childhood autism suggests how a mind free of paradigms might work. Technical-General. |
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| Different models for the creative process (Wallas, Barron, Rossman, Osborn...) are compared, up to the Creativity Cycle. A very good article that gives an order to the complexity of theories on creativity. Technical-General. |
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| Is there a direct correlation between psychotic personality and creativity? Shane K. Porzio revisits Eysenck’s theory of personality and says there is: it’s a matter of over-inclusive thinking. Specialized. |
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Here's an idea! - Jill Rosenfeld - Fast Company |
| Here’s what some of the world’s most brilliant minds think about innovation. Managers, artists, scientists and writers recount their experiences and their methods: how they work, invent, and deal with difficulties. General. |
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| What can managers do to support and motivate workers in the workplace and obtain better results, and in what ways? Teresa Amabile offers some interesting suggestions. General. |
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Minding the muse - Peter K. Jacobs - Harvard B. School |
| Downsizing a company can have surprising effects on the creativity of the workers who remain and on the company’s strategic market position, as shown by the results of a study by Teresa Amabile and Regina Conti. General. |
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| Interesting study conducted by the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, which demonstrates that the non-conscious generation of ideas can be sparked even in the absence of a problem to be solved. Technical-General. |
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| The motivations for solving a problem are extrinsic (tangible compensation like money, awards) or intrinsic (passion, curiosity, the desire to challenge oneself). In the creative personality, the latter motivations prevail. General. |
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| Can creativity be measured? An Australian team has tried, using two categories – fluidity and flexibility (as theorized by Guilford) – and a sheet of paper. Here’s the tale of the testing. Specialized. |
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| The everyday behaviors of managers can have a positive or negative impact on the creativity and productivity of workers. Interview with Teresa Amabile, professor of Business Administration at Harvard. General. |
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| Teresa Amabile studies the behaviour of professional creative workers in the moments when they run into problems and new ideas are born. The results debunk six common assumptions about creativity. General. |
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| How can managers nourish creative thought even in stressful situations? Teresa Amabile talks about the relationship between lack of time and creative necessity in businesses and organizations. General. |
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| Where do creative people get their inspiration? Why do ideas often come when we’re least expecting them? Is it really impossible to learn how to be more creative? A psychologist responds. General. |
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