Topic: creativity
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Turn it up: How the right amount of ambient noise increases creativity
Monday, June 17, 2013 · Topics: attention-deficit-disorder, creativity, productivity
From 99U; Finding the right space to do creative work can be difficult. Inside the office, there are constant interruptions, last-minute meetings, and an often unbearable amount of uncontrollable noise. On the other hand, locking yourself away in quiet isolation can sometimes be just as counterproductive (not to mention boring). For most creatives there is a “Goldilocks” zone of just the right amount of noise, but not too much. · Go to Turn it up: How the right amount of ambient noise increases creativity →
6 ways to create a culture of innovation
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 · Topics: creativity, employee-engagement, innovation
From FastCompany: Every organization is designed to get the results it gets. Poor performance comes from a poorly designed organization. Superior results emerge when strategies, business models, structure, processes, technologies, tools, and reward systems fire on all cylinders in symphonic unison.
Savvy leaders shape the culture of their company to drive innovation. They know that it’s culture–the values, norms, unconscious messages, and subtle behaviors of leaders and employees–that often limits performance. These invisible forces are responsible for the fact that 70% of all organizational change efforts fail. The trick? Design the interplay between the company’s explicit strategies with the ways people actually relate to one another and to the organization. · Go to 6 ways to create a culture of innovation →
5 things you can do today to make yourself more creative and productive tomorrow
Friday, June 7, 2013 · Topics: creativity, productivity
From Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People report: Simon Rich, one of the most productive writers we know, outlines 5 steps to upping your own creativity quotient. · Go to 5 things you can do today to make yourself more creative and productive tomorrow →
From Beethoven to Woody Allen: Daily rituals of the world’s most creative people
Thursday, May 30, 2013 · Topics: creativity, productivity
From FastCompany: Beethoven and Woody Allen bathed their way to genius. Dickens (and just about everyone else) walked. And you don’t want to know how Thomas Wolfe got the juices flowing. Mason Currey, author of “Daily Rituals: How Artists Work” shares some of the surprising work modes of history’s most creative. · Go to From Beethoven to Woody Allen: Daily rituals of the world’s most creative people →
Creative people say no
Thursday, May 30, 2013 · Topics: creativity, inspiration, productivity
From Kevin Ashton: Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation. The common thread that links creators is how they spend their time. No matter what you read, no matter what they claim, nearly all creators spend nearly all their time on the work of creation. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes. · Go to Creative people say no →
Why productive people have empty schedules
Thursday, May 30, 2013 · Topics: creativity, productivity
From FastCompany: What’s the one resource you can’t borrow, invest, or recover? Time. Lessons on guarding yours by Warren Buffett, Peter Drucker, Charles Dickens, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, and others. · Go to Why productive people have empty schedules →
The most creative people in entertainment, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013 · Topics: creativity, trends
From FastCompany: They’re pioneers of a new era of braniac TV and the creative thinkers who are artfully finding profit in the music industry — from our Most Creative People 2013 list. · Go to The most creative people in entertainment, 2013 →
Kill your darlings and 4 more rules for doing creative work
Thursday, May 30, 2013 · Topics: creativity, innovation
From FastCompany: In Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers, author Janet Malcolm reveals creative insights from artists ranging from Diane Arbus to Gossip Girl creator Cecily von Ziegesar. · Go to Kill your darlings and 4 more rules for doing creative work →
