Clément Ader invented man-powered flight (and not the brothers Wright)
Our society glorifies the one or two persons that finalise an invention up to a point the rest of us can finally imagine its potential. Before that point,
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Clément Ader invented man-powered flight (and not the brothers Wright)
Our society glorifies the one or two persons that finalise an invention up to a point the rest of us can finally imagine its potential. Before that point,
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49 ways to spice up your meetings
Henry Ford would have loved producing our current day meetings the way he produced his cars. His famous ‘any colour – so long as it’s black’ would have marvelously fit the numerous meetings that are being churned out worldwide.
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Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scholars on creativity. He is author of the bestseller ‘Group Genius
’ that focusses on group creativity. He has just released his new book ‘Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity
’ in which he shows that the creative process is not and should not be approached as a straight line.
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What happens when you’re at a conference where the line-up of speakers is greater than at any conference you’ve been so far at. You get inspired, overloaded with fresh ideas and energised to give your own activities a new boost.
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Simple things are powerful. The title ‘Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite’
is one of those powerful simple things. To refresh the memory: it’s the title of a great little book by Paul Arden.
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I’ve already blogged about how ideas propagate. Richard Dawkins stated they do this the same way as our genes. Ideas travel from mind to mind, are being used, recombine, fall apart, get lost and father new ideas.
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Improvisation is a form of creativity, albeit a very special one. Because improvisation is a creativity act with immediate result. There is no time separation between idea generation (composition) and the execution of the idea. When asked to explain the difference in no more than 15 seconds Jazz Saxophonist Steve Lacy gave the following answer:
‘In 15 seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds,
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