Archive for the ‘Innovation’ Category
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Alright, maybe it's not that different, but I swear, Jimmy Fallon is pulling out all the stops to innovate and entertain on his late night show. Let's face it, being a big late night star is a high risk business, witness Conan O'Brien's crash and burn -- and Conan was ...
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Briefly noted:
Inc. Magazine's July/August issue features a blueprint for revitalizing the American economy "Bring on the Entrepreneurs". Essentially the plan would have thousands of new companies and millions of new jobs created.
Editor Jane Berenston organized a response to an op-ed column by Thomas L. Friedman in The New York Times ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_1290" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Whitney Ferre, author of "Creatively Fit" led the group in creating a mural, after a brief talk on the use of color."][/caption]
This is part two in a series of posts about the Three Oaks Creativity Weekend.
I've titled this series of posts "Letting Go" because that ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
My wife Caroline and I hosted a private gathering last weekend, specifically to do sharing around the concept of creativity. It was not a conference. Only 20 people attended, and that was intentional. I'm going to post a few times about this unique "creativity weekend" so let me give you ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
This weekend I'm hosting a group of friends here in Three Oaks. It's an interesting group and I'm looking forward to a lot of "new" input. I know that by Monday I'll have a list of new books to read, new ideas to develop, and newly refreshed friendships. This is ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Those of you who read this blog will know of the recent online debate I had with author Ashley Merryman. Essentially, I was not letting her get away with dismissing brainstorming. Ashley co-wrote a recent Newsweek article titled "Forget Brainstorming." While I liked the article generally, I hated the title, ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
There is quite a bandwagon rolling right now about Creativity.
5 years ago it seemed that Creativity was a bad word. You could never say it aloud at a corporation because what it meant wasn't new ideas, it was interpreted as "lack of control" or, even worse, those touchy-feely things that ...
Posted in Cartoons by Gregg Fraley, Creativity and Self-Expression, Humor, Innovation, Politics & Government, Trends, Futurism, and Research | 22 Comments »
