Archive for 2010
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 ...
Posted in Creative Problem Solving (CPS), Creativity and Self-Expression, Innovation, Inspirational | 3 Comments »
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, ...
Posted in Creative Problem Solving (CPS), Innovation, Marketing | 4 Comments »
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 »
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Off to London today to run an idea generation session with a start-up. Yes! I'm as jazzed as Charlie Parker on a double expresso.
My mind if filled with excitement and my heart is filled with Hope.
It occurs to me that those intrepid folks who start new ventures, large and small, ...
Posted in Entrepreneurial, Innovation, Inspirational | 2 Comments »
