Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

Bernhard Schroder’s Simply Briliant: A book review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2016

Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…

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Two huge market segments floating in a blue ocean

October 24, 2016

In Simply Brilliant, Bernard Schroeder explains how specific “tools” can unlock creativity and spark new ideas. I agree with Abraham Maslow: “The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?…We have got…

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Creativity: A Treasury of Observations and Insights

January 25, 2016

Creative thinking is essential to making something new (invention) or something better (innovation) . I agree with David and Tom Kelley, co-authors of Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All , that almost anyone can think more creatively about what…

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David Kelley on “How to Build Your Creative Confidence”

December 2, 2015

About three years ago, David Kelley delivered a TED Talk that has since been seen by almost 4,000,000 people all over the world. He is the founder and chairman of IDEO. He also founded Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of…

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Creative Strategy Generation: A book review by Bob Morris

August 17, 2015

Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and Growth Bob Caporale McGraw-Hill (2015) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Throughout the last several decades, I have been…

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A mini-interview of Bernie Roth, author of The Achievement Habit

July 2, 2015

I have just read Bernard Roth‘s The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life and will soon review it. Meanwhile, here is a mini-interview of Roth by his friend and colleague, David Kelley. Thank you,…

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David and Tom Kelley on “Why Creativity Is Like Karaoke”

February 12, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine. IDEO founders David and Tom Kelley share their thoughts about building a creative culture. To read the complete article and c heck out others, please click…

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The Secret to Innovation: Think Like a Kid

November 14, 2013

Here is a brief article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn in which he shares his thoughts about how naturally creative children are and how important it us for all of us to help children sustain their creative confidence. His comment…

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David Burkus on “Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and the unconscious creative mind”

November 12, 2013

In his latest book, The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas, David Burkus dispels ten myths, including The Eureka Myth: “the notion that all creative ideas arrive in a ‘eureka’ moment.” The…

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Creative Confidence: A book review by Bob Morris

October 17, 2013

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All Tom Kelley and David Kelley Crown Business/Random House (2013) How almost anyone can develop a creative, human-centered mindset and help achieve breakthrough innovations I have read Tom Kelley’s books and am…

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