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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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Survey Reveals 6 Important Truths About Men, Women, and Success

November 14, 2013

Here is a brief article by Nina Bahadur for The Huffington Post. To check out an abundance of other superb articles, please click here. * * * Success can mean anything from securing a corner office at a major corporation…

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Digital Footprints: The Journey from Business Intelligence to Analytics

November 13, 2013

Here is a brief article by Geoffrey Moore for LinkedIn. To read entertaining as well as informative articles by other thought leaders, please click here. Photo: alengo / Getty Images * * * Big Data and Analytics are still a…

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The Myths of Creativity: A book review by Bob Morris

November 13, 2013

As I worked my way through Burkus’ lively and eloquent narrative, I was also keenly interested in his discussion Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s insights relevant to incubation in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1997): “Once the incubation stage…

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Tim Ferriss: On The Creative Process and Getting Your Work Noticed

November 13, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Tim Ferriss by Ariston Anderson for the website of 99U: Insights on making ideas happen by Bēhance. To read the complete interview, check out other resources, and learn more about 99U,…

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Rewiring the Brain to Eliminate Fear

November 12, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. for Psychology Today during which he explains using a pulse of medication to augment a behavioral therapy. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain…

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Johnny Carson: A book review by Bob Morris

November 12, 2013

Johnny Carson Henry Bushkin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) “Here’s Johnny!” or at least what he was willing to seem Let’s start with a multiple-choice question. According to Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson (1925-2005) could be (a) Irresistibly charming (b) Distant and…

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Teddy Roosevelt’s “Bully Pulpit” Isn’t the Platform It Once Was: An interview of Doris Kearns Goodwin

November 12, 2013

Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s latest of several brilliant biographies, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. Here is a brief excerpt of an interview of her by…

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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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Invaluable perspectives on the brainstorming process

November 11, 2013

Alex Osborn (1888-1966) was founding partner of one of the most highly regarded advertising agencies, BBDO, and is credited with introducing the brainstorming process in his book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Problem-Solving, published in 1957. His process…

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