Creativity: The Secret Behind the Secret

Many companies unintentionally hinder creativity, so learning how to motivate creative employees can give you an advantage over your competition. The way you treat creative employees has a snowball effect on the organisation as a whole. “Companies forget that employees talk [to each other],” says James Berry, an entrepreneur and management professor at University College London. “The positive and negative effects of [a company's response to] creativity often spiral, so you want them to spiral in a positive direction.”

Nobody would argue that Torrance’s tasks, which have become the gold standard in creativity assessment, measure creativity perfectly. What’s shocking is how incredibly well Torrance’s creativity index predicted those kids’ creative accomplishments as adults. Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance’s tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers.

As business continues to drive positive change in the world, creativity is an increasingly essential part of organizational success. Encouraging creativity is a vital function of good leadership in any organization.

There are few commencement speeches that last beyond the day they're given.

What are the connections between these three things? First: Comics – the magic happens in the gaps between panels In his terrific book Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud explains that comics are special because all of the real action occurs in the gaps between panels – this is the part that readers fill in using their imagination.

What do the following have in common: Peter’s question: “Just where are those institutions that harness talent and foster creativity?”; Paul’s complaint that the media and other creative industries prefer nepotism and short-termism to financing creativity; Philip Delves Broughton’s

The U.S. space agency is counting on private investors to help invent and manufacture new technologies to protect the Earth from stray asteroids. Industry executives will be briefed today in Washington about the planned 2025 mission to put a 500 metric-ton asteroid in orbit around the moon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief Charles Bolden told reporters today in Vienna during a visit to the United Nations space agency.

An Australian court ruling has quoted at length from internal emails sent between brass at Young & Rubicam over the hiring of Reed Collins from Leo Burnett to become national creative director at The Campaign Palace, a unit of Y&R in Australia.