Tag: creative personality

To understand how people were creative at work, I spent time watching and interviewing clients and colleagues approach a typical assignment. It was fascinating because everyone used a different system.

An interesting article about an evergreen question: Can creativity be taught? Here’s the rub. The question isn’t answered in this article from FastCompany, but all the same, author Evie Nagy

I talk often about how to facilitate a better brainstorm, but this time I want to focus on the participants themselves – specifically, how can you be a better brainstormer

When someone asks me out for coffee (literally or figuratively), they often follow their invitation with this declaration. “I want to be a brainstorm facilitator.” Like any occupation, a brainstorm

Leverage People’s Differences is Post #6 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here.

When you read a typical list of the characteristics of a creative person, you sometimes have to wonder if it’s a complement. Some of them are attributes I admire now,

A big fan of lists, I kept an article entitled The Innovator vs. The Pseudo-Innovator for its insight into the characteristics of an innovator. It’s a good list for two specific reasons.

Here’s something a tad embarrassing. I was born on the same day as legendary inventor Thomas Edison (well, 115 year later). Ever since I realised who we was and what he

One way to instantly improve the quality of your creativity is to invite the right people to the brainstorm. A brainstorm should not be a cattle call (“let’s invite everybody!”),