Making Innovation Happen
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 01:00PM Do you find your creativity at a lull and needing a jolt at times? For extra spark, gain insights from leaders and designers to jump-start your creativity. Consider the following:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:20PM How do we know what other people are thinking? How do we judge them, and what happens in our brains when we do? MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe is tackling those tough questions and many others. Her goal is no less than understanding how the brain gives rise to the abilities that make us uniquely human–making moral judgments, developing belief systems and understanding language. It’s a huge task, but “different chunks of it can be bitten off in different ways,” she says. Saxe, who joined MIT’s faculty in 2006 as an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences, specializes in social cognition–how people interpret other people’s thoughts. It’s a difficult subject to get at, since people’s thoughts and beliefs can’t be observed directly.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 12:25AM I'm in Word. I write a sentence. I revise the second half. I delete it all. I try to recall the original. I think I've got it. I stare at the phrase "brought home to me." It starts to look funny. I google it. Minutes, sometimes hours, pass in this state of indecision. It's not how I'd like to work, but too often it is how I work. My only saving grace is that eventually my train of thought does find its focus, usually with nary a moment to spare. If I must make a 5:00 pm deadline, clarity shows up promptly at 4:47. It seems that as much as deadlines push me to action, the mounting pressure to make them sparks creativity. In a talk given for TEDIndia
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 04:01PM This is very old stuff Harvard is revisiting. There are many pieces of literature and many methodologies around creativity and discovery - best known and most popular currently is the Deep Dive video from IDEO. Nevertheless this short piece from the recent Harvard Editor's Blog is worth reading, simply to jolt the mind. . What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Ebay's Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G's A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how the "Innovators' DNA" works.This post is part of HarvardBusiness.org's Creativity at Work special package. Fryer: You conducted a six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews. During this study you found five "discovery skills" that distinguish them. What are these skills?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 10:58PM Apparently Einstein used to sleep 11 hours a day including naps
Many artistic creatives like Michelangelo survived on an average of 4 hours a day
How many hours do you need?
Do you work better at night?
You have heard the rhetoric...
Can someone who yawns, make you yawn...
Try some samples, while you think about it...
