October 2011
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Creativity Crisis - Are you Ready?
1500 CEOs surveyed ranked creativity the #1 competency of future leadership.
The average lifespan of Fortune 500 companies is dropping.
CEO’s expect continued disruption.
60% of CEO’s say complexity is expected to rise and half doubt their ability to manage it.
If you are a leader that needs to become creative as well a leader that wants to become MORE creative.
In fact, if...
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Watchoninnovations:
SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott spoke with the Washington Post’s Emi Kolawole about what it takes to inspire, capture and communicate great ideas regardless of where you are.
Great ideas don’t always come from a fancy consultant with a binder
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Ready for another Creative Test Tuesday?
Quickly, what one word can create a compound word with each of these three words:
dress
dial
flower
(Last week’s answer: Party)
View all our Compound Remote Association Problems here and stretch your creative muscles this week.
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Introducing the Creative Leadership Academy
Wall Street pressures are at an all-time high and incremental isn’t cutting it. Stakeholders expect dramatic results. The buzzword du jour is “different”.
Where do you go to learn to think different… to be different… to deliver different?
Enter The Creative Leadership Academy (CLA), brought to you by the world’s largest business to business information company IIR, an Informa company. Some brands...
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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and...”
– Albert Einstein (via schnozberries14)
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Ideas@Innovations: Is college dead: Do too many... →
oninnovations:
The Washington Post’s Vivek Wadhwa will debate PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel Wednesday evening regarding a subject the two have disagreed on for some time: Whether America’s youth should attend traditional colleges? Wadhwa argues that America’s next generation cannot afford to abandon the…
Rethinking education, what can we learn by doing things differently?
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Creative Test Tuesday
Two weeks ago, we introduced Compound Remote Association Problems. In these problems you will hone your creative thinking skills by finding the one word that unites three unrelated words. Quickly, what ties these words together?
master toss finger
(Last week’s answer: Party)
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Creative Test Tuesday
Time to stretch your creative muscles.
In Compound Remote Association Problems, three words are presented and there is one solution word that ties the three unrelated words together through a compound word or phrase. Think creatively to find the solution.
Quickly, what word ties the following together?
political
surprise
line
(Last week’s answer: Gold)
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Creative Test Tuesday
Time to stretch your creative muscles.
In Compound Remote Association Problems, three words are presented, there is one solution word that will unite the three. The solution word is associated with all three words through formation of a compound word or phrase. Think creatively to find the solution.
Quickly, what word ties the following together?
fish
mine
rush
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WatchPop Quiz! How many solutions are there for most problems you face? Take a lesson from the Creative Leadership Academy with this video, and challenge yourself to find more answers.
