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Creative individuals frame their experiences. Such people are highly ambitious, and they do not always succeed, by any means. But when they fail, they do not waste much time lamenting; blaming; or, at the extreme, quitting. Instead, regarding the failure as a learning experience, they try to build upon its lessons in their future endeavors. Framing is most succinctly captured in aphorism by French economist and visionary Jean Monnet: “I regard every defeat as an opportunity.
What lessons can we learn from the most creative people? Barking up the wrong tree
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“the relationship between constraint and creativity is like peanut butter and jelly…”

Like the idea of using the 140 characters of a tweet to drive creativity. Bonus points: Tweet your creative thought in 133 characters and tag it #TheCLA, we’ll repost our favorites.

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We’ve talked before about the power of interesting spaces to improve creativity, but this agency office in L.A. takes it to a new level.

We’ve talked before about the power of interesting spaces to improve creativity, but this agency office in L.A. takes it to a new level.

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This reminds me of CLA lesson 4. (also, cute dog!)

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Who is your CLA crush?

On site at The Creative Leadership Academy, Andy Stefanovich introduced the idea of “finding your CLA crush.”

Share your CLA Crush with us this Valentine’s Day. Do you have someone who’s work or ideas you connect with, someone who is passionate about what they do and who inspires you towards your own creativity? 

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inspirationfeed: Cool Book by Muthu Krish

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Cool Book by Muthu Krish

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laughingsquid: Team by Andy Rementer

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Team by Andy Rementer

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thedailyfeed: Toilet paper gets fabulously trendy, thanks to design guru Jonathan Adler. How do you make toilet paper trendy? Was that a daunting task?It was! My goal is to design the world and I feel like everything can be better. I thought, “What a great way to take something so everyday and make it better.” I wanted to take some of the patterns from my high-end collection that are probably out of a lot of people’s price range and put them on products that are super-duper-affordable and accessible to everyone.  What’s the best way to display toilet paper?Proudly! They’re individual covers but they look awful nifty in a stack. I have a whole wall of them, so it looks very groovy and graphic and conceptual. Challenge for today: “take something so everyday and make it better”

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Toilet paper gets fabulously trendy, thanks to design guru Jonathan Adler.

How do you make toilet paper trendy? Was that a daunting task?
It was! My goal is to design the world and I feel like everything can be better. I thought, “What a great way to take something so everyday and make it better.” I wanted to take some of the patterns from my high-end collection that are probably out of a lot of people’s price range and put them on products that are super-duper-affordable and accessible to everyone.

 What’s the best way to display toilet paper?
Proudly! They’re individual covers but they look awful nifty in a stack. I have a whole wall of them, so it looks very groovy and graphic and conceptual.

Challenge for today: “take something so everyday and make it better”

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Rethinking the Radiator liberates the heater from the wall and re-imagines it as a campfire.

(via npr)

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Make Your New Year’s Resolution to Gain More

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

A new year brings new resolutions. We ask ourselves how we can change for the better, how we can develop our strengths both personally and professionally, and ultimately how we can train our brain to think differently and maybe even more creatively.

Join us to GAIN insight, expand your tenacity for complex problem solving and transform your capacity for whole brain thinking. The Creative Leadership Academy (CLA) is YOUR opportunity to develop and advance your creative talents as a core competency in 2012. CLA illustrates the value of creativity, inspires disruptive thinking and transforms the business leader into an architect of tangible creative. This is achieved through the unique combination of formats, exploration and hands on instruction which is unlike anything else in existence.

The CLA syllabus starts with real world BUSINESS CASES that demonstrate creativity in practice and directly link back to business results.

• Creative Leadership in Action

• Common Ground: Overcoming Boundaries and Finding New Purpose • Re-Imagining the Crotonville Experience

• Biomimicry: The Newest Approach to Innovation

• Creativity is Our Business Currency: How Coca-Cola Builds Internal Entrepreneurial Capability and Spirit

• Driving Change from the Inside Out Engage with the world’s most passionate and proactive thinkers.

The CLA PROVOCATEURS will expand your mind and encourage a creative flow.

• Andy Stefanovich • Daniel Pink • Chris Waugh • Jonah Lehrer • Andre Martin • LiAnne Yu • David Kuehler • Luke Williams • riCardo crespo

Become a creator through hands on CLA WORKSHOPS led by qualified instructors:

• Cultivating a Kaleidoscope Mind

• Food and Photo Styling - Secrets of a New York Stylist

• Flavor Creation

• Storytelling

• Visual Meetings and Teams: The Key to Practical Application of Creative Leadership

You are expected to deliver a breakthrough. This uniquely created experience teaches you how to achieve beyond the incremental.

Join CLA and learn how.

Regards, Your CLA Team

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The Creative Leadership Academy

Creativity can be taught.

Complexity calls for today’s leader to employ whole brain thinking. CLA is uniquely designed to uncover, unleash and develop the business leader’s creative talents as a core competency. CLA is not a conference but rather a curated solution to an unmet need. You will understand by seeing; believe by hearing; and achieve by doing. Enrollment limited to first 150. Creativity can be taught.

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