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Workplace Creativity Articles
| Are You Living Your Career Dreams? |
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Charlene Rashkow Inherent within the human spirit is the desire for fulfillment, a longing to carry out our creative aspirations by reaching new heights of accomplishment. Yet often the yearning can be suppressed by fear. ...  |
| Being Serious Won't Make You Silly, Yet Being Silly Can Help You Be More Serious |
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Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. Over 35 years of working in creative fields and working with people striving to be more creative or use more creativity I have discovered that silly has its place in the serious workplace. ... |
| My Creative Juices Are All Dried up |
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Jenett Zubero Five Ways to Take the Opportunity When Creative Juices are All Dried Up - As an entrepreneur or business owner, it is crucial that we are creative in our work endeavors; it simply helps us to be noticed over our competition. ... |
| People Are Note Pegs |
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Robert "...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. ... |
| Be a Maverick. But I Ain't No Maverick, Don't Want to Be, and Besides I Would Lose My Job If I Was. |
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| New Idea? Don't Jump the Gun! |
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Azriel Winnettx Five years ago, an international consultant, specializing in employee involvement and team development, published a story relating to workplace communication that is heartwarming and damning at the same time. ... |
| Top Ten Ways to Generate Brilliant Ideas |
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Darren Roberts Here you will find ten of the best methods I have used in my organisation for idea generation. They have worked for me very well. I now share them with you. I trust they will assist you in your endeavours as they have done with mine. ... |
| The Greatest Resource of ANY Organization: |
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Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. For too many years people have been treated as expense items instead of highly valuable resources. The highly successful organizations from small shops to corporations and government agencies in the United States look upon people as resources of creativeness. ... |
| Develop Your Own Creative Think Tank |
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Brad Parker The attention economy is a star system. ... If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won't get noticed, and that increasingly means you won't get paid much either. ... |
| Unleasing Meeting Creativity |
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Tom LaForce Everyday thousands of meetings are held in hope of finding creative solutions to troubling problems. When successful, participants describe the meetings as fun, energizing, and productive. ... |
| Breaking Crayons Produces Creativity |
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Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. Class now take out your pretty crayons. Remember we want to keep them neat. Handle them carefully. We don't want to break them. Across the United States school teachers continually tell their students this daily. ... |
| Top Ten Ways to Gain Clarity Around an Issue |
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Erica Wang Issues and major decisions often arrive on the doorstep with a lot of baggage: emotions, fears, risks, and consequences. Changing your perspective on an issue might help you find a win-win solution. Here are a few creative ways to expand your perspectives on the issue. ... |
| I Meet My Shadow in the Deepening Shade: Poetry in the Workplace |
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Mary Bast David Whyte, in The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, writes, "If there is one common experience of complexity in the workplace, it would be the experience of feeling lost... ... |
| Overcoming Idea Barriers In The Workplace - Part 1 |
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Paul Rousseau For humans, creating is quite ordinary (Weisberg 1986; Perkins, 1981). ... |
| Overcoming Idea Barriers In The Workplace: Part II |
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Paul Rousseau Finding a Home For Your Ideas It's difficult to recognize and develop ideas in a vacuum. ... |
| Overcoming Idea Barriers In The Workplace: Part III |
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Paul Rousseau Making Workplaces Idea Friendly Imagine this. You're at a meeting and your supervisor, who is chairing the meeting, announces a "great idea." No matter how poor the idea, few if any will say anything against it. ... |
| A Quick Course in Creativity |
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Paul McNeese This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions. ... |
| Out-of-Box, In-the-Box, New-Box, Other-Box, No-Box Thinking |
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Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. For years supporters and detractors of creative thinking in the workplace have talked about Out-of-the-Box Thinking. ... |
| Business Meeting Creativity Ideas |
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Craig Cortello Developing an innovative spirit in the workplace doesn't require extraordinary measures. As a manager, you can experiment with simple ideas that merely break routines, allowing your employees permission to drop the facade that we all don to some degree when we punch the clock. ... |
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| Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus |
 By Roger Von Oech. "The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was famous for his brilliant and provocative sayings. Today, more than 2,500 years after they were written, his ideas about life, nature, and the cosmos remain as startlingly original as ever. In Expect the Unexpected (Or You Won't Find It), Roger von Oech uses thirty of Heraclitus' epigrams as springboards to dazzling creativity. Treating each saying as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, he supplies amusing anecdotes, mind-bending riddles, hidden jokes, and intriguing questions designed to topple old habits of thought and fire the imagination. |
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| Your Heart's Desire : Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want |
 By Sonia Choquette. "Nationally known intuitive and spiritual leader Sonia Choquette shares the nine universal principles for creating the reality of your dreams. Step by step, with practical advice, specific exercises, and modern-day parables, she teaches readers to make the changes in thought and behavior that will lead them to the attainment of their most heartfelt desires." |
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| Affirmations for Artists |
 by Eric Maisel. "Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses. This book of affirmations is compiled with the special needs of artistic persons in mind. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic (Disbelief, Imitation, Talent), each page includes a handful of relevant quotations by writers, musicians, actors, or other creative people, a commentary by the author, and, of course, an affirmation." |