What are some recent things you've seen lately that you believe are just great, creative ideas? Please post!
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Over the next few weeks I'd like to explore and offer my thoughts about creativity. What it is and what helps foster it. Please chime in with any thoughts or opinions. We'd love to hear from you.
A couple of my favorite creativity quotes to think about:
Good taste is the enemy of creativity. –Pablo Picasso
Imagination is the beginning of creation. –George Bernard Shaw
Creative activity increases creative ability. –Harry Lorayne
What is Creativity?
Imagination
Originality
From the heart
From the soul
Personal
Feelings
Whatcha think?
Here’s something that I have tacked on my wall in my home office. I apologize for not giving credit to the author, but honestly, I can’t remember and have no record of it.
Harnessing (or choking off) Creativity
Companies may identify fresh thinking as a core value, but this doesn’t square with a corporate strategy in which minimising risk is seen as a virtue. How can an organization adapt its culture to embrace innovation?
TWELVE THINGS PEOPLE SAY TO KILL GOOD IDEAS
It’s too risky/unpredictable. (In the Gold Rush of 1849, people made money through the creative production of commodity shovels, not from
stab-in-the-dust exploration.)
Best to be a fast follower, not a first mover.
It will cannibalise sales of our existing products and services, in which we’ve made a large investment. You can’t just write that off.
We haven’t got a budget for that/we’ll have to cut money from other departments in order to find the funds.
Engineering/Human Resources/Legal/Ethics/shareholder activists say it can’t or shouldn’t be done.
We’re too big and cumbersome to make the most of this and other ideas. We need to form partnerships with SMEs, government labs and universities, or set up an autonomous unit.
We/somebody else did that before and it failed.
Our suppliers will never rise to the challenge.
The punters are so dumb they will never buy it/will snap up every one we’ve got.
Punters and sales staff will be too slow to grasp how it works. Anyway, they don’t need to know that and, apart from a few geeks, aren’t usually interested.
We need to protect our intellectual property and our brand at all costs: diverting resources into this innovation doesn’t help in that.
It’s impossible to forecast the market for this innovation.
Have you avoided killing ideas today?