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Useful Familiar + Useful Familiar = Value

For those of you who can’t find a fast, easy and reliable way to backup your tweets, my friend @dscofield alerted me to a very useful tool: Need to #Backup Tweets? I found a recipe at @ifttt that backups tweets to your dropbox – so easy & current! very cool! ow.ly/caWRp — Deb Mills-Scofield (@dscofield) [...]

Anything can be reimagined

Yes. It can. Starting from scratch is the most liberating, and disruptive, thing you can do. Here are a few sketches from the creative minds at Creature Box and how they’ve reimagined known superheroes:

How to boost your creative capacity

Those of us in the innovation space know that to be creative, you need to be very diverse in your education and life experiences. Not only as a person, but also as an organization. Put simply, diversity breeds breakthroughs.

What’s the best way to manage creative personalities at work?

Fight with them. Not against them. That’s how. These days, we are in serious need of creative firepower. And for all the startup incubators that are popping up everywhere, there still seems like creativity is a scarce resource. For me, creative personalities are passionate people who are not happy with the way things are and [...]

Where do you keep your ideas?

In yesterday’s post I shared my process of how I come up with my best ideas. Today, continuing our series of posts in support of the World Creativity and Innovation Week, the next question has to do with storage. If you’re like me, and is in brainstorm mode all the time, you have tools to [...]

How do you come up with your best ideas?

The World Creativity and Innovation Week started yesterday. It will run from April 15 – 21. With that said, I thought it would be cool to do a series of posts answering some common questions about creativity and innovation. I will start by answering them myself and will appreciate it if you add your own thoughts [...]

Disconnect to reconnect: Important creative habit

Although I believe my ability to retain information is pretty good, in recent weeks I’ve felt like it’s been challenged. So, I decided to disconnect from the one source that provides me with most of my information on a daily basis: Twitter. Information is coming at us from every angle and our cognitive abilities are [...]