It’s harder to unpick things when they go wrong
Our Silicon Beach interview specials continue. This time with Peter Smithson from Kingston Smith accountants, who specialise in entrepreneurial and creative businesses. I caught up with him to find...
SMART objectives are the enemy of creativity. Here’s the alternative.
I help my clients build a strong relationship with creativity. A relationship describes the qualities of a connection or interaction and creativity means the art of solving problems under...
How to Hire More Creativity into Your Organisation
Let’s be honest. What recent changes have you made to your recruitment process to better hire more creativity into your organisation? A major overhaul? A few tweaks? None? For...
How could Donald Trump impact the world of creativity?
Today the world is a bit more nervous than it was yesterday. The new POTUS brings with him policies and attitudes and opinions that make millions of people feel...
Diversity & Divergency: one without the other is useless
Yesterday I announced our upcoming series exploring ‘Diversity & Divergency’ throughout March and April. You’ll be familiar with ‘diversity’ but ‘divergency’ is something that you may not have heard...
We’re diving deep. Grab your thinking flippers.
From the very beginning, Open for Ideas has been focused on sharing the best thinking on the entire idea process, from start to finish. We want to help everyone...
The CV is getting a little outdated
Last year at Silicon Beach, I managed to catch up with Martin Pardey from Hays Recruitment, who were one of the sponsors, to talk about creativity and recruitment. I wanted to...
The Value of Magic. And what that means for creativity.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from #8221; – Arthur C Clark Magic has been on my mind of late. Like a lurking suspicion. A sneaky little thought trying...
Our notion of creativity and innovation simply doesn’t reflect reality
Mark Earls is an absolute legend. I knew of him long before I actually knew him. His book, Herd, is a fantastic handbook on behavioural science and what it...
Lacking creativity in your organisation? Start a little war.
Quarrel, discord, conflict… these are not exactly words that you would associate with great teamwork. Because we learned to listen to each other, to defer our judgment and to...