Responding rationally to a world that no longer exists
Eddie Obeng works with companies, teaching them a management theory that’s all about adapting to change. And in this talk, he showed how businesses are approaching innovation wrong. He...
Innovation seems a bit geeky to some people
We’re continuing our Silicon Beach special interviews this week with a conversation with LV’s Fast-Track Director, Rod Willmott. The first thing I asked Rod was what the heck a Fast-Track...
The Million Pound Button: When creativity meets analytics
The instantaneous and continuous nature of how we measure the effectiveness of our creative work presents daily challenges for our team. For most of my career, I’ve worked for...
Real innovation comes from passionate communities
Charles Leadbetter is a former journalist. author and government adviser on innovation and creativity. He works with the influential think tank, Demos, and is involved with some of the...
How to manage for collective creativity
Linda Hill is a Professor at Harvard Business School who studies collective genius. In 2014, she gave a brilliant TED talk where she shared her findings from a study of leaders...
Beware the TED talk
One of the most creative things many people have to do in their day job is prepare and deliver presentations. So Byron, our regular contributor and former Apple presentation...
Your tools are using you
Getting Cosy with Creativity – with Aran Rees “If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning I’d hammer in the evening, All over this land I’d hammer...
Spotting the dots – inspiring input leads to inspired output
A Beginner’s Guide to Human Insight by John J Sills In the second part of John’s series on A Beginner’s Guide to Human Insight, he looks at the importance...
Science shows brainstorms don’t work. Why do we still use them?
Brainstorming was first introduced to the world in 1942. It was outlined in the book How To Think Up by Alex Osborn, one of the founders of advertising agency BBDO....
Repeat after me: you are not a robot and that’s a good thing
Getting Cosy with Creativity – with Aran Rees As an avid gadget glutton, an app junkie, and a man with a systemic inflammatory condition that might have crippled him...