Creativity is squashed when people don’t feel valued
This week’s Silicon Beach interview is with Benita Motofska, a global expert on the sharing economy. I wanted to talk to her about how to successfully crowd-source ideas without generating...
Great employees are curious and explore things in their own time
Can you believe we’re still publishing these Silicon Beach interviews? And there’s still a few more to come. That was a busy couple of days! Today we’re bringing you...
Don’t make it complicated. Strategy is just having a plan.
We’re continuing our series of Silicon Beach interviews today with a chat about strategy. And I can’t think of anyone better to talk about that with than Richard Huntington,...
We need to design less stuff
A couple of months ago, the brilliant Pete Trainor from Nexus wrote a great article on how to create for chatbots. Before he wrote that article, the two of...
Playing to innovate – learning to do things just for the hell of it
This week our Friday film is an interview with the lovely Matt Ballantine from Stamp London, done at this year’s Silicon Beach (one of my favouritest conferences in the...
Come up with ideas while you hurt your legs
Welcome to our new video series. Slip your shoes off. Make yourself at home. A couple of months ago – while there was still a little whiff of English...
Yet another article on why brainstorms suck (But this one has video)
A couple of days ago I wrote a lengthy, scientific debunking of brainstorms. But I understand that not everyone likes to read long articles (fascinating as this one is)....
You don’t need a Eureka moment to have a good idea
I can’t believe it’s been a whole week since we posted the last creative lie. And here we are again wrestling another misunderstanding to the ground and kneeing it...
Being a great idea-generator isn’t about talent
It’s Friday. Thank crikey! Which means it’s time to gather round and stick the boot in another myth. It’s time for episode four of our Creative Lies series. This...
You don’t need to be intelligent to be creative
Time for episode 3 of our Creative Lies series, where we delicately handpick a common misunderstanding and unceremoniously ram it down the waste disposal unit. And this week, we’re...