Learning isn’t enough. You also need to unlearn.
It is no longer safe to follow the path. The days of loyally serving a company (or two) for 40 years and obediently climbing...
Think NaNoWriMo is Just for Writers? Think Again.
A special series on the lessons we can all learn from NaNoWriMo – whether we want to write a novel or not. Lesson One: It’s...
When to murder your ideas
Good creative teams have innovative and brilliant ideas. Great creatives know when an idea has run its course and needs to die. For everyone’s...
Why you should stop recruiting for creativity
Getting Cosy with Creativity – with Aran Rees When I talk to people about creativity it can be like playing whack-a-mole with myths and...
We’re now also on Medium and Flipboard (and Facebook too)
In this modern age of the web, it’s not so much about luring people to a single digital destination to read your stuff, it’s...
A device that’s guaranteed to give you better ideas
You won’t be surprised to learn that we’re big fans of TED here. There’s such good thinking on there about creativity (as well as...
Would Clinton or Trump be better for innovation in business?
This is the first of our Sunday Surveys. And it makes sense to focus it on the most important issue of the moment: who’s...
Can we please stop referring to people as left or right brained?
In the second episode of our Creative Lies series, we’re taking another myth around the back of the barn in an effort to put...
Play. Your brain will thank you.
The Greek philosophers rained praise on play, hailing leisure time as the foundation of ‘the good life’. More recently, Professor Jonathan Gershuny, Oxford University’s...
How to cook-up a presentation like Jamie Oliver
Last week, I wrote about what Aristotle can teach us about creating the most persuasive presentations. Because, if you’ve got a good idea, you want...