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Creativity 2011 – Week #48

Your Creative Genius Mindset - Creativity allows us to think outside of the box, around the box and through the box in an imaginative and free flowing manner.

8 Counter-Intuitive Ways To Improve Your Well-Being & Creativity –  To help you break the busy-ness cycle and work happier, we’ve rounded up a handful of counter-intuitive ways to tweak your habits and your mindset.

Creativity Boost

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We’ve been providing a series of creativity boosting exercises. I’m putting them all together here to make it easier for you to navigate to them.

Creativity Boost #1 - Creativity is one of the key topics we discuss here at THINKing. So, we decided to develop a series of posts that focuses on ways to boost your creativity. Today’s boost: the mindtrip.

Desperate Measures

Raise your hand if you get a lot of emails from – or send a lot of emails to – “professionals” trying to sell the latest marketing and advertising answer to all your lead generating and new business problems.  Yeah, about that. If your “solution” works so damned well, you wouldn’t need to send me your email to let me know about it.

Creativity 2011 – Week #47

Creativity Rated #1 Trait In IBM Poll - Creativity is now considered the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even integrity and global thinking, according to a much-referenced recent study by IBM.

Difference Between Artistic and Creative Ability –  Sometimes we confuse artistic ability with creativity. If I can’t paint or draw, I”m not creative. Not true.

Creativity Boost #3 – Dictionary Excursion

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Today, we’re heading to the dictionary for a creativity boost. Here’s what I want you to do:

You’re going to select six words and use them to write a story of less than 250 words. You will select your six words from:

Painless Giving

If you’ve been with us here for a while, you know that every year we promote Holiday For Charity, which is the idea of asking friends and family to donate to charity in our name instead of giving us Christmas gifts. Charitable giving can do wonders for an organization’s reputation. We’ll talk more about Holiday For Charity in a later post, but today, I wanted to discuss some other painless ways to assist charities.

Creativity 2011 – Week #46

How To Think Creatively - The first key to intentionally nurturing our creativity is to understand how it works.

Need To Create? Get A Constraint - One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints and restrictions.

Creativity 2011 – Week #45

Cool Gadgets For Creative Offices - Each designer or agency office should be filled with creative and innovative gadgets that surprise our clients and stimulate the imagination.

Clorox Involves Fans In Innovation-  Clorox is doing some exciting things in community management. Its latest initiative is designed to get fans, customers and professionals to submit ideas to build new and better products.

Social Media Is Like…

Sometime back I saw this post, which included a link to one of ours, and I thought it was a clever idea- so clever that it needed to be updated. What is social media like? We compared it to a mullet.

Others say social media is like…