All Entries Tagged With: "Creativity"

Around two years ago I wrote a manifesto for ‚ÄòChange This‚Äô on the topic of slow innovation. This was inspired by the founding of the ‚Äòslow food‚Äô movement by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini. After strolling past a new MacDonald’s franchise in the centre of Rome he paused and said: If this is fast food, why [...]

There are many different ways to come up with creative ideas. Common and yet useful ways include going to your local library to loan out books on creativity or signing up for a creativity workshop where the facilitator would get you to participate in certain activities to get your creative juices working. Allow me to [...]

You, your staff or even your boss have been on a course or bought a self help book that described some creative techniques. You have tried one or two and they sort of worked, but not as you had hoped. Or maybe they did not work at all. Why could this be? Sometimes Creativity just [...]

The editor of a Delhi based newspaper wrote an article bemoaning the fall in standards of the Indian Foreign Service. It was but natural that this article would be followed by a barrage of letters from readers, some agreeing with him and some not amused. Some of the letters were truly insightful and gave glimpses [...]

¬† Most readers will be familiar with, or have heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling business book ‘The Tipping Point’. The author suggests that there is a point at which you need apply only a small effort to create an effect. This is rather like giving the final push to topple a large boulder or [...]

Here is an example of T-shirt folding that I use when I want to demonstrate the point that “creativity is about making tasks/things faster/better”. The traditional way of folding a T-shirt takes about 15 seconds. A few years ago I received a video clip showing a Japanese lady folding a T-shirt much faster, taking about [...]

  Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois The popular perception is that creativity is just for writers, artists, scientists and advertising people. Nothing could be further from the truth.   Being creative is to have fresh perceptions and experience the world [...]