Creative Intensive

Are you ready for Super Bowl 2008? “In 2007, an average of 93.1 million Americans tuned in to the CBS Network to watch the Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears. The event averaged a 42.6% household rating, up from the 2006 match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, which was watched by 90.7 [...]

Article review by Senior Editors Kristi Ryan and Maggie Rieth In their article “Measuring Climate for Work Group Innovation: Development and Validation of the Team Climate Inventory” Anderson and West search for a way to measure the climate for innovation in “shared perception” work groups. They define shared perception as a level of interdependence between [...]

NPR Correspondent Ira Flatow Presents From Dracula to Hedy Lamarr – The Many Catalysts of Creativity Tuesday, Nov. 13, 6-7pm Location: The Avaya Auditorium, The University of Texas at Austin (first floor of the Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences building). Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” show, will [...]

Article Reviewed: Hennessey B, Amabile T. Reward/Reality, Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity. American Psychologist. June 1998:674. Hypothetical Conversation on Creativity, Reward and Motivation. By Senior Editors Emily Hardy & Tim Ogletree Imagine this… INT. COFFEE SHOP – DAY Robert Eisenberger sits alone, taking up a table for four. He hunches over his laptop with frustration riddling [...]

Article Reviewed: Amabile, T. M., Conti, R., Coon, H., Lazenby, J., & Herron, M. (1996). Assessing the work environment for creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 39(5), 1154. Creativity in the Workplace Good for them (employees). Great for you (managers) By Senior Editors Jaclyn Jacobson & Paige Phillips. More and more researchers and managers nowadays realize [...]

Article Reviewed: Ruscio J, Whitney D, Amabile T. Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance. Creativity Research Journal. 1998;11(3):243. By Senior Editors Johnna Wagner and Natalia Urbanowicz. Ever wonder why some people are more creative than others? What factors contribute to that creativity? Like you, many others have asked [...]

Who doesn’t want to be happy? Turns out you can now get a Ph.D. in Happiness…Check this article from The New York Times: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1606395,00.html I also found these interesting… “The New Science of Happiness” from Time Magazine: http://tinyurl.com/3353kz Dilbert’s formula for happiness: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/happiness_formu.html Finding utopia on a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia Sign me up… clipped from [...]

In this year’s Superbowl, Doritos, Chevrolet, the NFL and YouTube let consumers create their own Superbowl ads which they will air… http://promotions.yahoo.com/doritos/ http://www.cbs.com/chevy http://nfl.com/superad/ http://www.youtube.com/group/15seconds One guy will propose… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16712641/ One pregnant woman sold ad space on her belly in exchange for 2 Super Bowl tickets… http://www.tampabays10.com/sports/article.aspx?storyid=48402 http://www.ubid.com/BearBelly And in just a few days you [...]

The International Forum of Creativity Organizations (IFCO) has just updated their listing of 2007 conferences and worldwide events. Here’s the short list: Great Ideas Conference 2007, Jan. 27-30 Creative Engagements, Feb. 9-11 Florida Creativity Weekend, Mar. 2-4 Caribbean Creativity, Mar. 12-16 American Creativity Association. Mar. 19-24 ETech: Emerging Technology, Mar. 26-29 Creativity in Advertising, Mar. [...]

And while on the topic of Malcolm Gladwell, check out this fascinating article from the New Yorker (thanks Stan for forwarding). In the October 16 issue, Gladwell looks at two intriguing efforts aimed at predicting the success of a song or movie. While a song can be mathematically reduced and mapped to a “hit” cluster [...]

On February 21st 2006, Malcolm Gladwell gave a great talk about creativity. The event was part of the New Yorker Nights, a series hosted by the Columbia University Arts Initiative and The New Yorker. Gladwell is the author of: The Tipping Point and Blink Here, in three parts, is Gladwell’s lecture: Age Before Beauty – [...]

Here’s a great speech on creativity by education guru and the author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Sir. Ken Robinson from TED conference 2006: [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307[/googlevideo] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307 And an interview with Robinson about the importance of nurturing innovative solutions in the classroom from BusinessWeek, Feb 23, 2006 By Jessie Scanlon How do [...]

” Creativity does not exist in a vacuum. While having specific meanings and nuances to those who are engaged in its study or its application, it is a term that requires greater definition and greater common understanding of its power to effect change and promote greater harmony throughout our national and international societies. As we [...]

Richard Florida is a professor of public policy at George Mason University. He is best known for his work in developing his concept of the creative class and its ramifications in urban regeneration. He received a PhD from Columbia University in 1986 and taught at Carnegie Mellon University from 1987 to 2005. He is the [...]