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 million […]

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 […]

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 the importance of […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]