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 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 his face. Beth Hennessey and […]

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 […]

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 www.time.com

Getting Serious About Happiness

Studying happiness is hard. What one man […]

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 will be able to watch […]