Innovating Through Artistry
A CEO tells state lawmakers that a liberal arts education trumps tech skills in the workplace. Combine it with entrepreneurship and leadership training and we are on the path to reforming education and preparing minds for 21st opportunities and … [Read more...]
Remember to share with the world what you are doing for World Creativity and Innovation Week with one easy tweet. #wciw World Creativity and Innovation Week celebrates the unlimited potential of people to be open to and generate new ideas. So here is your week to be (more) open to making new decisions and trying to use your ideas to … [Read more...]
Written by: Ben Lillie At the end of a Kickstarter backer party in Berlin, Amanda Palmer stripped and let everyone draw on her. “If you want to experience the visceral feeling of trusting strangers, I’d recommend this.” Photo: James Duncan Davidson Amanda Fucking Palmer want us to re-think how we think about paying for … [Read more...]
Recently LinkedIn turned to some of the most successful people in business and asked them to share the best advice they had ever received. What can we learn from others success? There are over 70 great pieces of advice from this series to choose from so read on! #1 What I Learned from a Sex-Crazed Short-Order Cook Glenn Kelman, … [Read more...]
Last weeks tragic events that took two lives- the life of model Reeva Steenkamp literally and figuratively that of double amputee, the fastest runner with no legs, Oscar Pistorious, has left me thinking about creative destruction. Creativity and destruction are like two sides of a coin. In the most positive sense our creativity helps … [Read more...]
Written by Tiffany Smith Art is everywhere. It's on storefronts, in the mail and on take-out bags; it's in makeup design as seen on women's faces. It's on our clothing, in literature, in our choice of website design we choose and even on printed collateral like plastic cards. It's everywhere we look inside our homes too; on our … [Read more...]
Written by Tara Mohr Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic. "After all," they reason, "there are real … [Read more...]
Torrent of Torrances: Kyung-Hee Kim looks up from a binder of completed examples from the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. In this figural activity, participants construct—and give a name to—a picture using the jellybean-shaped blob. Kim has documented a decline in creativity as measured by the Torrance test. Photo by Stephen … [Read more...]
Posted on the Tomorrows Youth Organization Blog January 16, 2013 by talatyo A native of Beit Furik, a village outside Nablus, Aya Mletat is the Founder and CEO of Solidarity Sheep Farm. Currently involved in our Women’s Incubation Services for Entrepreneurs (WISE), Aya partook on a journey that she called, “One of my greatest … [Read more...]
If all you want is to make money, then you deserve to be poor. Creative success is meant for those of us who are driven by achievement, legacy and hard work first. And from there, call it karma or your integrity at work, the financial rewards will follow. When you pursue a creative career there are no shortcuts and you're hands will … [Read more...]
