Thomas Mannarelli
Traditional analytical models of decision-making, while appropriate for evaluating choices for which there are ample historical data, can often kill off creative ideas that might be extremely valuable.
when creative people are performing a task, if the extrinsic reasons for engaging in the task are more important than the intrinsic reasons, they will tend to perform less creatively. Outside factors encourage people to focus purely on … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Financial Times | Subjects: Creativity, Trends / Analysis
Mark Morris
It’s important to distinguish between creativity and art. The most common form of creativity is problem solving: You can’t get the truck through the tunnel, so you let the air out of the tires. I presume that businesspeople are very good at this kind of creativity…
By contrast, art depends on whether you can invent something from very little… Of course, skill and learning are also … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Creativity
Mark Morris
[this push for creativity], it’s all so completely phony. Look at education: There’s this horrible homogenization going on – everybody has got to be special. So if it’s somebody’s birthday in grade school, then you have to celebrate everybody’s birthday, all year long. Everyone gets absolutely equal treatment; nobody is allowed to stick out—whether it’s because they are behaving badly or are brilliantly smart. Everyone … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Content: Quotation | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation
Michael Gelb
Creativity is the result of the marriage of logic and imagination.
Content: Quotation | Source: LiNE Zine | Subject: Creativity