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Creative Intelligence
Creative Intelligence is a thoughtful edit of perspectives on emerging insights and intelligent innovation. Leadership at the intersection of design, tech, commerce, aesthetics and emotion.
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Information is everywhere. Insight is rare.
To find true insight in a world of noise, look to the gaps
Creativity is not a title. It’s a mindset.
Being ‘creative’ is how you solve problems. Here’s how to be creative, even in challenging situations
Strong connections make this a small world
The world is geographically vast, but our connections make it feel very small
Assumptions vs questions
Why inquisitiveness is in fact your super power. Just ask MacGyver
Clear out time
Our short-term memory can only hold 7 items. Be discerning about what you hold in there and free up some RAM
Plagiarism
To find something new in old things is a creative trait. It guides how you craft a unique take on the world
Temple Bar
Standing still is the easiest way to fail… yet too often we hang on just because it’s perfectly good right now
Keith Richards
When that idea is, maddeningly, right on the tip of your tongue, try detaching
#15 :: 500 words per day
Or, how to navigate a creative brief lacking boundaries, structure, timeline
#14 :: Dylan’s 5 forces for transformation
Or, what Bob Dylan teaches about dancing through waves of change
#13 :: Creatively rigorous; rigorously creative?
Or, how to balance the intuition/analysis gap
#12 :: Less and better: Bauhaus approach to products that connect
Or, human-centred lessons about how to create products that connect to people
#11 :: Colouring in the future: How do you see beyond?
Or, how Crayola shows us how connecting diverse learnings can birth brilliant ideas
#10 :: Ten years in design
Or, why the last decade shows why leading by design matters more than ever
#9 :: The art of observation
Or, how to really notice the world and learn from your observations
#8 :: Intuition, Zen and looking over the horizon
Or, methods from the Steve Jobs playbook on creating the future
#7 :: Serendipity + designing the future
Or, being open to a customer-centric approach to inventing brilliant products
#6 :: Principles from Unix in surviving a recession
Or, why a recession is actually good news for designing even better products