Community Aspects – Page 38 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

With Plagiarism it does not matter whether you really are creative

2012-04-10

You know the boy who cried wolf? It's the same with plagiarism -- no matter what happens, you will not be regarded as creative anymore. For good reasons.
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Method Monoculture in Science

2012-03-09

A warning on focusing too much on one method in science. Just look at the conclusion of the ichthyologist.
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Recommendation: How to Give an Academic Talk

2012-01-06

Shout-out and recommendation of some very good material on how to give an academic talk.
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What is good PhD advisory?

2012-01-04

A question that is too rarely asked and even rarer answered satisfactorily. Here's my take on the answer -- with the best example I have seen so far.
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Poster: How to Organize Your Creativity?

2011-10-13

The poster looks complex, but have a look at it. It puts much about this site on a single page (a very large and very full single page, but a single page nonetheless).
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The Future of Your Research: How to organize (a) scientific work?

2011-10-12

Slides of a presentation I did about organizing creativity in science. Highly recommended, and with the slide notes actually understandable.
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Presentation: How to Organize a Scientific Work [German]

2011-10-04

Slides of a presentation I did about organizing creativity in science. Highly recommended, and with the slide notes actually understandable. German language version.
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Leadership in Academia

2011-07-25

Short summary on two articles about leadership in Academia. Should be required reading for all professors and grad students.
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Working in interdisciplinary teams: Some stumbling blocks and how to deal with them

2011-07-06

Interdisciplinary work can lead to impressive results -- if the communication works out. Possible problems like False Agreement and False Disagreement, or Not knowing what they don't know, and a few suggestions to deal with them.
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Peer-reviews in Psychology

2011-07-02

Excerpts from one of the best papers on peer-review I've read so far. It's about social sciences, but features Einstein, Newton, and even some ancient Greeks.
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Besides Blog Postings about multiple topics, the draft version of the third edition of “Organizing Creativity” is freely available as PDF here.

Get the book (yup, free to download :-))

The worksheets to the book are currently being created. The ones that are ready in version 1 are:

Best regards

Daniel

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.