think_differently – Page 113 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Negative Creativity — Creativity is Value-Neutral

2011-07-07

Like science, creativity is value-neutral. This leads to a problem for creative people. Also: The worst example of negative creativity I have seen so far.
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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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Muses

2011-07-03

A few comments on muses -- they are not gone, they are just harder to find.
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From DokuWiki to DEVONthink

2011-06-30

How to switch from a DokuWiki to DEVONthink. Done in a couple of minutes and well worth it. At least, if you are the only person who would have used your wiki. Why do it and some tips.
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Creating your own Tools

2011-06-26

Improving one's tools can lead to great performance boost and is something you might want to look into.
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What is good advisory of PhD students?

2011-06-23

Great example of a professor who actually cares about advising his students -- and what he does to do a good job.
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“Coordination is about making commitments”

2011-06-22

Great analysis why teamwork fails and what is needed instead.
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New Website: Ark of Ideas

2011-06-10

I've just created a website to freely share ideas I cannot use. Have fun.
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Communication to Generate Great Ideas

2011-05-23

Great video about the importance of sharing ideas (talk by Steven Johnson) … or hunches … to develop great ideas.
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What Motivates to be Creative and Innovative in Work Settings?

2011-05-23

Great video about motivation in work settings.
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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.