January often brings a sense of fresh beginnings — a perfect time to welcome comfort, creativity, and the simple joy of ...

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Think back to your childhood. You made up your own songs, you built a treehouse in the backyard, you used a box of crayons to create a surrealistic kingdom, you shared stories about characters with ...

The notion of “thinking outside the box” has become a cliché that business owners and managers often pay lip service to. Unfortunately, simply talking about creativity in the abstract or including it ...

I met Balder Onarheim earlier this summer during a trip to Copenhagen. We found some simpatico based on our mutual interests in helping organizations optimize creativity. Balder, please explain your ...

Here is a simple trick that will let you measure how creative you are and increase your creativity as an individual and as a boss. All you have to do is record yourself and watch for this. Uncreative ...

You might not consider yourself a creative person anymore, but you almost certainly were at one point. Among childhood’s many blessings is the freedom to play and create; art class, recess, and music ...

When I say “banana,” what’s the first verb that comes to mind? New research explores creativity using a noun/verb exercise. The more innovative or “semantically distant” the verb, the more creative ...