Welcome to the Creative Age – are you ready?
We're living in the Creative Age, where ideas are the coin of the realm. Are you prepared to leverage the opportunities it can bring your way?
Creativity: How to profit from other peoples’ ideas (without stealing them)
If you need new ideas to solve a problem or challenge, you have many brainstorming techniques you can use. But one of the most productive ways is to adapt a…
Evernote Context: A powerful new catalyst for creative problem solving
Last week, Evernote announced that it's developing a new service called Evernote Context that will suggest additional content relevant to the note you're currently working with. This opens up some…
Use Ben Franklin’s clever hack to become astoundingly creative
In Robert Allen Black’s creativity book, Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines, the author shares an intriguing story from the autobiography of Ben Franklin that you…
10 remarkable ways to use Google for creative problem solving
Did you know that Google isn't just the world's most popular and powerful search engine? It's also an awesome tool for creative problem solving.
Creativity: Are you solving the right problem?
Business people, when faced with a challenge, often decide what the problem is, and immediately throw their full weight into solving it. There’s only one problem with that approach: Often,…
Now is the best time to cultivate your creativity
Now is the best time in history to cultivate your creativity. I riff off of a Kevin Kelly article, in which he says the most exciting days of internet advancements…
Kickstart your creativity – ask provocative questions
Many of us don’t give questions a second thought. They’re a part of how we gather information from others on a daily basis. But did you realize that asking yourself…
How to brainstorm creative ideas with random word stimulation
Random word stimulation can help you access your subconscious mind and the wealth of information it contains to brainstorm original ideas.
Cultivate the soil of your creative brain
Like the rich soil of a farm field in the spring, your brain is waiting to be cultivated to yield a bumper crop of profitable ideas that will help to…