About The Creativity Seminar
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The Creativity Seminar teaches individuals, teams and companies new ways to develop ideas and solve problems. It offers techniques and tool...
Design: Improving Through Improv
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Sean Kelly's Creativity Seminar pays homage to the imaginative work of improvisational theater groups like Second City and Upright Cit...
Storm in the Brain
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Dr. Rex Jung, an assistant research professor in the department of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, is leading a team in the f...
Journalists: Don't Just Redo. Rethink.
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From Poynter's Craig Silverman: RICHARD GINGRAS Richard Gingras says that at this moment in journalism, “transformation” is a fou...
Quote of the Day
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"Creativity is not some exotic, optional extra. It's a strategic issue." Sir Ken Robinson
The Missing Link To Innovation: Creative-Thinking Skills
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Creativity doesn't need to be random, abstract or mysterious. Its an ability that can be developed, practiced and improved. Creativity i...
With Gratitude
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A very kind compliment about The Creativity Seminar from Eric Newton , the senior adviser to the president at the John S. and James L. ...
Why Business Leaders Should Act More Like Artists
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John Maeda , President of Rhode Island School of Design , knows all too well the many stereotypes about artists. But when he had a conversat...
Varied Experience, Broad Understanding
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"When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it -- they just saw s...
Stop Saying "Disruption": It Doesn't Mean What You Think
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KEVIN ROOSE (Photo: Janine Cheng) "Every industry has its buzzwords. (Ask a management consultant about 'core competencies,...
Avoid "Group Think." Diverse Teams are More Creative.
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INCLUDING AN OUTSIDER BRINGS FRESH PERSPECTIVE AND BETTER SOLUTIONS. The goal of creativity is to generate new ideas, by seeing things fro...
Think Different
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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." — John Cage
Visual Thinking for Writers
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Visual thinking involves using images as tools to allow the creative and emotional part of the brain to process information in an intuiti...
Imagination Begins With the Word 'Image"
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Click image for Visual Thinking: Writing With Pictures by Sean Kelly on Vimeo. Visual thinking is like Twitter in pictures. It allows us t...
Question the Question
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“If a problem can't be solved within the frame in which it was conceived, then the solution lies in reframing the problem.” ― Bria...
The More the Merrier
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Sean Kelly "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." — Linus Pauling Presentations in Sean Kelly's C...
Using Both Sides of the Brain
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"Envision the thinking process as a kayak with two paddles. One paddle represents critical thinking while the other represents creativ...
Brainstorming: Accentuate the Positive
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A re-posting of an article, from The Creative Leadership Forum, by Paul Sloane, author of The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills...
Pyramid Dream
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John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design and former associate director of research at the MIT Media Lab , works to integrate...
TIME, Microsoft, MPAA host Creativity Conference
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WASHINGTON, DC: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, THE CREATIVITY CONFERENCE, SPONSORED BY TIME MAGAZINE, MICROSOFT AND THE MOTION P...
Quantity Leads to Quality (But Let's Qualify That)
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In Sloan Mangagement Review , Josh Hyatt explores how brainstorming teams are often unable to identify which of the concepts they've dev...
Innovation Nation
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"Create as if the fate of the nation depends on you. It does." — Barack Obama, February 2011
Innovation is a Personal Skill
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Mainstream thinking about innovation has focused on process and policy. A recent book addresses a critical element largely overlooked — the ...
Featured Speaker at Media Conference in NYC
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Sean Kelly presented a Showcase Session at CMA13 , the annual national convention of the College Media Association, which was held in N...
That "Eureka" Moment
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"I get my best ideas in the bath tub." — Archimedes Recognized as the greatest mathematician of antiquity, Archimedes is per...
On Creative Thinking at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
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Sean Kelly was honored to be a guest lecturer on creative thinking at the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern Cali...
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