For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. Reprinted from Newsweek.com Back in 1958, Ted Schwarzrock was an 8-year-old third grader when he became one of the “Torrance kids,” a group of nearly 400 Minneapolis children who completed a series of creativity tasks newly designed […]
We often think that creative problem-solving must result in something entirely new. That it’s all about game changers, disruptions and paradigm shifts. A recent study in the Harvard Business Review begs to differ. Imitation, it argues, “can actually be more important to business growth than innovation.” But there might be an even more surefire route […]
At his appearance along with Ben Stiller last night on Charlie Rose, writer/director Noam Baumbach explained the process of writing the screenplay for his upcoming film, Greenberg. Never comfortable with making an outline first and then “filling it in,” Baumbach spoke of starting with the characters and letting the ideas and structure of the film […]
