James S
Futurism and strategic development at its sharpest. Understanding the future to create advantage today
What does creativity mean to you?
The world needs creativity. It needs inspiration. It needs a new way of looking at issues and a new way of developing.
Creativity is at the heart of humanity. It has been such since the beginning of time.
What does creativity meant to you? Be as poetic as you can be - it's how I perceive the world.
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Susi O
Creative Industries and Digital Media Consultant
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Creativity is a disruptive technology - it challenges the norm and turns ways of viewing the world and means of working on its head. Creativity is the life blood of a forward looking and progressive society.
Marc A
General Manager at dē-ĕm 3
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Creativity is the blending of imagination with reality.
Marietta C
Executive Director, Friedman & Wexler, LLC - Collection Law Firm - Consumer/Commercial
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I came home last night
to make dinner
the pantry
could not have been thinner
oil, garlic
and a think
pasta, water
and a blink
bread, butter
and red wine
made a winner!
'Allo James m'dear -- will that do? (smile) Marietta
Abe K
CEO, Verasoni Worldwide, A Marketing & PR Firm, Adjunct Professor of Marketing & PR, Seton Hall University
Creativity is an outcome of simple space and courage. The space that one needs to imagine, and then the courage to do.
Expanding a concept until it splits.
Opening a door that seems unright.
Finding an answer that seems to fit.
Then changing the goal to fit your flight.
II:>)
George O
Engineering Execution and Productivity at Boeing IDS Phantom Works
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Unbridled imagination. This is something that most of us lose as we develop into adults and start working at a career or in developing "expertise" in a given area. It is also the one thing that we are born with that is quickly stifled by our educational system. Those who are able to imagine without boundaries, and who look at every situation as though it is new, tend to be more creative in their lives. When passion and sensuality (not necessarily sexuality) are added to the mix, great things are achieved, bordering on magic. These "boundary busters" are the ones who grow our civilization, the rest of us are mere spectators.
Martin C
Sr. Quality Manager at BASF Fuel Cell
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Creativity is thinking outside the norms to solve problems or generate new ideas in these areas, drugs, music, comedy, mathematics, physics, etc.
Robert F
Podcaster at podcastGenealogy.com
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Creativity to me is the ability to take distinctly different pieces of information and combine them in a unique manner ... not necessarily in a way that has not been done before, but in an unexpected way.
MaritaBeth C
Designer, Creator--- Owner of A Wardrobe in Time--Clothing Through the Ages
Creativity: The germ of an idea, shaped by experience, enhanced by inspiration and brought to fruition through a whole lot of heart and soul.
Elouise H
Communications Manager, Volunteering Victoria
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Creativity, to me, is an approach to the mundanity of life from paths that have not been taken before. This always involves risks as often, well-worn paths towards doing things are seen as more reliable, tried and tested, safe and some people would rather not reinvent the wheel. And this is probably also why some of the most creative thinkers of different times are not quite understood and are in the fringes, rather than the mainstream, because they are constantly trying to reinvent the wheel. In thinking this way, I have more respect for artists and designers who are painfully shy about their work as it is often different and precious.
Lubna K
Chartered Accountant and Newspaper Columnist
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Creativity-it changes boring into roaring!
Pooja K
Researcher at Egon Zehnder International
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Giving a spin different from the usual or expected is creativity. Finding an opportunity where others see a blockage is creativity.
M. Prabhakar R
Green Building Designing / LEED Certifications, CDM&Carbon Trading (CERs/VERs),Renewable Energy Solutions-Toplinked
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Hi James,
Creativity is the opposite of replication, coming out of the routine and trying to do a thing in a new way or even doing a new thing, hitherto untried.
Regards,
Alicia C
Expert on Wealthing - Creating wealth from innovations
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Creativity is simple pleasure. We reconnect with the fun of getting something that did not exist before. When we create we forget our problems, we are just being, the child comes out, we connect with ourselves and it simply feels good. Our energy pours from the inside to the outside and leaves our imprint, the object of our creation becoming an extended part of ourselves. Creativity also lives in a time and purpose vacuum. It can be quite inspirational because we feel that we are there to do something unique and it reinforces our sense of autonomy and contribution.
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Stéphane M
Author and Chief AtoZ Officer
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the ability to see things that can't be seen
yet
and may never be
Kajal A
Branch Manager
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Creativity is a new idea, a new approach and could be a new attitude. Creativity can also be a good idea of motivitating a team.
Cheers,
Kajal
Catherine S
R&D Engineer
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Let imagination run, thinking outside the box and then having the thing becomes true by all means.
Eugene J
Chief Financial Officer
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I agree that the world needs creativity and especially a new way of looking at issues to solve them. Fear of the unknown, fear of being wrong so often stifles creativity and nips in the bud the courage to move into a new direction...Western societies all too often teach us to conform to existing norms and processes that it becomes increasingly difficult for adults to be creative. Isn't it Pablo Picasso who said something to the effect: "every child is an artist and we teach him not to be when he grows up." ?
Creativity is also not necessarily that spark of imagination that identifies something no one had ever thought of before. It is also the ability to take existing ideas and combine them into something new (cf "COnnections" the british tv series). Albert Einstein is said to have once quipped that the secret to creativity was knowing how to keep your sources hidden.
Sanjay N
CIO at Technology for Business Solutions
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Creativity lies in the eye of the beholder. When a young performer dances with a new pleasing motion, that is creativity which makes her a star. Ditto for the engaging way you dress, paint your face, talk, sing or write.
Professor Kano's model says that value perception is a hugely disproportionate dependent function. A small change in features of a product can disrupt the market. Customers are irrational. Netherland's Tulip mania is well documented.
At the same time, it is impossible to tell which kind of creativity will click. Some form of dances may appear vulgar to some audiences, but may attract rave reviews from others. So the mental models of the customer also matter in the equation. There cannot be anything univeraslly creative, unless it has to do with security and hunger perhaps.
The politicians have mastered the art of creative talking. They mean everything to everyone.
sanjay9negi@hotmail.com
Hi James,
Creativity is what you do when your fly won't zip up and your first-date is at the door.
Creativity is the source of (mostly cultural, slightly genetic) mutations.
It is within the 2% that makes us "superior" to our closest natural relatives.
Personally, I found no adequate evolutional explanations to why we needed such a high level of intelligence to survive.
Roaches do not need it and they are doing better than us.
I believe we were created. God? UFO genetic project? I don't know.
Back to the real world.
Creativity is the wedge of advantages.
In most cases, it is the need for advantages that drives creativity.
Arm race is THE typical example. So is iMac, iPod, iPhone, iToilet....
Sometime, when the creativity is too-much for the time. We call them madness, like the early years of Einstein.
Clarification added June 18, 2007:
Creativity is like wind. It takes a windmill to channel it through.
Wasn't it the same old Steve Jobs when he was making out with NeXT? well, nothing too magical happened. Jobs has always been creative, but most importantly he HAS Apple's marketing and development team to realize them NOW.
If you are not an doer, your are a dreamer.
I am a dreamer for one. I dream of extending my arms and fly.......
Well, I hope there is a "doer" out there who would invent such a machine for me to soar the sky......for, say, $1.99? AA battery powered.....
Remember Las Vegas? Persist, and dreams can come true. Try, and you will get it right.
It brings us back to the Holy Grail of enterprise - execution.
To execute or be executed, that's the question.
When it comes to the tangibles, dreamers = losers.
Creativity for me is bringing something from nothing. It's the picture in your mind that only you can see, the answer to a problem that is new. Creativity is unique, spontaneous generation. I most enjoy creativity that comes from nowhere and is unsought after, innovation that just springs to mind. The best thing about creativity is that it is free and constantly available.
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It has been said many times that there is nothing new under the sun. That being said, a large part of creativity for me is the ability to take old ideas, objects, and materials and combine or freshen them in such a way as to make them new again.
Subhas C B
Management Consultant
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Creativity inspires creativity. This question is not creative enough to inspire poetic sense or humanity in me to give you a creative answer. Please clarify your reason or purpose of raising this question.
If you can solve a problem/issue in a tangential approach to the conventional methods, that is creativity.
Siebe S
Marketing Consultant, business coach, five to twelve problem solving
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James, did you read all the above? Consider this:
FREEDOM
Siebe
Basil W
Standup Comic, Speechwriter, Comedy Deconstructionist Writing Teacher and Humor Neuroscientist (eek!) at basilwhite.com
Creativity is listening to the voice in your head and surrendering your mind and body to its will.
