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Archive for the 'Creativity' Category



U2, Creativity, & Christmas

It might come as a surprise that Rolling Stone has named No Line on the Horizon as Best Album of the Year, with Moment of Surrender as Best Song (which is a pretty amazing song: read about its development here). This album certainly marks a new expression of creativity for U2, and they still don’t […]

Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity

This is worth your time, especially if you are a creative. Gilbert, author of Eat, Love, Pray, discusses the need to rework the destinies of creatives of the past 500 years. So many successful artists enter rapid decline after their greatest life work. How can we rework that pattern in ourselves–emotional and mental downwardness after […]

Creating in the Spirit of Milton

Apart from my dad’s real first name, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear “Milton” is John Milton, one of the most enduring poets the West has ever produced (most well-known for his Paradise Lost). Stanley Fish recounts his recent experience at a Milton symposium in London, where Milton is praised for […]

More on Creative Thinking

Write it down. - Encourage your team to write and share their lives with others. (More blogging!)
Hire smart. - Hire risk-takers. You need people that are willing to embrace change.
Bring in outsiders. - Bring in outside perspective to expand your thinking. (That’s how we arrived at our live-streaming technology for multi-site.)
Be flexible. Very flexible. - […]

Too Much Information?

Ben Bartlett over at Christ and Pop culture has pleasantly summarized an article by Frank Bures called “Way, Way Too Much Information.” The thesis of his article is that writing and creativity is stifled by our gluttonous intake of information. In the frenetic click till you stick pace of online reading, we frequently abandon slow, […]

I had the priviledge of emailing some questions to one of the authors of Creativity Today, Ramon Vullings. He was kind enough to give me his responses - enjoy! (Charles Whitmire is CW and Ramon Vullings is RV) (CW) I…

Creativity Killers for churches…

In Creativity Today, I found several things that relate to church work and creativity in churches. I think all of us like the “idea” of being creative organizations and known for our creativity - but very few of us are…

All week, I invite you to join me on a journey looking at Creativity. In fact, this week there is a Virtual Book Tour going on for the book Creativity Today that I get the chance to participate in… This…