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More on Creative Thinking

Closed Published by jdodson July 11th, 2008 on Creation Project

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. - […]

Pressing Through the Creative Gap

Closed Published by jdodson July 10th, 2008 on Creation Project

Kevin Cawley posts on really helpful wisdom from Ira Glass regarding obstacles to creativity and excellence in honing our craft. He explores the creativity gap between our “tastes” and “product” and how to move from mediocre to creative excellence.

Do a significant volume of work, even if it doesn’t pay.
Creative excellence takes time.
Give yourself the space […]

The New Office?

Closed Published by jdodson June 9th, 2008 on Creation Project

Many of us dread the office, even worse, the cubicle. Ironically, the cubicle was originally designed to foster human creativity, increase a new sense of success and vocational vitality. According to Nikil Saval, when Robert Propst created the cubicle in the 60s, he declared: “We are a nation of office dwellers. The face of capitalism […]

Top Books for 2007 (that I actually read)

Closed Published by jdodson December 13th, 2007 on Creation Project

DeLillo immediately thrusts the reader into a world “of falling ash and near night” only to abandon him in subtle anticipation. Making his way through the a-chronological sequence of events that follow, the reader is forced to grapple with social, interpersonal, psychological and, at times, spiritual impact of the destruction of Twin Towers. This is no 9/11 rip-off.

Academic or Journalistic Blogging?

Closed Published by jdodson November 30th, 2007 on Creation Project

Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum disagrees with Tyler Cowen’s plea for “intellectual anthropology.”
Actually, this kind of amateur anthropology goes on all the time, and it obviously has its uses. But it also has its drawbacks: the conventions of social interaction allow people to obfuscate, prevaricate, evade, and just generally lay on the charm in ways […]

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