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Creativity and the human skill AI can't replicate (Day 3) | Open to Work

Creativity isn't a talent some people have and others don't, it's a skill. In day three of this special five-part series, Helen and Aneesh Rahman explore the third C, creativity, a...

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The Five C's of Creativity

The five C’s of creativity offer a simple framework for enhancing one’s capacity for creativity as well as resilience.

How to Use the Power of Creativity in Your Everyday Life After 60

How are you using creativity in your daily life? Each of us is continually creating our world. Creativity isn’t something that happens somewhere else; something that only certain p...

Strategies to Nurture Kids’ Creative Thinking

Creativity for Learning is a book that teachers at any level of experience, in any subject, can use to build engaging, thought-provoking activities that advance student learning. T...

Can ‘Applied Creativity’ be the next ‘Design Thinking?’

In a January 2025 podcast episode, Open AI CEO Sam Altman was asked what the most important skill would be in the age of AI. His answer was—in simplest terms—the ability to ask cre...

Creativity is currency

A couple of years ago, I started noticing a quiet anxiety beneath the surface of nearly every leadership conversation I was having. It wasn’t about talent pipelines or quarterly ea...

Wenn sich Ideen auf den Weg machen: So entsteht Kreativität

Kreativität wird häufig als besondere Begabung angesehen, die nur wenigen Menschen in die Wiege gelegt ist. Wissenschaftliche Studien zeichnen ein anderes Bild: Kreative Ideen ents...

Play and Creativity Run on Free Energy

In moments of play and over eons of evolution, surprise vies with caution.

Asking Questions

Asking questions is an important ability for a creative person to have. As children, we probably asked our parents a bunch of questions. As we grow older, we tend to ask fewer an...

Why AI May Be the Best Thing to Happen to Creativity in Decades

You’re not watching creativity die. You’re watching the gate come down.

‘Human creativity is under fire’ says WPP 

At Cannes Lions, creativity is now seen as a key driver of growth, but leaders are struggling to protect it as idea production becomes cheaper and more automated

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How Are You Creative?

When Maxin Jago of the Creativity Conference asked me to do a keynote speech on why I am creative I thought long and hard. Here is the text of the speech I gave at Raindance  on Ju...

Institutionalising creativity: China as case study — Building ideas challenge and bank for sustainable development

By Victor-Bandele Dada In the twenty-first century, the wealth of nations is increasingly determined not simply by natural resources, geographical advantage, or industrial output,...

How to Create an Environment That Nurtures Creativity

[[video:100]]To be creative, you must ensure you’re in an environment which nurtures your creativity. This goes both for personal creativity and for teams that do creative ideation...

Creativity and Trailblazing - Is it time for a new path?

Do not follow where the path may lead. ​Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson by Skip CohenAs I've shared several times in past posts, Sheila and...

The Era of Suppression: Why Creativity Feels Different Today

Humanity once carried an empty vessel into the unknown. Today that vessel is overflowing — with notifications, opinions, entertainment…Continue reading on Medium »

Why your creative eye is the most valuable thing in the studio right now

Now that anyone can make content in seconds, taste has become the most valuable asset. That means the tools worth using are the ones that take the grunt work without making you com...

Your Organization Doesn’t Lack Creativity. It Lacks the Conditions for It to Thrive. Here’s How to Change That.

Getting new ideas is no longer the challenge for most businesses operating in the age of information.

What An Art Museum Taught Me About Human Creativity

I recently visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts — my first visit to an art museum in several years. Although I took my time exploring the exhibits from top to bottom and taking i...

Takeshi Sano: Creativity is a multiplier of business value that extends far beyond advertising

Ahead of Cannes Lions 2026, Campaign asks senior leaders from the biggest global agency and marketing groups about the most pressing issues facing the industry. Dentsu’s Takeshi Sa...

Why Your Best Ideas Only Come in the Shower

Knowing what you want to make and actually making it are two very different problems. The gap between them isn't talent or equipment; it's the mental framework you're using to appr...

How thinking and making shape the next gen of creatives

Choosing a creative career can feel overwhelming, but combining critical thinking with hands-on practice can help students prepare for the realities of the creative industries, wri...