by Drew Boyd | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
A new study by Philip Hans Franses of the Erasmus School of Economics in the Netherlands may suggest the point in time when we reach our creative peak. Franses examined the lifespans of 221 famous painters between 1800 and 2004, and estimated the year they created...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 10, 2014 | Evaluation Ideas, Innovation Method, The Wheel
“As usual, for these co-written things, John often had just the first verse, which was always enough: it was the direction, it was the signpost and it was the inspiration for the whole song. I hate the word but it was the template.” – Paul McCartney...
by Drew Boyd | Feb 3, 2014 | Attribute Dependency, Evaluation Ideas, Idea Generation, Inside the Box Innovation, Jared Diamond, Subtraction
Although studying creativity is considered a legitimate scientific discipline nowadays, it is still a very young one. In the early 1970s, a psychologist named J. P. Guilford was one of the first academic researchers who dared to conduct a study of creativity. One of...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
“We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think.” —Sir Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize winner, 1908 John Doyle certainly knows theater. Over his thirty-year career, he’s staged more than two hundred professional productions throughout the United Kingdom and...
by Drew Boyd | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the 1950s, General Mills launched a line of cake mixes under the famous Betty Crocker brand. The cake mixes included all the dry ingredients in the package, plus milk and eggs in powdered form. All you needed was to add water, mix it all together, and stick the pan...
