Imagine your marketing team comes up with an idea for a great new product. You absolutely love it. But when you start shopping the idea around the building, you get some very strange looks from people. People are resisting the idea, and you and your team are getting...
by Todd Bookman (with permission) First, a definition. “So my definition would be, in order for a certain idea to be creative, it must possess two major components. One, it has to be new, novel, something we haven’t seen before,” says Rom Schrift, a...
On December 3, 2014, the first session of the Entrepreneurship Educators Forum Webinar Series took place. The vision for the project is to create a meeting place for the community to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship, and to build an open-source...
Can creativity be taught? Here are insights from Professors Jacob Goldenberg, Rom Shrift and others on this seemingly elusive topic (from Knowledge@Wharton, August 27, 2014): “I think there are individual differences in our propensity to be creative,” says Wharton...
The University of Cincinnati’s Massive Open Online Course begins October 16th. The course is free and open to all. You should take this course because 1. you can do it even while you are traveling, and 2. ALL the content is optional. Just surf the content that...
People need time to innovate, but corporations tend to “tax” employees with time-wasting bureaucracy. As reported in The Economist, clutter is taking a toll on both morale and productivity. “Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School studied the daily...