Rarely do brilliant ideas appear out of the blue. In his new book How to Have Great Ideas: A Guide to Creative Thinking (Laurence King, 2016), John Ingledew—a photographer and visiting professor at ...

The right-brained creativity myth isn't the only limited notion of what creativity is, what it requires, and how it happens. Again, let me be audacious enough to mention another one: the creative ...

"Any ability or tendency which serves to bring otherwise mutually remote ideas into contiguity will facilitate a creative solution; any ability or tendency which serves to keep remote ideas from ...

Great ideas can change your business for the better, but research suggests too many professionals don't feel confident sharing their ideas. Five business leaders explain how you can unlock creative ...

What should you do when you experience a creative block? Or when you're facing a problem at work or in your business and you can't find an innovative solution? These four creative, yet proven ...

I'm a firm believer in not doing everything myself. After 25 years at the C-level, there have been many times when I ended up taking on tasks on my own, but it's often more of a struggle to operate ...

There is a tough balance here to achieve, since a large portion of starting and running a business requires analytical, logical thinking. In fact, our education and training to logically associate ...

Technical work — including problem-solving — is creative work. In addition, creativity is more than a vague and nebulous attribute that either is or isn’t present when it’s needed. A short article by ...

Thinking “outside the box”–when is it an effective tool, and when is it an excuse for non-conformance or non-compliance with operational practices? Are there rules that govern creative thinking? And, ...

The concept of presence of mind, as a tool for strategy, comes from one of the original writers on that subject: the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz. In his classic book On War, published in 1832 ...