Creativity

Why or why not?

There are many documented sources of the nature intelligence and creativity. You can look into Howard Gardner's work on Multiple Intelligences or Daniel Sternberg's book, "The Handbook of Creativity" which has many studies documenting the correlation between intelligence and creative thought. When you ask about "thinking process" I'm not sure what you mean. It sounds like you are asking, "To what degree can intelligence be measured by one's capacity for creativity?" and that has been in debate for decades. I would look it up on wikipedia and see who the current scientists are in the field. Also, Daniel Siegel has done some excellent work ("The Mindful Brain") on the nature of thought process itself if you are interested in consciousness and intelligence. Best of luck to you.

I am a special events producer that had an opportunity to buy out a 45 year old company recently. The company was in a decline which means a lot of work to re-build and grow. So far we've grown 45% per year winning awards for our special events and show productions, however, I am still learning what it means to be a business owner.

The stress and amount of work involved in not only servicing clients, but handling HR, accounting, cash flow, marketing, sales, on top of regular business issues and responsibilities is extremely overwhelming. I have made some decisions, such as hiring more staff with the hope of an increase in gross revenue, to only go further into a dept and cash flow situation. If I had the right person on-board with the right business experience, this may have been avoided.

My thoughts are to find a business partner that is soley interested in the management and growth of the business so I can focus on the clients, training of staff, creativity, quality control etc.

Instead of a partnership (which is definitely a bad idea), why don't you form and S-Corporation or LLC. If you want to work with someone, have them form their own S-Corp or LLC and use them as a sub-contractor.

Creativity improves pupils' self-esteem, motivation and achievement
Pupils who are encouraged to think creatively and independently become:

more interested in discovering things for themselves
more open to new ideas
keen to work with others to explore ideas
willing to work beyond lesson time when pursuing an idea or vision.
As a result, their pace of learning, levels of achievement and self-esteem increase

Many managers and policy-makers have misconceptions about innovation that can lead to all kinds of mistakes being made. The first thing to say is that innovation is not invention. Invention is the creation of a new idea and its reduction to practice. Innovation is the commercialisation of inventions. Innovation is, furthermore, often mistaken for research and development. R&D is an element of innovation but it is only that, one element.

Innovation is really about economically valuable novelty. It is about new products, processes and services and all the scientific, technological, organisational, financial and business activities that produce them. Innovation is complex and risky. Huge amounts of money are invested in innovations, with companies like IBM sometimes betting the company in their belief in new products. Investments like this are risky because innovations fail more often than not. Worldwide, only one in ten new products succeed in the market. Of the roughly 6000 new chemical substances currently on trial for their potential as new pharmaceuticals, perhaps only one will become a successful new drug. There is also a good deal of research that shows that billions of dollars spent on new equipment like machine tools and robots and so on since the 1980s have been wasted.

Innovation is also risky because it is so unpredictable. Lord Kelvin, who is President of the prestigious Royal Society once said that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible, and the Chairman of the major computer company, DEC, said that no-one would want a computer in their home. Very knowledgeable people can get their predictions in this field hopelessly wrong.

Innovations often succeed in unpredictable ways. The computer and the Internet were developed as tools for scientific research with no idea of their mass market appeal. When the laser was developed it really had no commercial applications, and now it has a wide range of uses from surgery to CD players. When 3M developed the Post-It Note, it pasted the clever invention, the non-sticky glue, on noticeboards, to which ordinary pieces of paper could be attached. It took some time before it was realised that it would be much better if the glue was put on the now ubiquitous little notes.

Where can i find a site that tells how valid the Torrence Test of Creative Thinking is?

You can find it here

http://www.coe.uga.edu/torrance/index.html

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Paul_Torrance

A little over three decades ago, Bruce Henderson, the Boston Consulting Group’s founder, warned managers, “The majority of products in most companies are cash traps. They will absorb more money forever than they will generate.” His apprehensions were entirely justified. Most new products don’t generate substantial financial returns despite companies’ almost slavish worship of innovation.

According to several studies, between five, and as many as nine, out of ten new products end up being financial failures. Even truly innovative products often don’t make as much money as organizations invest in them. Apple Computer, for instance, stopped making the striking G4 Cube less than 12 months after its launch in July 2000 because the company was losing too much cash on the investment. In fact, many corporations make the lion’s share of profits from only a handful of their products. In 2002, just 12 of Proctor & Gamble’s 250-odd brands generated half of its sales and an even bigger share of net profits.

Yet most corporations presume that they can boost profits by fostering creativity. During the innovation spree of the 1990s, for instance, a large number of companies set up new business incubators, floated venture capital funds, and nurtured intrapreneurs. Companies passionately searched for new ways to become more creative, believing that returns on innovation investments would shoot up if they generated more ideas.

However, hot ideas and cool products, no matter how many a company comes up with, aren’t enough to sustain success. “The fact that you can put a dozen inexperienced people in a room and conduct a brainstorming session that produces exciting new ideas shows how little relative importance ideas themselves actually have,” wrote Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt in his 1963 HBR article “Creativity Is Not Enough.” In fact, there’s an important difference between being innovative and being an innovative enterprise: The former generates lots of ideas; the latter generates lots of cash.

For the past 15 years, we’ve worked with companies on their innovation programs and commercialization practices. Based on that experience, we’ve spent the last two years analyzing more than 200 large (mainly Fortune Global 1000) corporations. The companies operate in a variety of industries, from steel to pharmaceuticals to software, and are headquartered mostly in developed economies like the United States, France, Germany, and Japan. Our study suggests there are three ways for a company to take a new product to market. Each of these innovation approaches, as we call them, influences the key drivers of the product’s profitability differently and generates different financial returns for the company.

The approach that a business uses to commercialize an innovation is therefore critical because it helps determine how much money the business will make from that product over the years. In fact, many ideas have failed to live up to their potential simply because businesses went about developing and commercializing them the wrong way.

“Innovating for Cash”, James P. Andrew and Harold L. Sirkin, Harvard Business Review, September 2003.

Melih Oztalay
http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/business-growth-taking-a-look-at-innovating-for-cash-119757.html

The Problem: geographically confined income

 

Unfortunately in this world, the majority of personal income is derived from a job. The typical job confines a person to a particular geographical area. Therefore, anytime that person is away from that geographical area, that person is not earning income. For example, a manager of a retail business located in Pasadena, CA is earning money while on the job at the business site in Pasadena. If the manager goes to travel to Mexico, or travel across Europe, his income is cut off.

 

This is the reality that the majority face everyday. However, with the global marketplace that has been created by modern technology, particularly the internet, shouldnâ??t it be possible to derive an income that was not tied to a particular geographical region?

 

The Solution: leverage modern technology to break geographical constraints

 

Over one billion people around the world are now connected to the internet. The internet allows individuals and companies to engage in instant financial transactions from opposite sides of the globe. It allows any common person to transmit information in a few seconds to anywhere in the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Why not use this phenomenon to craft an income that you can take with you anywhere in the world, a truly boundless income?

 

Ingredients of a Boundless Income

 

Ingredient 1: Instantly deliverable product

 

Since the internet allows for the transmission of information instantly, why rely on old school shipping of physical goods? Itâ??s expensive, and there is plenty of demand for other types of goods. People across the world are more than willing to pay for goods that can be delivered instantly right to their desktop pc or laptop. Take for instance movies, music, e-books, audio books, manuals, training courses. The list goes on and on. Products such as these allow the seller to be anywhere in the world, because the seller is not tied to the geographical area where the goods are stored (e.g., the warehouse). These goods are stored online. 

 

Ingredient 2: Global Marketing

 

These days, it is just as easy to market to the entire world as it is to market in ones own local area. There is pay per click advertising online. There are free social networking sites, classifieds, video sites such as YouTube. It has never been easier or cheaper to share a product or service with the entire world and earn a global income.

 

Ingredient 3: A Global Business Site

 

It is no longer necessary to construct brick and mortar outlets in each geographical are that one wishes to establish itself in. The internet allows a business to be omnipresent. When a business has a website where consumers can purchase products, that business has an outlet in every living room in the world with internet access.

 

Break Free: find a way to craft a boundless income

 

With a little creativity and willingness to have an open mind, anyone with a computer can derive income on a global scale without being tied to a place. By taking advantage of instantly deliverable products, global marketing, and custom websites, it is entirely possible to live the dream that a boundless income makes possible.

Stephen Schofield
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-ideas-articles/take-your-income-with-you-to-spain-the-bahamas-asia-etc-640048.html

We take pride in saying that this article on child creativity development and education is like a jewel of our articles. This article has been accepted by many parents as a most informative article on child creativity.

Here are five play time activities you can use to help your children develop their creative faculties and other senses faster. Many other techniques exist, but the following have been found to be the most effective in several studies. Enjoy!

1. Please Help Me Pack

What are the main benefits for the child

- exercise communication skills

- enrich vocabulary

- practice reaching, thereby strengthening arm muscles

What you need

- a shopping basket or plastic bag

What to do

- This is a fun way to putting away all your children’s toys after playing. Start putting toys and other objects in the bag while announcing
“It is time to pack away all your toys.”

- Then encourage your child to join in and help too.

- While filling up your own bag, name and identify each object that you pick up.

Try this activity when putting items into a laundry basket, or fixing up their toy storage.

2. Dump and Haul

The child begins using pre-verbal gestures to communicate starting ages 10 to 13 months, associates words with objects, enjoys waving goodbye and speaks his first recognizable word. At this stage, they initiate familiar routines and games with parents and adults.

What you will need

- a big pail or basket

- toys that fit into the pail or basket

- 4 feet of cord

What to do

- Tie a piece of cord through the pail handle. Let the child dump small toys into the pail. Then drag the pail across the room as the child holds the cord.

- The child can dump everything into another pail or on the floor again.

- Dump and haul, then dump and haul again.

3. Paper Cup Thrower

Your child is like a little Einstein, trying to discover and explore everything about the world as he can every minute. A child learns to solve problems through trial and error and tries to figure out the cause-and-effect relationships of every object he holds and the actions that are being done.

What are the benefits for the child?

- introduce a cognitive activity that allows the child to explore shapes and spaces

- continue developing cause-and-effect links

What you need

For toddlers, better education is achieved through playing constantly. Children respond well to visual stimuli and have been found to learn quicker and more if information is incoporated into their playtime activities. Children’s creative and development traits are best addressed through the world of play, since they are not yet equipped with enough speech and visual faculties to effectively communicate their feelings and thoughts with adults.

- 10 pieces of paper cups or plastic cups

What to do

- Things fit together! What’s more, the objects look different when they are put together! These are some of the many “great” discoveries of your active child. Let your toddler play with the cups, seeing how they are put together and apart, and then come back together again.

4. Dramatic Play

At age 24 to 35 months, the toddler is able to concentrate on his or her self-selected activities for la onger time. Pretend-play with parents, siblings, and other kids becomes the highlight of his day as he muses on other people’s facial expressions, actions, and gestures, then attempts to copy them.

Pretend-play is very important in the early years. It is also among the big favourites in a child’s play choices. The first interest in pretend play begins as a 10 month old picks up a rattle, places it near his ear, and starts babbling words like an adult would with a cellular phone.

Dramatic play is just one activity that strengthens holistic development. It touches these aspects in a child’s growing years – emotional: playing out scenes with emotional weight, cognitive: learning to use symbols through toys, social: interacting with others children, creating friendships, bonding with family, language: talking to each other, thinking of plans, brand new words, expressions, and physical: using gestures, facial expression, and playing “dress up”.

Since children still lack the capacity to communicate effectively, play is often their way of education. Thus, as parents, we must allocate sufficient time for play, in order for our children to develop creative faculties in the early stges of their life. Since children are not yet equipped with enough speech and visual faculties to communicate heir thoughts and feelings effectively with adults, their development and creative traits are best addressed through the world of play. Children respond well to visual stimuli and have been found to learn a lot better and more if information is added into playtime activities. For toddlers, better education is achieved through constant play time.

Andrew Chin
http://www.articlesbase.com/motivational-articles/child-creativity-development-and-education-through-play-time-138811.html

Just how can we “jump” our brains into gear to start thinking when we really need to? The entire concept is frustrating to many. We’re all familiar with words like “writer’s cramp” and “brain lock” when your brain won’t do what you want it to do. How do we get past those times when we need the creative power of our brain, but it just doesn’t come.

The answer turns out to be… movement. Surprisingly, movement stimulates thinking!

Not any movement though. Vigorous or violent motion won’t do the trick. For example, playing a contact sport or bungee jumping, while exciting, don’t have the desired effect.

Moderate repetitive movements… motions requiring no conscious effort on your part will. Taking a shower, washing dishes, knitting, running, tapping or wiggling your fingers, chewing gum and walking all are examples of activities that tend to get the brain flowing with ideas.

What probably happens here is that the repetitive activity pumps oxygen into the blood… this oxygenated blood travels to the brain resulting in a flow of ideas.

Don’t believe me? Try it. Go for a walk right now and see if ideas don’t just spontaneously start flowing. Something about the repetition and the movement just forces your brain to start working. You can’t stop it.

Keep in mind that once the ideas start flowing you have to put them into permanent form (write them down, record them, etc). Carry a small shirt pocket notepad or an electronic voice recorder at all times.

The main difference between those we call creative and those we don’t isn’t so much a function of the number of ideas generated but rather the number captured. The creative ones just capture more.

Most important though is to put those ideas into action after you get them. An idea without action is worthless.

James Brausch
http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/creating-thinking-or-gearing-up-the-old-brain-71389.html

Imagine an apple farm which normally produces 5 tones of apple every year. It is observed that in case of putting beehives in the farm, the apple production will increase up to 5 times. This is because bees facilitate the process of pollination. If you are one of those who might ask “what does this have to do with business?”, then go on reading this article.

As a business owner or top level manager, you will be working with people who have different abilities. The better you manage them and have them use their abilities to a maximum level, the better results you’ll achieve. I believe management is an art; Therefore as a manager, or better to say artist and professional in working with people, it is important to be able to choose the right person for the right position. Knowledgeable personnel are essential to any business, but they are not necessarily enough for success. You need a little more than this. And people with innovative minds are the response to this need.

Innovation is the process of making improvements by introducing something new. Peter Drucker defines innovation as a “change that creates a new dimension of performance”. People with innovative minds can be catalysts to your business and add to the speed of your business in the road of success. Innovative personnel play the role of bees in your business farm!

The most important asset your business owns is the knowledge of its work force. However if you can not extract this knowledge to your benefit, you can not stay alive in the competitive world of business today. Here the value of innovative personnel would be more significant. They can add value to your business, make improvements in your working strategy, and even bring the other personnel in the road.

Innovation typically involves creativity, but is not identical to it: innovation involves acting on the creative ideas to make some specific and tangible difference in the domain in which the innovation occurs. For innovation to occur, something more than the generation of a creative idea or insight is required. That is, the insight must be put into action to make a significant difference, resulting for example in new or altered business processes within the organization, or changes in the products and services provided. It should be noted that the term ‘innovation’ is used by many authors rather interchangeably with the term ‘creativity‘ when discussing individual and organizational creative activity. However they are not the same. Creativity is typically seen as the basis for innovation, and innovation as the successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

While innovation typically adds value, it may also have a negative or destructive effect as new developments clear away or change old organizational forms and practices. Organizations that do not innovate effectively may be destroyed by those that do. There are techniques for managing innovation though. As a business owner, you must notice that while innovation could be a key to success, it is not the only factor for success and there are other factors to be considered too.

Mehran Nejati
http://www.articlesbase.com/human-resources-articles/innovative-personnel-a-catalyst-to-your-business-59791.html

The average chiropractor salary has experienced significant growth more recently because of the U.S. aging population. Though it varies from state to state, with every state combined, the average salary in the United States is about $80,000. A comprehensive basic market pricing report was conducted, and Certified Compensated Professionals were all a part of the study. There is certainly is decent money for performing chiropractor services, so if this sounds like good money to you and you enjoy this type of work, you may very well want to go to school to get certified.

So What Is Entailed With Chiropractor Services?

Following years of extensive training, a chiropractor must oversee the patient diagnosis, and they must treat and prevent musculoskeletal conditions. These conditions are found in the spinal column and extremities. To render the greatest benefit for a client’s ailments, you will have to correct abnormalities caused by problems or interferences with the nervous system. You will also need to be a graduate of an accredited chiropractor program, and lastly you will also need a license as a chiropractor.

To be established in this field and get the merits of chiropractor salaries, you must be familiar with the standard concepts, practices and procedures within the field. You will have to rely a lot on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish your goals. You will have to be able to perform a variety of tasks, and you may find yourself having to report to a medical director. You will need to have a wide degree of creativity and experience, as all of these are important areas to receive at a minimum the average chiropractor salary.

The salary earned by a chiropractor is definitely a wage you can live off, and you will need to make sure you have followed all of the appropriate steps so you can reach this goal in not exceed this over time. You need to go through an accredited course to be able to be licensed for this type of work, as the license is mandatory in order to even practice the medicine.

The average chiropractor salary does change from state to state, so some states have higher salaries than others do. It just depends where you live and how popular chiropractic medicine is, and it also depends on the type of clients you have. Some clients naturally pay more for a good chiropractor they can trust and rely on.

Chiropractors are becoming more popular as people are trying alternative methods of healing before attempting surgeries, and many people are looking for a chiropractor that can help them with the after affects of surgery. If it sounds like you can use these skills, then the field of chiropractor service may be just what you have been looking for.

Alexander Thomas
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/facts-and-figures-a-look-at-chiropractor-salaries-111247.html