Nearly all great ideas follow a similar creative process and this articles explains how this process works. Understanding this is important because creative thinking is one of the most useful skills ...

Among all the talents, attributes, traits, and habits that make for a high- level team member, the ability to confront and creatively solve problems is right there at the top of the list. There is a ...

This time-worn advice has been offered as a panacea for getting out of all manner of ruts and for jump-starting innovation. But how you exactly go about coming up with a creative solution to a problem ...

Popular media would have every new entrepreneur believe that it takes a lot of capital to build a successful business. While it does take capital, it doesn’t take a visit to the Shark Tank, an angel ...

Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative ...

Today, a creative mindset is necessary for understanding any type of audience, whether it is users, readers or customers. Businesses of all shapes and sizes benefit when creativity is baked into every ...

The author describes research on microcomputer enhancement of creative problem-solving for visually oriented individuals. The research is based on the premise that the microcomputer should be used to ...

“As you may know, Buffalo is the birthplace of the academic study of creativity (and the term ‘brainstorm’). This year my organization, the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) will be ...

Edward Burger has long argued that the path to learning is not necessarily a straight line. As a mathematics professor at Williams College, he encouraged students to learn by failing to achieve a task ...

When you have used a particular tool, item, or object for one sole purpose again and again, your brain can sometimes associate it with only that use. This concept is called functional fixedness.