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26th July 2005

Essential Resources for Creativity

“Creativity and innovation thinking are topics that I have been searching recently. Below are those couple of sites’ resource links + some related recommended books that related to creativity and innovation. Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas.”

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26th July 2005

Credit Line Goes Here

“Who designed this poster? Well, I did, of course. Basically. More or less. Design is essentially a collaborative enterprise. That makes assigning credit for the products of our work a complicated issue. Take the poster above. When it’s published, it’s often credited just to me. But its genesis is a little more complicated.”

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26th July 2005

Managing for Creativity

“Over many years, the leaders of SAS Institute have distilled a set of principles for getting peak performance from creative people. Among them: Value the work over the tools, reward excellence with challenges, and minimize hassles.”

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