Category Archives: Creativity

Innovating in Your Dream and With a Drink

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Eugene Ivanov

There are a few reported approaches to boosting human creativity. Some of them are very proper. Perhaps the most popular is taking a shower — especially if followed by going to the garden and sitting under the apple tree. Another … Continue reading →

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Yes, size matters. It’s just not that the bigger is always the better

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

Among many of Jeff Bezos’s wisdoms, his two-pizza rule is one of the most famous. It states that every internal team should be small enough that it can be fed with two pizzas–to make meetings more effective and the teams … Continue reading →

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3 best innovation team formulas (and when to ignore them)

Posted on June 10, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

This article first appeared on Qmarkets blog in 2017 and is reproduced here with some modifications. You’ve heard this cliché many times before: innovation is all about people. Even if you’re an avid fan of AI, you hardly expect robots … Continue reading →

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A sober look at drinking and creativity

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

In one of my prior lives, I was a researcher in a Russian academic lab. A colleague of mine was studying the effects of ethanol alcohol on yeast cells. Every time she presented project updates to the rest of the … Continue reading →

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Want a Big Idea? Take a Shower and Sit Under the Apple Tree

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) I’m really amused by how many people claim that their best creative ideas come to them in the shower. What is so special about the shower being a cradle of creative ideas? … Continue reading →

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