Tag Archives: Creativity

How to Win a War

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted to Medium. What do you need to win a war? A few things. First, an army equipped with modern weapons and instilled with high … Continue reading

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Being an Expert: Traveling the Same Road Again and Again

This image was created by Tatiana Ivanov There are two major reasons for the slow adoption of crowdsourcing as a practical problem-solving tool. The first is a widespread, often completely paralyzing uncertainty over which problem crowdsourcing can (or can’t) solve. … Continue reading

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A Dried-Up Innovation: How Prohibition Disrupted Natural Social Networks

This image was created with the help of Stable Diffusion Online This piece has been originally posted on Medium. What is the effect of government regulations on innovation? The most comprehensive answer to this question is: It depends. It can … Continue reading

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Innovating in a Dream (or With a Drink)

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted on Medium. In a previous article, I argued that the widespread belief that we are swimming in an ocean of cheap innovative ideas — embodied … Continue reading

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12 Thoughts About Crowdsourcing

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has originally been posted on Medium. The following are twelve thoughts about crowdsourcing taken from my recently published book “We the People of the Crowd…” and summarizing my … Continue reading

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Ideas are a dime a dozen. Are they really?

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted on Medium. Did you hear that idea generation is the easiest part of the innovation process? I’m sure you did. Generating ideas is easy, … Continue reading

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How to Build Your Innovation Dream Team?

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted to Medium. You can hear this time and again: innovation is all about people. Even if you’re a great fan of AI, you’d hardly … Continue reading

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Innovating in Your Dream and With a Drink

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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A sober look at drinking and creativity

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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Are you bored to death and procrastinating? Good for you!

In my two previous posts (here and here), I argued that the wide-spread belief that we are swimming in an ocean of cheap innovative ideas–solidified in a popular slogan “ideas are a dime a dozen”–is a myth. Available evidence suggests … Continue reading

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