Creativity and innovation provide competitive advantage, therefore hire creative people, suggests a pull-out section of Inc. Magazine called “How To: Hire For Creativity.” You may have many creative people in your organization but if its culture is resistant to change, many great ideas may not see the light of day. If you’d like to achieve a balance between fostering new ideas and sustaining performance, you need to build the conditions that allow creativity to flourish. Paul Williams offers 6 tips [...]
Archive for September, 2010
According to scientists in an article in The New York Times, what we have broadly accepted as the best environment to improve learning has now been contradicted by their research findings. Scientists recommend that “instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing.” In a research paper, published in the journal Psychological [...]
