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Nov 19, 2017, 8:30 AM

Men’s cooking: how to cook a turkey in ten minutes

Almost everyone knows that the fourth Thursday in November is ‘Thanksgiving Day,’ an important holiday in the United States, celebrating the first harvest in the new world and a meal that the Pilgrims shared with their Native American friends...

Nov 11, 2017, 7:40 PM

What is Creativity At Work?

Once again, what is creativity at work? Creativity is the combining of old bits & pieces in your mind (and also in your surroundings) to produce 'new and useful' ideas. It is the conversion of old ideas into new ideas....

Oct 21, 2017, 12:49 PM

Happy Halloween: Omens And Portents

My life sometimes seems full of Halloween portents and omens. When I moved to North Carolina, we lived on the shore of a large lake; I occasionally watched an eagle gracefully swoop down, a picture of serenity, and suddenly...

Oct 8, 2017, 10:43 PM

Habits Managers Need to Change to Help Creativity at Work

Managers have habits that may be productive in some situations, and still impair creativity at work. For example..... The Quick Fixer settles for the first adequate solution to a problem, and thereby halts creative ability to find a better solution. Avoid the...

Sep 9, 2017, 8:46 PM

How To Solve Problems Creatively Using The Zen Moment At Work

Both Zen and creative thinking emphasize the intuitive, rather than rational thinking, and some elements of Zen can be applied to enhance creative thinking. In "Zen Culture," Thomas Hoover describes how Zen has affected swordsmanship, archery, ink painting, and Haiku...

Sep 4, 2017, 7:03 PM

How To Start Writing After Retirement From Work

When I retired, I realized I knew lots of stuff my family didn't know, so I wrote 5 books in 9 months: one on weight loss and nutrition; two on magic tricks; and two on creativity & innovation at...

Aug 26, 2017, 8:12 PM

Stimulate Creativity and Creativity Triggers At Work

(You do want to be more creative and successful than your competitors, don’t you?) Eliminate The Box from Your Thinking There is no box. There never was a box. The box you were asked to think outside of never existed, a...

Aug 11, 2017, 11:47 PM

How To Improve Creative Output and Innovation In R&D Teams At Work

Working on breast cancer research at the Ben-Porath laboratory, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Relationships in R&D (Research & Development) teams matter - fully 50% of scientists and engineers involved in the field stated that “other people” were the biggest help to their creativity at work

Jul 31, 2017, 6:52 PM

How Your Leadership Style Can Help Creativity At Work

To help your work team be more creative and productive, you will need the flexibility to model your behavior on a variety of leadership styles. Admittedly, it is difficult to change a leadership style, but it can be done. Here are...

Jul 23, 2017, 7:39 PM

Mind Channels & Half Of Eight

Mind channels are a useful creativity metaphor for the potential collectors in our minds that capture problems and stifle creativity. We keep trying to get a solution from the same mind channel, even though it doesn’t work. The antidote is...

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About Me

Ed Glassman, Ph.D., is professor emeritus and former head of the "Program for Team Effectiveness and Creativity," in the medical school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was also a visiting fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina.