Creativity & Innovation

Employees in class

Designing Leaders is conducting an information session today in Singapore titled “Creating a Collaborative & Innovative Work Environment.” We will come back soon with some of the thoughts and insights that emerge from the seminar!

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Measuring Creativity and Innovation

As a leader you need to be able to evaluate your employees’ performance so you know what works and you can improve upon what doesn’t. Measuring creativity and innovation, however, is hard to do. It is easy to know how many cases a detective solves or how many widgets an assembly line worker makes, but […]

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Keys to a Creative Culture

Retaining employees

You can hire creative people, you can have them teleworking or sitting in an open-air office, your can pay them better than your competitors can match, but that does not guarantee you creativity. Your employees cannot just be creative on demand, or on certain days of the week, if they are going to be most […]

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Book Review: Closing the Innovation Gap

Calling customers to stay in touch

Judy Estrin is worried about the innovation gap that developed in America in the early part of this century. Her ideas for overcoming it are useful for any country that is trying to build up some degree of innovation and creativity in business and technology. Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in […]

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Shift the Learning, Shift the Style

Retaining employees

A few years ago, the American radio show All Things Considered talked about the new way of learning to design video games. In days of old (which was only, what, 25 years ago?) most video game designers learned from other designers, a form of apprenticeship that was common 200 years ago and is still often […]

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