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Childlike Creativity

At Idea Sandbox we talk a lot about being childlike and using your imagination... how solving problems is about creativity and how creativity is driven by your ability to imagine new ideas... I found this interesting bit about being more like [...]

Childlike Creativity

Creativity Is More Practice Than Magic

As problem solvers our role is to support companies, clients, and customers by solving their business problems. We’re asked to help drive sales, increase traffic, and build community. These challenges, and others, are solved through our ability to combine ideas in [...]

Creativity Is More Practice Than Magic

Better Brainstorming Mad Lib

Leonard Stern, the inventor of the "World's Greatest Word Game" Mad Libs, passed away in June of 2011 at the age of 88. In his honor, I've created a "Better Brainstorming" Mad Lib. Mad Libs - as a creativity tool - [...]

Better Brainstorming Mad Lib

The Person With The Best Imagination Wins

Einstein once said, "imagination is better than knowledge." It is more important to see possibilities than to know the facts. Dan Roam, in his book Unfolding the Napkin, wrote: "Problems don't get solved by the smartest or the fastest or the [...]

The Person With The Best Imagination Wins

Teacher Problem-Solves Budget Cuts

Did you see the article last week in USA Today about the teacher who is selling ads on tests to make money to afford to make copies? Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, California [...]

Teacher Problem-Solves Budget Cuts

Creative Problem Solving: Invention of the Ice Cream Cone

The weather is warming up here in Amsterdam... We've had a week of sun and temperatures in the mid-70s. It's ice cream weather, which brings to mind creative problem solving and the invention of the ice cream cone. In September 1904 [...]

Creative Problem Solving: Invention of the Ice Cream Cone

Wanna Be A Simpson?

Are you as impressed as I am about the attention the Simpsons movie is getting? They've done a great job promoting it. The best tactic was the transformation of 7-Eleven locations into Kwik-E-Marts. These are the convenience stores in the cartoon [...]

Wanna Be A Simpson?
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