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Don’t Assume You’re Normal: What You Can Learn from Other Creative Cultures
Photo by fdecomiteIn his book The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria argues that there have been 'three tectonic power shifts over the last five hundred years'. Each of these shifts profoundly …
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What Family Guy Can Teach You About the
Business of Creativity
Family Guy. It’s crude, rude, and, according to its detractors… badly drawn. But the show has a rabid fan base that’s brought it back from the dead not once, but twice. And it’s the basis of a $2 …
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Creative Rock Stars Give Something Back
It is also part of Blog Action Day, which this year is about Poverty. Charity is one of the nicer rock-and-roll cliches. These days, it's easy to be cynical about celebrities who talk about their …
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The Rise of the Creative Economy
In the last post we looked at the converging economic forces that make creativity a hot property in the 21st century. Mature economies such as the US, Europe, and Japan, which previously shifted from …
Innovate or Die: Why Creativity Is Economic Priority Number One
So you’ve met Lou, Jack and Marla, and you can see they’ve experienced a relative change of fortunes in recent years. Once upon a time Lou, with his MBA and finely-tuned productivity system, was …
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