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World economy: Is the pendulum swinging back?
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 12/10/2017
» Around the time we entered the new millennium, humanity moved from information intensification into a new economic age: the age of creation intensification. In the innovation economy, the key competitive advantage of individuals, companies and countries alike is creation -- the ability to use existing and newly emerging theories, know-how and technologies to create novel, original and meaningful value.
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Does your talent fit your work environment?
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 25/05/2017
» Albert Einstein once said: "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Sadly, many business people are on career tracks where they feel like a fish being asked to climb a tree.
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Success ingredients of top achievers
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 17/03/2016
» 'Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play," the German philosopher Immanuel Kant once said. Do you have both theoretical knowledge and practical experience in what you do? And can these two ingredients alone lead you to professional success?
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Start living a creative life in 2016
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 07/01/2016
» Happy New Year to all of you! The beginning of a new year is always a fresh start, and the time to set resolutions for a new, better you. Today I would like to persuade you to pursue an unusual resolution in 2016: Begin living a creative life.
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How analytical thinking complements creative thinking
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 14/05/2015
» 'Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it," said the American entrepreneur Henry Ford. Thomas Watson of IBM agreed: "All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
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Creativity along the road less travelled
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 02/04/2015
» 'Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference", wrote Robert Frost in "The Road Not Taken".
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Creativity in the Year of the Sheep (or Goat, or Ram)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 19/02/2015
» Gong Xi Fa Cai — Happy Chinese New Year! Today is the start of the Year of the Sheep — or maybe the Goat or the Ram. A ram is just a male sheep, but goats are as different from sheep as lions are from tigers. Goats have beards, while sheep have manes. Sheep prefer to eat ground cover such as grass, but goats prefer to eat higher foliage. Goats are more individual and curious, but sheep stay put in their flock. So is this the Year of the Sheep (or Ram) or of the Goat? The Chinese character is ambiguous, so it depends on which tradition you choose to follow. I’ll choose sheep, as I find thinking about them more stimulating. What do sheep have to teach us?
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World Cup footballers can give innovation lessons to business
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 05/06/2014
» Next week the 20th Fifa World Cup will begin, and for the next month much of the world including me will focus on the momentous trifle that is football. Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Everything is connected to everything else.” So let’s connect our passion for football to our passion for innovation. What does a team need to win the World Cup? And how can that help us win at innovation?
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Why the evolution of creative leaders really matters (Part 2)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 27/02/2014
» My last column discussed some current fundamental threats to everyone’s well-being:
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Creative Leadership: Are you hot or not?
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 16/01/2014
» Creative leadership is a new emerging mega-trend in business. In a recent global business study of IBM, 60% of the interviewed chief executives of the world's leading corporations named creativity as the most important leadership quality to capitalise flexibly on the increasingly complex business environment of the early 21st century.
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