Creativity

Canada, singular and plural

by Bill Wren on July 1, 2011

(Originally published July 1, 2010 on Thoughtwrestling as “The Canadas.”) Canada is both problem and solution. It’s an ongoing exercise in creativity and problem solving. Sometimes it works out well; sometimes not. And it’s really, really big! Its lessons are big too. When it comes to solving problems and being creative, it provides the biggest [...]

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Creativity can obscure your message

by Bill Wren on April 28, 2011

In an age of digital this and that, when many of us live large parts of our lives online, creativity often obfuscates our message. Obfuscate means to “render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible,” as my dictionary defines it. It’s not that the creativity we bring to something isn’t imaginative. It’s often very imaginative; very clever and [...]

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Art and utility

by Bill Wren on December 19, 2010

Over the past year (much longer, actually), we’ve seen the idea of creativity being the key to business success in the world and the world as it is evolving. We’ve seen new phrases pop up like “the creative economy” or “tell your story.” When we talk about creativity, we inevitably talk about art. Not all [...]

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About the other fiction of Disrupted Lives

by Bill Wren on September 25, 2010

I had an idea about this ebook I put together, Disrupted Lives and Other commotions. I decided against it for a number of reasons but it keeps popping up in some of my tweets and Facebook updates. Let me describe the idea. The ebook is made up of seven stories. So it is fiction (with [...]

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Exuberance fuels creativity – book review

by Bill Wren on June 22, 2010

“Life could be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.” – McHugh/Fields – (This review originally appeared on the Thoughtwrestling blog, June 8, 2010.) I think it’s safe to say most people would rather be happy than unhappy. You feel better when you’re happy. There is also another reason why I prefer it: [...]

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