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Thinking Outside the Box–Literally

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

We’ve all heard the advice, “Think outside the box,” but now, thanks to a team of researchers, the cliché takes on a whole new, literal meaning. In a Times op-ed piece, three scholars of management and organizations—two from the University of Michigan, one from New York University (NYU)—reveal their compelling new findings about creativity. The [...]

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Nurturing the Next Steve Jobs

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Steve Jobs’s death on October 5 has sparked a public conversation about the personal qualities that enabled his astounding innovations and successes. Gene Pinder, writing for the North Carolina-based News and Observer, singles out one factor: Jobs “joined his love for the humanities and art with steely analytical thinking and discipline. Both served him well, [...]

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Imagination: The Greatest Problem Solver

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Christopher St. Clair

When hurricane Irene hit, we instinctively looked to the individuals and organizations whom we admire for their imaginative strength to do something practical, something that would instantly come to the aid of those in need, without speeches, without philosophical observations, without ideological investment in the future. Something practical—now.

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Nature and the Brain

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Linda Miles

I spent parts of my childhood summers at camp, where youngsters slept cricket-infused nights in canvas bungalows and swam and hiked through mosquito-blitzed days. As a teenager, I backpacked in the Adirondacks and the Rockies. I have idly gazed at sunsets on the west coasts of Michigan, of Florida, and of a small island in [...]

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You Can’t Teach an Old Brain … or Can You?

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In her New York Times article “How to Train the Aging Brain,” Barbara Strauch discusses ways in which people in middle age and beyond can keep their brains strong and nimble. Although there is no lack of evidence that certain brain functions, such as memory, tend to weaken in aging people, scientists now agree that [...]

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The Spark

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

One of the major points in three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman’s March 21 New York Times op-ed column echoes an argument that Eric Liu and I make in Imagination First. Writing enthusiastically about the recent Washington, D.C., awards dinner honoring finalists in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search—a competition that asks high school [...]

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Imagination Means Business

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

One aim of Lincoln Center Institute’s Imagination Conversations is to demonstrate to audiences that imagination is not only the province of artists but, rather, is central to the fields of education, science, government, and business. A recent New York Times article by Lane Wallace, “Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School?”, reveals that some thought leaders in [...]

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