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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:42:38 GMT--><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Creativity Matters</title><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/</link><description>Creativity, Leadership, Innovation, Execuitve Education, Management, Business, Leadership</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:28:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><copyright>This material is copyright and owned by Ralph Kerle</copyright><language>en-AU</language><generator>Squarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</generator><itunes:author>Ralph Kerle</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Creativity Matters</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary>Creativity Matters!</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>Creativity,Innovation,Executive,Education,Management,Business,Leadership</itunes:keywords><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Ralph Kerle</itunes:name><itunes:email>rk@thecreativeleadershipforum.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:category text="Business"/><item><title>We are What We Measure</title><category>Innovation</category><category>Measurement</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:06:53 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/8/we-are-what-we-measure.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6944456</guid><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6944456.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Building Organisational Capabilities - McKinsey Global Survey 2010</title><category>HR</category><category>McKinseys</category><category>OD</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:04:17 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/8/building-organisational-capabilities-mckinsey-global-survey.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6942766</guid><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6942766.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Getting Down to the Business of Creativity</title><category>Entrepreneurship</category><category>behaviours</category><category>creativity</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:46:55 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/7/getting-down-to-the-business-of-creativity.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6933828</guid><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6933828.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Stop saying 'innovation' - Scott Berkun | The Economist</title><category>Ideas</category><category>Innovation</category><category>creativity</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/6/stop-saying-innovation-scott-berkun-the-economist.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6922962</guid><description><![CDATA[Einstein, Ford, Picasso and Edison rarely said the word innovation and neither should you. Every Fortune 500 crowd I've said this to laughs and agrees. The abuse of words like innovation, disruption, game changing and breakthrough is killing us. We're tripping over our own egos, lost in the ignorance of romance for the vagaries of pseudo-thinking associated with these words. The more often people in a company use this word, the less likely anything worthy of that label is actually happening, as it's often the confused and the desperate who believe simply saying a word again and again like a magic spell causes anything at all to happen.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6922962.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Framing Is Everything</title><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/5/framing-is-everything.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6913598</guid><description><![CDATA[A young priest asked his bishop, “May I smoke while praying?” The answer was an emphatic “No!”

Later, when he sees an older priest puffing on a cigarette while praying, the younger priest scolded him, “You shouldn’t be smoking while praying! I asked the bishop, and he said I couldn’t do it!”

“That’s odd,” the old priest replied. “I asked the bishop if I could pray while I’m smoking, and he told me that it was okay to pray at any time!”

As this joke shows, the way you frame a problem profoundly influences the solutions you get. The same problem, when seen from a different angle can lead to a directly opposite interpretation!

Skillfully framing problems is paramount for better problem solving and decision making.

On the flip side, it’s too easy to fall into thinking traps when it comes to framing. Let’s look at one of these traps — and offer some ideas on how to overcome it.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6913598.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Why CEOs Don't Get Innovation - A Nonsense Article from Stefan Lindegaard and BusinessWeek</title><category>Innovation</category><category>Leaders</category><category>MBA</category><category>behaviours</category><category>business</category><category>creativity</category><category>stefan lindegaard</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:31:08 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/5/why-ceos-dont-get-innovation-a-nonsense-article-from-stefan.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6913524</guid><description><![CDATA[I read with interest Business Week entitled why CEO's don't get innovation by Stefan Lindegaard another innovation speaker, network facilitator, and adviser on open innovation and intrapreneurship. He runs all the usual arguments about the inability of organisations to innovate, the spurious argument that leaders now emerging with MBAs are the first with innovation subjects in their degrees (that stat certainly doesn't stack up with our research which is telling us globally universities are failing badly with MBAs, most of whom don't have innovation in their programmes anyway) and summarises with this meaningless statement]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6913524.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Blind Search Test - Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engines</title><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:21:40 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/5/blind-search-test-google-yahoo-and-bing-search-engines.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6913339</guid><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6913339.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>And Google Begat...</title><category>Google</category><category>Innovation</category><category>Startups</category><category>Technology</category><category>web2.0</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:28:22 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/4/and-google-begat.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6902746</guid><description><![CDATA[The search giant's former employees are seeding tech startups—and shaping another wave of innovation

During the holidays last year, Aydin Senkut and Elad Gil gathered 50 of their friends at a health-food restaurant in Palo Alto. Over turkey burgers and tofu wraps, they talked about tech trends and how to get rich. Or, more precisely, how to get richer.

Senkut, Gil, and their dining circle are alumni of Google (GOOG), one of the greatest engines of wealth creation the U.S. has ever known. Since going public six years ago, Google has generated more than $170 billion for its employees and investors. Many of the millionaires the company has produced are young, wired into the latest developments in tech, and at ease with risk. Which explains why so many Google alums—including many of those at Senkut and Gil's gatherings—are active angel investors, attempting to add another zero to their bank accounts and another innovative company to their list of accomplishments. "I feel like we have such a strong network, it's almost like we've recreated Google outside of the Google walls," says Andrea Zurek, a 39-year-old backer of 26 startups.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6902746.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Ideation Success Formula; Eight Suggestions to Improve the Odds - Gregg Fraley</title><category>Gregg Fraley</category><category>Ideation</category><category>Innovation</category><category>brainstorming</category><category>creativity</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/4/ideation-success-formula-eight-suggestions-to-improve-the-od.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6902260</guid><description><![CDATA[There is a growing industry of consultants and companies (Eureka Ranch, What If!, Ideas to Go, Landis, Research International, Brainjuicer, IDEO, and many more independents like myself ) who specialize in assisting the Fortune 1000 with new product development.  They all have different methods – some design oriented, some observational, some with highly structured problem solving methods, others more creative-from-the-gut, but at the end of the day, at some point, they all tend to rely on some form of brainstorming.  After all to get to a new product you need a new product idea, and, as they say, they don’t grow on trees.

Brainstorming has been around for years of course.  Alex Osborn coined the term and wrote the original book on the subject, Applied Imagination.  In the USA the term Brainstorming h]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6902260.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The Innovation Delusion - Ralph Gomory, the Huffington Post</title><category>Innovation</category><category>economics</category><category>management</category><category>trade</category><dc:creator>Ralph Kerle</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/2010/3/3/the-innovation-delusion-ralph-gomory-the-huffington-post.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">110188:979863:6894286</guid><description><![CDATA[In the United States, innovation has become almost synonymous with economic competitiveness. Even more remarkable, we often hear that our economic salvation can only be through innovation. We hear that because of low Asian wages we must innovate because we cannot really compete in anything else. Inventive Americans will do the R&D and let the rest of the world, usually China, do the dull work of actually making things. Or we'll do programming design but let the rest of the world, usually India, do low-level programming. This is a totally mistaken belief and one that, if accepted, will consign this nation to second- or third-class status.

The latest offender to advance this line of thought is Thomas Friedman, who has prominently displayed this familiar and entirely incorrect line of thought in the New York Times. Unfortunately, this idea is one that is widely accepted without careful thought about either its truthfulness or its consequences.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.thecreativeleadershipforum.com/creativity-matters-blog/rss-comments-entry-6894286.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>