Managing Creativity


Recent Managing Creativity Articles

Adrian Slywotzky Interview: Having a Magnetic Offer

A graduate from Harvard's Law and Business schools, Adrian Slywotzk...  Read more

The Case Against "Sexy" Innovation

What the world needs isn't more ideas—it's better, more innovative systems for executing them, says author and ChangeLabs founder Peter Sheahan.  Read more

From Metal Factory to Architectural Innovator

How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects.  View slideshow

Inspiring Future Generations to Innovate

So much for trade secrets. Limor Fried has based a business around the idea that everyone can do it themselves.  Read more

Cal McAllister and Ian Cohen, Founders of Wexley School for Girls 

Cal McAllister and Ian Cohen are the founders of the advertising agency, Wexley School for Girls.  Watch video

Book Review: Little Bets

Author Peter Sims addresses the idea of creative innovation.  Read more

A Start-up Combines Slim Jims and Red Bull

Meet the founder of a new product called Perky Jerky, coming soon to a supermarket near you.  Read more

Comic Books for Entrepreneurs

Six popular business books get an illustrated makeover.  Read more

Reinventing the Way We Teach Engineers

In creating a start-up school of engineering, Olin's Richard Miller first asked, "Can entrepreneurial thinking be taught?"  Read more

Why New Orleans Is the Coolest Start-up City in America

Idea Village, a New Orleans-based not-for-profit that helps support local entrepreneurs, is helping rebuild its city's economic devastation by organizing a s...  Read more

How to Use Competitive Intelligence to Gain an Advantage

A growing industry will help you keep tabs on—and stay ahead of—your company's competition. A guide to ethically gathering data on your rivals  Read more

Inside the $41 Million Investment in Color

Why the investment in to the location based photo sharing app is a good idea, despite the critics.  Read more

Photo Sharing App Gets VC Boost

The new photo sharing app, Color, received $41 million in pre-launch funding from Sequoia and Bain Capital.  Read more

Bringing a Weird Product to Market

Take beef jerky, add Red Bull, and what do you get? An idea for a new product. But will consumers bite?  Read more

4 Ideas From SXSW: Day One

Social media as a career threat, the unsoftware software, and why Twitter is not as revolutionary as you think  Read more

10 Takeaways From TED 2011

Being wrong is as essential to life as being right, the rise of the "filter bubble," and other ideas from the annual ideas summit that are worth repeating.  Read more

How to Market Your Business at SXSW Interactive

Is South by Southwest in danger of being overrun by marketers? Experts advise letting go of traditional strategies in favor of effective grassroots tactics.  Read more

Finding the Next Big Thing at SXSW

SXSW Interactive served as the launching point for Twitter and Foursquare. Here are three intriguing start-ups vying to make their mark in Austin this year.  Read more

How to Foster Innovation Through Diverse Workgroups

Diverse teams can produce better results for your company. Here's how to incorporate diversity—and individuality—to create a more innovative business.  Read more

What CES had to Offer for the New Computer Screen

Life was never meant to be viewed through a little window, and I believe neither was technology.  Look at TVs, computers, cell phones:  all of t...  Read more

3 Must-See SXSW Speakers, Pt. 3

In this third installment of my South by Southwest (SXSW) speaker series, I chose to highlight Bruce Sterling, the closing speaker for the 2011 Read more

3 Must-See SXSW Keynote Speakers, Pt. 2

As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm really looking forward to the 2011 keynote speakers ...  Read more

Review: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

How to sell your ideas to the people who matter.  Read more

How to Get the Most out of Your Co-working Space

A co-working space is not just a rented desk. It's a source of inspiration, collaboration, and for some, a source of business.  Read more

The Coolest Home Offices

Go climb a tree...to your office. These outstanding home workspaces are refreshingly creative.  View slideshow

How Would You Sell Temporary Wallpaper?

Four seasoned entrepreneurs offer marketing strategies for Tempaper.  Read more

10 Tips for Making Employees Love Their Office

Forget the ping-pong table. Master the basics that make workers productive – and happy – in their office space.  Read more

How to Hire for Creativity

If you want to build an innovative company, you had better make it your business to find employees who think outside the box.  Read more

How to Adapt Products for Different Markets

How Violight adapted its toothbrush sanitizer into a cleaning product for cell phones.  Read more

New Search Engine Optimization Methodology

While teaching a social media class last Friday in Columbus, OH, I ran across a company at the technology incubator up there called Read more

Automating Innovation

Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's...  Read more

5 Ways to Improve Quality

Whether you sell a product or a service, these five steps will help you ensure that you are constantly improving the way you do business--to the delight of y...  Read more

Cellphone Lemon Law

A writer at TechNewsWorld wonders if we should have a 'lemon law' for...  Read more

Shaking America By Storm

The man who invented the Shake Weight talks about bringing a successful product to market, sexual innuendo, and Michelle Obama's arms.  Read more