I’m now in Amsterdam where I just gave a talk about collaborative creativity at the big European educational research association, known as EARLI. The organizers of the panel were Neil Mercer (University of Cambridge) and Karen Littleton (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland). Four people spoke about this topic: Eva Vass (University of Bath) described her research… Read More Collaboration and Learning
Netflix announced its $1 million challenge in October 2006. And the contest has now been won. The big news is that collaboration was the key. The Netflix web site has an automatic program that recommends movies that it thinks you will like, based on the number of stars you give to movies you’ve already rented. … Read More The Netflix Prize
You may believe in some variant of this myth: Creative people are more likely to be mentally ill than non-creative people; artists and writers are more likely to be alcoholics, clinically depressed, or commit suicide. Anyone can think of at least one famous artist or writer who committed suicide (Hemingway, Plath) or did some other… Read More The Myth of the Mentally Ill Creative
I enjoyed the interview with John T. Chambers, CEO of Cisco, in Sunday’s New York Times (Business section page 2, by Adam Bryant). When Bryant asked “How has your leadership style evolved over time?” Chambers said this: I’m a command-and-control person. I like being able to say turn right, and we truly have 67,000 people… Read More Collaboration at Cisco
The Creativity Guru 