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Now is the time to rethink long-held strategic assumptions inside your company, to challenge decades of conventional wisdom in your industry, and to push yourself to learn, grow, and innovate. ... Here, then, are ten questions that leaders must ask of themselves and their organizations — questions that speak to the challenges of change at a moment when change is the name of the game. The leaders with the best answers win.

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Economic downturns are as much about psychology as about GNP, as much about withering confidence as about shrinking employment. As individual leaders, we have no control over whether banks will lend or consumers will spend. But we do control our own mindsets and "animal spirits" -- the memorable phrase coined by an even more influential economist, John Maynard Keynes, in the depths of the Great Depression.

Here's Keynes: "A large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive. . .can only be taken as the result of animal spirits -- a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities."

Translation: If all you've got is a spreadsheet filled with red ink and grim forecasts, it's easy to be paralyzed by fear. But if you've got some leadership nerve, if you can summon those "animal spirits" of which Keynes writes, then hard times can be a great time to separate yourself from the pack and build advantages for years to come.

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Would you like to be more creative in your copy and blogging? It’s really not as hard or mysterious as you might think.

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Baby-mind: letting the latern of learning lay its warm radiance across the input landscape; brain research, links to literature on flow, meditation, jazz, movie watching, creativity!

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Sutton summarizes his thoughts about brainstorming and some "silly" research suggesting that individuals are more creative of new ideas than groups engaged in brainstorming. Links to a Sutton academic article, as well.

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David Straker: Our goal is to provide you with real and useful principles, tools, articles and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity.

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Garr Reynolds share his list of principles that he finds in both Zen and jazz that guide his thinking on presentations (and beyond, of course)

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HR World links to the sites of others in a variety of areas of leadership, management, organzations, business.

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In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. He describes the rising role

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Peters urges us to "never, ever hire a person who had 4.0 GPA"! We need people who, at least some of the time, were "screwing around," "not coloring within the lines." The definition of 4.0 is "bought the act."

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