Blog Post 4 Assignment - Due March 25th

For this blog, I would like for you to read one additional, more recent article about creativity.  There have been a number of assertions and many pages of research about creativity and there still seems to be a good bit of debate about what makes people and organizations more creative (and, then, assumedly, more innovative).  This latest article appeared in the Wall Street Journal just over a week ago and provides another take on the topic.  

How to be Creative by Jonah Leher (WSJ)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203370604577265632205015846.html

The response for this is a bit more open than the previous blog topics.  Overall, I want to hear your thoughts about creativity and innovation as an individual and within organizations.  Here are some questions you can consider, but you can address other issues related to this topic if you have other things to say on this.

1.  What are you personal experiences with individual creativity?  Have you had times when you felt especially creative or, even, especially uncreative?

2.  What are your personal experiences with organizational creativity?  Have you worked at companies that felt or behaved in ways that made them more creative or, even, especially uncreative?

3.  Do you think you, as an individual, are even capable of being creative by yourself?  And, better yet, do you think a group within an organization is capable of being creative?  

4.  What do you think about this article and the way this author describes different creative types of problems and, thus, different creative processes?  Should we trust ourselves just to know or sense when we need one type of approach versus another?

As always, please keep the blog guidelines in mind, which are posted in top right column of the page. (Minimum length: (compared to a Word doc) 1.5 pages, single-spaced, Times New-Roman, 1-inch margins (although your blog does not have to be formatted that way).)