ZiDEAS: Creativity and Innovation Group

09/25/2025

Proof that a deliberate and learned approach to creativity is more beneficial than not?

One of the most important inventions of the 19th century was mauve dye, the first synthetic aniline dye.

03/27/2021

https://hbr.org/2017/06/motivating-employees-is-not-about-carrots-or-sticks?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=linkedin&tpcc=orgsocial_edit

Make sure they understand why their work matters.

01/29/2021

Seek past perspectives to inform your future. How might this help?

https://seths.blog/2021/01/panes-of-glass/?fbclid=IwAR1niMgM25lRn-rOeV6y7AwpVDy4wSry8j3BRrWJ7Q0-4gLg3ACkHNqkoug

We have windowpanes because glass used to be really expensive. Panes allowed us to use smaller sheets, with the added bonus that if one broke, you could simply replace part of the window. Today, bi…

12/22/2020

04/05/2020

Simple. Effective.

Are you taking action or are you simply in motion? Read this article to discover the common mistake smart people make (and how to avoid it).

10/14/2019

A useful book:

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

"Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up?"

Why is change so difficult and frightening? How do you create change when you have few resources and no title or authority to back you up...

09/11/2019

"Recognize that every interaction you have is an opportunity to make positive impact on others."

- Shep Hyken

08/22/2019

A helpful little bit on Innovation:

http://www.business.rutgers.edu/thought-leadership - Innovation entails integrating technologies and other knowledge into a whole product, a whole technology...

08/14/2019

Sometimes, if you can’t find a solution to the problem, you change the problem instead.

08/14/2019

“While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished” - Jonathan Ive

New York Times review:

"Are they completely nuts?...Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still be readable 200 years from now".

ZiDEAS helps YOUR thinking up of POWERFUL IDEAS and how to ensure they ARE kept ALIVE.

“Are they completely nuts?” read the review from the New York Times of Amazon’s original Kindle e-reader back in 2007.