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Studies…suggest that dissatisfaction promotes creativity only when people feel committed and supported – and that cultural misfits are most likely to add value when they have strong bonds with their colleagues.
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Creativity and innovation may even be the key to the future economic prosperity of America and other developed countries…
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Economic value will arise instead from the powers of the right brain – creativity, imagination, empathy, and aesthetics.
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Creativity and innovation have always been important; what’s new is that they’re becoming economically more valuable by the day.
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Great creators seem time and again to be struck by lightning bolts that reveal what no one else had seen or thought or imagined before.
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Over and over, the organizations that knew all there was to know about a technology or an industry failed to make the creative breakthroughs that would transform the business.
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…in finding creative solutions to problems, knowledge – the more the better – is your friend, not your enemy. And it shows that creativity isn’t a lightning bolt.
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Creative achievement never came suddenly, even in those cases in which the creator later claimed that it did.
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…in many creative fields the person who pursues an advanced degree has consciously chosen a path to a professorship, not to a life of innovating in that domain.
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…creative achievement is attained in the same way as other kinds of achievement.
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