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I’ve always had a bias toward efficiency. I like to move fast. Life is exciting, and there’s so much to do. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to the energy of action—checking things off, ...

As educators face an ever-increasing focus on standards-driven instruction, it may seem like there are fewer opportunities to foster students’ creativity. But I believe that standards-based ...

In the 1950s, General Mills launched a line of cake mixes under the famous Betty Crocker brand. The cake mixes included all the dry ingredients in the package, plus milk and eggs in powdered form. All ...

Employers increasingly look for soft skills like creativity and communication when they make hiring decisions. To prepare graduates for a successful entry into the workforce, colleges need to find new ...

When a project underperforms, it exposes gaps that couldn’t be seen up front, and taking note of them can help account teams avoid similar issues in the future.

For decades, the pace of creativity—generation of novel and useful ideas—in health care delivery organizations (for example, hospitals and medical groups) has been slow. Additionally, despite the ...

The Richard Rodgers Theatre, on West 46th Street in Manhattan, has 1,321 seats. But you can’t sit in any of them—not unless you wait a really long time, or pay an extortionate amount of money. That’s ...

Don’t listen to nay-sayers. Several times during the game you heard that never in the history of Super Bowl did a team make up a 20-point deficit (or was is 10 points?). You also heard that never was ...

The quick backstory of Sans Forgetica is this: Australia-based psychology researchers, design specialists, and behavioral scientists – folks who don’t usually spend a lot of time together – got ...

In the 1950s, General Mills launched a line of cake mixes under the famous Betty Crocker brand. The cake mixes included all the dry ingredients in the package, plus milk and eggs in powdered form. All ...