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Teams have an inherent advantage in the identification of the best ideas. A collaborative team will consider the invention from a greater variety of viewpoints and potential applications; such broader consideration is more likely to uncover problems. Given the typically greater diversity of experience on a collaborative team, some member is more likely to recall having seen a problem with a similar invention and argue to abandon or modify the approach.
In short, collaborative creativity will subject individually conceived ideas to a more rigorous selection process so that fewer poor ideas are pursued. Independent of the idea’s source (lone versus collaborative), we propose that collaboration improves the effectiveness of the selection phase because collaborative selection will be more rigorous than lone selection.
”Singh & Fleming in Management Science 2010
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.
A talk by Dr. Howard Gardner explaining the topic of his most recent book “Five Minds for the Future”. He argues that there are five types of “minds” - 1) The Disciplined Mind; 2) The Synthesizing Mind; 3) The Creating Mind; 4) The Respectful Mind; and 5) The Ethical Mind - and then details the implications for our system of education.
