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Innovation Team Director finds right mix of theory and application to inspire creativity

Harvard Professional Development

What motivated you to take Creative Thinking at Harvard PDP? For much of my career, I contributed to pharmaceutical and biotech drug discovery as a scientist, team leader, and scientific program manager. How has the program helped your career development? I’m a scientist by training.

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14 Ways to Increase Creativity, Backed By Research [And Why it Matters]

She Owns Success

What’s more, mindfulness meditation does three things that help to improve creativity ( According to the book, Mindfulness for Creativity by Danny Penman) It turns on divergent thinking, meaning it opens your mind to different ways of thinking since it’s about exploring many possibilities rather than finding the one correct answer.

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From Daydreams to Daily Life: Focus on Creativity in the Coaching Journey for Lasting Change

International Coach Academy

Designers follow a design thinking process that involves empathy, creativity, and rapid prototyping; similarly, the coaching process involves both understanding clients’ perspectives and continuous improvement and adaptation. We can observe that clients have a preferred “brain” and the tendency is to overuse it.

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Perfectionism is Not Pathology

Your Work, Your Way

As with any other kind of divergent thinking, we (and I am a Classic Perfectionist ) can and should stop thinking of ourselves as broken and needing to be fixed. We just need a little more love and understanding.