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Penny for your thoughts? Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Want more good ideas from your workers? Try giving them a reward – and a choice

A recent study found that offering workers a choice of what type of reward they would like for offering good suggestions increased the volume of submissions and their creativity too.
Creativity can be used in countless ways – with positive or negative consequences. Dusan Stankovic/E+ Collection via Getty Images

How parents can foster ‘positive creativity’ in kids to make the world a better place

Parents often want their kids to be creative. But while creativity has many benefits, it can also be used for harm. Here’s how to teach kids to harness their imagination for the common good.
By encouraging random encounters and free-flowing conversation, coffee shops are engines of innovation. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images

Why being stuck at home – and unable to hang out in cafes and bars – drains our creativity

By missing out on chance encounters and observations that jolt ‘a-ha’ moments, new ideas, big and small, go undiscovered.
Relishing the independence of the mind is the basis for naturally imaginative activity. Shutterstock

Why it is (almost) impossible to teach creativity

Our contemporary education systematically trashes creativity and unwittingly punishes students for exercising their imagination.

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