Talent, Creativity, & Innovation (TCI)
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Course 4- Talent, Creativity, & Innovation (TCI)
To comprehend the difference between Talent, Creativity, & Innovation, Invention, Passion, Curiosity, and Imagination. Understand the type, characteristics, process, obstacles & measurements of talent, creativity, & innovation. How these three concepts relate to our life and how to apply them in our organizations.
By: Dr. Osama Isaac — Founder
World-Class Education to All
Osama’s life mission is bringing back the soul, passion, and curiosity to education, with the dream to provide free, innovative and world-class education for anyone, anywhere with the focus in the Arab world. He is currently an associate professor at Faculty of Business, Lincoln University College (LUC), and founder of Soulera Academy.
Course TCI Objective
At the end of this Course, you should be able to:
– Understand the philosophy and definitions of Talent, Creativity & Innovation.
– Distinguish between Passion, Curiosity, Imagination, Thoughts, Idea, Creativity, Invention, Innovation.
– Assess the impact of Talent, Creativity & Innovation on society, human behavior, and business.
– Understand how Beauty plays a major role in Creativity & Innovation
– Identify the innovation issues and practices in mature organizations.
– Identify the internal and external sources of Talent, Creativity & Innovation.
– Identify Talent, Creativity & Innovation process.
– Discuss the behavior of innovators, how they change the rules of the game, and how they manage the pressure of innovation.
– Develop your skill at being creative and innovative.
– Describe techniques for stimulating innovation.
Course TCI Description
Course 4 (TCI) contain 15 Sessions as follow:
Session 1: Philosophy of Talent, Creativity & Innovation
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Session 2: Passion, Curiosity, Imagination, Thoughts, Idea, Creativity, Invention, Innovation
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Session 3: Levels and Patterns of Thinking
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Session 4: Creativity, Innovation and Beauty
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Session 5: Types of Innovation
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Session 6: Examples of Real Creativity & Innovation
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Session 7: Creativity, Innovation & Beauty in our Life
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Session 8: Creativity, Innovation & Beauty in Nature
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Session 9: Creativity, Innovation & Beauty in Science
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Session 10: Creativity, Innovation & Beauty in Management
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Session 11: From Ugly to Beautiful
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Session 12: Innovation
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Session 13: Creativity
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Session 14: Talent
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Session 15: Talent Management (TM)
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recommended talks
Do schools kill creativity?
Ken Robinson, 2006, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity
Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Where good ideas come from
Steven Johnson, 2010, TEDGlobal
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web.
The New Rules of Innovation
Carl Bass, 2012, TEDxBerkeley
Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk is the leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Formerly he was Autodesk’s chief operating officer, responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and product development. Earlier roles included CTO and EVP of product development.
Why innovation is all about people rather than bright ideas
Alexandre Janssen, 2015, TEDxFryslan
To realize changes within a company you need to find people that are passionate and believe in something, rather than focusing on generating bright ideas. Alexandre talks about: Why Innovation is all about people rather than bright ideas. To realize changes within a company you need to find people that are passionate and believe in something, rather than focusing on generating bright ideas.
Speed up Innovation with Design Thinking
Guido Stompff, 2016, TEDxVenlo
Innovation made simple, that is Guido’s passion. Elements of design thinking are the core of his idea. His anger became wonder. “I asked myself what makes design thinking so different. And above all what it might contribute to teams and companies. And even politics.” Together with the Technical University Delft he made movies of product development teams in the wild, and analyzed these with 7 researchers. They discovered how ideas arise in teams, captured the origins of innovation and revealed what designers contribute.”
Design Thinking -- Maximizing Your Students' Creative Talent
Co Barry, 2013, TEDxDenverTeachers
Design Thinking is a powerful approach to problem solving and supports schools in moving toward a more hands-and minds-on, challenge-based curriculum. Learn from Co ways that design thinking methodology can unleash student creativity and improve students’ ability to solve complex, real-world problems. Presented by Co Barry, Founder and CEO CreatEdu.
The art of innovation
Guy Kawasaki, 2017, TEDxBerkeley
Guy Kawasaki is a special advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
How to manage for collective creativity
Linda Hill, 2014, TEDxCambridge
https://www.ted.com/talks/linda_hill_how_to_manage_for_collective_creativity
What’s the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius,” has studied some of the world’s most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing — from everyone in the company, not just the designated “creatives.”
How diversity makes teams more innovative
Rocio Lorenzo, 2014, TED@BCG Milan
https://www.ted.com/talks/rocio_lorenzo_how_diversity_makes_teams_more_innovative
Are diverse companies really more innovative? Rocío Lorenzo and her team surveyed 171 companies to find out — and the answer was a clear yes. In a talk that will help you build a better, more robust company, Lorenzo dives into the data and explains how your company can start producing fresher, more creative ideas by treating diversity as a competitive advantage.
Creative thinking - how to get out of the box and generate ideas
Giovanni Corazza, 2017, TEDxRoma
Corazza is a full-time professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum at the University of Bologna, a member of the Executive Council, and the founder of the Marconi Institute of Creativity. He teaches science and the applications of creative thinking.
What is a Thought? How the Brain Creates New Ideas
Henning Beck, 2016, TEDxHHL
How does the human brain work and how is it different from computers? If you think this is too complex to explain in a few minutes, you will be surprised. In this energetic and insightful talk, neuro-scientist Dr. Henning Beck gives insights into thought processes and tells you how you can create new ideas.
Imagination: It’s Not What You Think. It’s How You Think
Charles Faulkner, 2017, TEDxIIT
Imagination is not what you think. It’s how you think. Cognitive research reveals that images, metaphors and stories are the basis of our mental operating system: the origin of our intuitions and our irrationality. Counterintuitively, more accurate insights do not come from increasing information or reason, but educating our imagination.
Expand Your Imagination Exponentially
Jeff Bollow, 2016, TEDxDocklands
Technology is advancing at an exponential pace. In this passionate talk, Jeff suggests that to survive the disruptive changes ahead, we need to expand our imagination exponentially, too. But how? By understanding the true purpose of ideas.
Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
Chip Kidd, 2012, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/chip_kidd_designing_books_is_no_laughing_matter_ok_it_is
Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In this deeply felt (and deeply hilarious) talk, he shares the art and the philosophy behind his cover designs. (This talk is from The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)
The art of first impressions — in design and life
Chip Kidd, 2015, TEDSalon NY
https://www.ted.com/talks/chip_kidd_the_art_of_first_impressions_in_design_and_life
Book designer Chip Kidd knows all too well how often we judge things by first appearances. In this hilarious, fast-paced talk, he explains the two techniques designers use to communicate instantly — clarity and mystery — and when, why and how they work. He celebrates beautiful, useful pieces of design, skewers less successful work, and shares the thinking behind some of his own iconic book covers.
Bring on the learning revolution
Ken Robinson, 2010, TED2010
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_learning_revolution
In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.
How to escape education's death valley
Ken Robinson, 2013, TED Talks Education
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
How to run a company with (almost) no rules
Ricardo Semler, 2014, TEDGlobal
https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_company_with_almost_no_rules
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to how workers report their vacation days (they don’t have to). It’s a vision that rewards the wisdom of workers, promotes work-life balance — and leads to some deep insight on what work, and life, is really all about. Bonus question: What if schools were like this too?
The surprising habits of original thinkers
Adam Grant, 2016, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
5 ways to lead in an era of constant change
Jim Hemerling, 2016, TED@BCG Paris
https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_hemerling_5_ways_to_lead_in_an_era_of_constant_change
Who says change needs to be hard? Organizational change expert Jim Hemerling thinks adapting your business in today’s constantly-evolving world can be invigorating instead of exhausting. He outlines five imperatives, centered around putting people first, for turning company reorganization into an empowering, energizing task for all.
Your elusive creative genius
Elizabeth Gilbert, 2009, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
Elizabeth Gilbert, 2014, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_creating
Elizabeth Gilbert was once an “unpublished diner waitress,” devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple — though hard — way to carry on, regardless of outcomes.
Igniting creativity to transform corporate culture
Catherine Courage, 2012, TEDxKyoto
Design leader Catherine Courage challenges us to drive innovation in the workplace by igniting our innate creativity from childhood.
Turning Frustration Into Innovation
Mark Shaw, 2016, TEDxKC
If invention is an alchemy that turns frustration into innovation, Mark Shaw is an expert with more than sixty patents and over 400 products to his name. In this talk Mark offers a simple template for turning everyday annoyances into products. Thirty years of experience in the designing, developing, sales and marketing of environmental products in the fields of spill containment, spill response, stormwater management, construction compliance, facility protection,bio-remediation (microbes), oil spill, radioactive waste management and nanotechnologies.
How To Come Up With Good Ideas
Mark Rober, 2015, TEDxYouth@ColumbiaSC
He started a wearable technology company called Digital Dudz that combined smartphones playing a video with clothing. Mark left NASA to grow the business for 2 years and after selling Digital Dudz to a company in the UK, he has recently decided to return to his Engineering roots.
Can you innovate within large organizations?
Joshua Mitro Lavra, 2016, TEDxPSU
Joshua talks about entrepreneurship within existing companies. Josh Lavra works in San Francisco as a product manager, design thinker, and maker. Since graduating from the Penn State College of Engineering in 2011, Josh has explored a number or roles and challenges across the US. Most recently, he developed and launched a self-service vending machine for industrial products in partnership with the world’s largest home improvement retailer. This experiment in intrapreneurship has led him to explore the question: is it possible to innovate within a large organization? (short answer: it depends.)
Where does creativity hide?
Amy Tan, 2008, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_tan_where_does_creativity_hide
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.
When ideas have sex
Matt Ridley, 2010, TEDGlobal
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex
At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It’s not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.
Fashion and creativity
Isaac Mizrahi, 2008, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/isaac_mizrahi_fashion_and_creativity
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi spins through a dizzying array of inspirations — from ’50s pinups to a fleeting glimpse of a woman on the street who makes him shout “Stop the cab!” Inside this rambling talk are real clues to living a happy, creative life.
On being wrong
Kathryn Schulz, 2011, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong
Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we’re wrong about that? “Wrongologist” Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
Tales of passion
Isabel Allende, 2007, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_tales_of_passion
Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism — and, of course, passion — in this talk.
How to live passionately—no matter your age
Isabel Allende, 2014, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/isabel_allende_how_to_live_passionately_no_matter_your_age
Author Isabel Allende is 71. Yes, she has a few wrinkles—but she has incredible perspective too. In this candid talk, meant for viewers of all ages, she talks about her fears as she gets older and shares how she plans to keep on living passionately.
The happy secret to better work
Shawn Achor, 2011, TEDxBloomington
https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work
We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.
The search for "aha!" moments
Matt Goldman, 2017, TED Salon
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_goldman_the_search_for_aha_moments
In 1988, Matt Goldman co-founded Blue Man Group, an off-Broadway production that became a sensation known for its humor, blue body paint and wild stunts. The show works on the premise that certain conditions can create “aha moments” — moments of surprise, learning and exuberance — frequent and intentional rather than random and occasional. Now Goldman is working to apply the lessons learned from Blue Man Group to education, creating Blue School, a school that balances academic mastery, creative thinking and self and social intelligence. “We need to cultivate safe and conducive conditions for new and innovative ideas to evolve and thrive,” Goldman says.
Let's teach for mastery — not test scores
Sal Khan, 2015, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_let_s_teach_for_mastery_not_test_scores
Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven’t always grasped the basics? Yes, it’s complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them master concepts at their own pace.
How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics
Liz Kleinrock, 2019, TED Salon
https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_kleinrock_how_to_teach_kids_to_talk_about_taboo_topics
When one of Liz Kleinrock’s fourth-grade students said the unthinkable at the start of a class on race, she knew it was far too important a teachable moment to miss. But where to start? Learn how Kleinrock teaches kids to discuss taboo topics without fear — because the best way to start solving social problems is to talk about them.
How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
Arunachalam Muruganantham, 2012, TED@Bangalore
https://www.ted.com/talks/arunachalam_muruganantham_how_i_started_a_sanitary_napkin_revolution#t-540099
When he realized his wife had to choose between buying family meals and buying her monthly “supplies,” Arunachalam Muruganantham vowed to help her solve the problem of the sanitary pad. His research got very very personal — and led him to a powerful business model.
Our approach to innovation is dead wrong
Diana Kander, 2014, TEDxKC
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In the past decade, we’ve seen an explosion in the number of business incubators, startup accelerators and entrepreneurial training programs. But Kander argues all of these programs share an enormous fatal flaw. Diana’s talk challenges our thinking about entrepreneurship and presents a new approach for startups and corporations alike.
What they don't tell you about entrepreneurship
Mark Leruste, 2017, TEDxCardiff
Starting your own business will solve everything that’s wrong about your job, your life and more importantly, about how you feel. Becoming an entrepreneur will give you more flexibility, more freedom, more joy, more recognition, more meaning and hopefully on the long run, more money. Right?. The reality of being an entrepreneur is much harder than most people are willing to open up about. In a culture where successful entrepreneurs are idealised like rock stars it’s easy to feel like we’re not good enough when comparing ourselves to the picture that’s painted by social media.
Design Thinking - MIT
MIT & Altitude, 2017
MIT partnered with Altitude to create a video to explain what Design Thinking is, it’s value to companies who want to innovate and the process behind it. Design Thinking is growing in popularity and yet acceptance is still shrouded in mystery. MIT recognizes the need for a video that brings the process to light. The “Mobilizer” is used as an example here to help assist the elderly to walk. The next iteration could be an IoT solution outfitted with sensors and more, but this depends on what the consumer needs. Design Thinking is about putting the consumer (or user) at the hub to uncover what the consumer truly needs – and not what a company wants a consumer to need.
3 ways good design makes you happy
Don Norman, 2003, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/don_norman_3_ways_good_design_makes_you_happy
In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.
Happiness by design
Stefan Sagmeister, 2004, TED
https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_happiness_by_design
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy — and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett, 2017, TEDxStanford
Executive director of Stanford’s design program at the d.School, Bill Burnett uses design thinking, a career’s worth of starting companies and coaching students, and a childhood spent drawing cars and airplanes under his Grandmother’s sewing machine to inform his work on how to design your life. In five eyebrow-raising findings, Burnett offers simple but life-changing advice on designing the life you want, whether you are contemplating college or retirement.
Recommended Scholars & Intellectual Thinkers
– Ken Robinson
– Yuval Noah Harari
– Everett Rogers
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
– Edward De Bono
– Jack Foster
– Steven Johnson
– Shelley Carson
– Elizabeth Gilbert
– Matt Ridley
i am pretty sure a lot of concepts and obvious things i used to know are completely changed now ! besides it is really possible for new methods to be taken in order to gain supreme mentality and an upper hand in life ! i enjoyed every second of it ..