Creativity was a topic capacious enough to apply to Great Men as well as elementary school children and rank-and-file engineers. Unlike genius, creativity could be said to exist in everyone, and in that sense was both more democratic and (more importantly, perhaps) more useful for managers overseeing scores or hundreds or thousands of employees. It

Carlin Flora, “Everyday Creativity,” Psychology Today, November 1, 2009.

Creativity is a natural force. It’s our culture that trains it out of us.