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Because we are used to thinking that creativity begins and ends with the person, it is easy to miss the fact that the greatest spur to it may come from changes outside the individual.

The vision of a creative society was, and continues to be, amazingly popular, and one can clearly see why: it seems to reconcile innovation and growth with more holistic humane values. And the glue that holds these things together is none other than the concept of creativity itself. It allows people to lump engineers and avant-garde filmmakers into

Despite the waning of the Cold War and the Fordist order, creativity researchers have continued to be motivated by a fear that the institutions of modern society are hampering progress, and a faith that only through creative thinking can civilization be saved.

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

We can think more creatively if we open our minds to the many connected environments that make creativity possible.