New research shows that in-person encounters drive creativity. … Read More Creativity Needs Contact
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/creativity-needs-contact/
If you’ve read my books, you know that my answer is yes! The most innovative teams have something that I call group flow. It’s when a group is performing at its peak–realizing the maximum p...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/are-teams-more-creative-when-everyone-is-equal/
My niece Sarah was in CVS and, for some reading material, she bought the TIME special issue The Power of Personality. While reading it, she discovered that I’m quoted at length in the article �...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/the-creativity-code-in-time-magazine/
One of the most solid findings in innovation research is that creativity happens in social networks–what I call group genius. When it comes to innovation, a social network doesn’t mean Facebo...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/why-you-should-attend-this-years-conference-in-person/
Corporate retreats: Remember them? Off-site meetings where the entire company flies or drives to a cool location for a few days of team-building, networking, and fostering corporate culture. Ther...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2022/03/02/fun-off-site-retreats-are-back/
The creation of Christmas, the secular holiday, is a story of collaborative creativity. Christmas trees, giving gifts, Santa–all emerged from a distributed social process. It’s a story about ...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2021/12/25/the-collaborative-creation-of-christmas/
The research is pretty strong: People have better ideas when they interact with others. When people get together they often have collectively-owned ideas that no one person would have alone. This...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/the-serbian-hermit-who-prefers-to-be-alone/
Jony Ive, the legendary designer of the iPhone, is now designing Apple’s new Cupertino headquarters, known as Apple Park. He worked closely with Steve Jobs before his passing, and now with CEO ...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/creative-collaboration-at-apple-park/
I had a great time giving this morning’s keynote at the annual Montessori teacher’s conference (NAMTA). They invited me to talk about how to foster creativity and collaboration in high school...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/montessori-collaboration-and-creativity/
I just read some fascinating research by Marshall W. Van Alstyne in Harvard Business Review. The figure below shows a network of high collaboration on the left, and a network of much lower colla...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/create-collaboration-with-the-right-incentives/