Keith Sawyer and Sheena Iyengar share their creativity expertise on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival.… Read More Creativity at the Aspen Ideas Festival
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/creativity-at-the-aspen-ideas-festival/
New research shows that in-person encounters drive creativity. … Read More Creativity Needs Contact
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/creativity-needs-contact/
Success can lead to failure if you rely too much on your top performers. … Read More When Success Leads to Failure
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/when-success-leads-to-failure/
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/
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/
In 2007, my business book Group Genius was one of the first books about collaboration and innovation. Since 2007, a lot more books have been published on that topic, each one affirming the poin...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/group-genius-today-its-the-accepted-wisdom/
Here’s a wonderful new book, The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone. The authors, professors Philip Fernbach and Steven Sloman, argue that it’s “a misunderstanding of knowledge”...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/we-never-think-alone/
In my 2007 book Group Genius, I predicted that the organization of the future would drive innovation with collaboration. In the ten years since, this prediction has largely come true. Yesterday t...
Here’s the creative process behind the hit song by Martha and the Vandellas, “Dancing in the Street.” It’s a story of collaboration and of the zigzagging creative process, as reported to ...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/dancing-in-the-street/
There’s almost no research on group musical improvisation, and I’ve wondered about that for years. I’m a jazz pianist, and I’m fascinated by how different people can come together, and co...
https://keithsawyer.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/free-improvisation-in-music-groups/