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Creative Creatures – Renzo Piano The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, formerly London Bridge Tower, is a unique 95-story skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, [...]

Creative Creatures – Vivienne Westwood Dame Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer, was born in 1941. In 1965, she met and moved in with Malcolm McLaren who would become the future manager of [...]

Creative Creatures – Heston Blumenthal In Victorian times, turtle soup was apparently all the rage. It was prepared from turtle meat imported from the Orient, it was very expensive and it was [...]

Creative Creatures – Brian Eno In the following series of articles, I want to explore creativity through the perspectives of different individuals from completely different walks of life. I will [...]

We are only human. Because we are only human we don’t always behave in a way which is appropriate. Not only is this true in our social lives, but it is also true in the world of business. ‘Bad’ [...]

So, you have arranged an idea generation session involving 12 people who come from different parts of the company. It has been a real challenge trying to coordinate diaries. Three people have [...]

When I kick-started my career with Unilever as a marketing trainee, I was fortunate to receive the benefits of an extensive training programme. This included a number of two-week residential [...]

If you wanted to walk all the way from London to Warsaw, a scenic route would take you across a number of different countries, including France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, before [...]

Room B436 has been booked out on the third floor. It’s window-less and has bright fluorescent lighting. A white rectangular formica table sits in the middle of the room and there are six black [...]

The challenge is that many managers, even those in creative roles, are logical by nature. They are the left brainers. In their minds, creativity is a special gift belonging to the few crazy ones, [...]