Independent Thinkers Need Not Apply
Creativity (Photo credit: Mediocre2010) An issue recently came up with regard to describing oneself as an “independent thinker” on one’s resumé. One of my contacts in Human Resources advised me that...
View ArticleThe New Groupthink: A Case Against the Call for Collaboration for the Sake of...
Introverts like myself heave a huge sigh of relief upon reading Susan Cain’s new book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. In the chapter titled, “When Collaboration Kills...
View ArticleBeing bored (and zoning out) at work can make us more creative?
English: A bored person (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Having written about the problem of boredom at work (where an individual’s skill level surpasses the challenge of the tasks), lets turn now to one of...
View ArticleIs Solo Creativity Really Dead?
Reblogged from The Artist's Road: Consider yourself lucky you're not my wife. Every morning she is forced to endure a rant from me about something I've read in that day's Washington Post. Sundays...
View ArticleIf Dining Environment Can Make Food Taste Bad, Can Work Environment Sour...
Hostile Work Environment (Photo credit: e_monk) What better way to illustrate how experience of a stimulus (held constant) is shaped by environmental factors than to examine how our experience of food...
View ArticleHere’s to the lazy ones. The slackers. The flaky. The unconscientious. The...
For those who aren’t aware, the title of this post is stylized after Apple Inc.’s “Think Different” (a/k/a “Crazy Ones”) advertising campaign quote. However, this isn’t a satirical piece but, instead,...
View ArticlePsychology of the Office Space [Infographic]
A look at the history of the office reveals that office space configurations have changed considerably over time. Naturally, different space configurations impact workers differently (and of course, at...
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