Today, April 21st is celebrated as the “World Creativity and Innovation Day“. Do we really need a creativity and innovation day? Shouldn’t every day be about creativity and innovation? I think this is a discussion for another day. For now, lets stick with celebrating the day (recently, any excuse to celebrate is a good excuse, if we need one at all).
Here is a short video of how and why the UN announced April 21 as the World Creativity and Innovation Day.
Over the past decade, I have written many blog posts that talk about different perspectives on creativity, creative process and innovation.
Here are 21 blog posts from the archives of this blog that I think you might find useful:
Leadership and Creativity / Innovation:
Leading for Creativity and Innovation
Building a Culture of Innovation by Creating A Structure for Unstructured Innovation
Challenges around creativity / innovation
What’s Killing our Creativity?
Why Some Ideas Never Get Heard!
What stops Us from Creating Breakthrough Innovations
Ideas about how to be creative / innovate
6 Creative Ways to Solve Difficult Problems
Feeling Stuck When Solving a Complex Problem?
Innovation = Finding New Problems X New ways to solve problems
Innovations Result from Solving Interesting Problems with Unique Insights
Innovation and Boredom / Imagination
Will Artificial Creativity Trump Human Creativity?
Podcast episodes about creativity and Innovation
PBTO49: Our Bias Against Creativity and How to Overcome it with Jennifer Mueller
PBTO9: Myths of Creativity – In Conversation with David Burkus
PBTO12: Making Breakthrough Innovations Happen with @PorusMunshi
Conclusion:
Hope you pick the one’s that most resonate with you or that is most helpful.
Wishing you all a very happy “World Creativity & Innovation Day – 2022”
– Mukesh Gupta
