Creativity (the Good Kind) Blog

Work and the Assault on the Dignity of Dreaming Maynard G. Krebs provided much comic relief on the old “Dobie Gillis” show in the late ’50s and early ’60s. As a beatnik, his signature catchphrase was “WORK!!!” — a self-mocking reference to an aversion to work of which the beat generation cohorts of Maynard’s ilk were […]

Disrupt Me, PLEASE! I have known the author Mike Maddock for over 15 years. Over that time, we have worked more that a few times on client innovation projects. I vividly recall my initial reaction in meeting him for the first time — I thought, “Who the heck is this guy in the room who […]

The portrait featured above is of Sid Parnes, flanked by fellow ICSC colleague Tony Billoni (L) and Gerard Puccio (R), Director of the International Center for Studies in Creativity (ICSC) at Buffalo State College. Sid Parnes was an early collaborator of Alex Osborn, executive at BBDO advertising in New York, founder of the Creative Education […]