Quote: Hugh Macleod on creativity
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.”
— From cartoonist Hugh Macleod, author of “Ignore Everybody“, one of Amazon’s Top 10 Editor’s Picks for Best Business Books of 2009.
“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.”
— From cartoonist Hugh Macleod, author of “Ignore Everybody“, one of Amazon’s Top 10 Editor’s Picks for Best Business Books of 2009.
CREATIVE ESPRESSO By Stephen Sammartino ************* ANT BYTES Something in the air The irrepressible imagination of regular Anthill contributor and rentoid.com founder Steve Sammartino has borne yet more fruit. Following on from his “Rentoid Rapper” effort last year – breakdancing in the street, pocketing $63 in tips and posting the video on YouTube to promote…
Holly Kershaw, 29, pursued her dream of “being paid to blow stuff up for a living” and she achieved just that when she got hired as the Education Director for Fizzics Education. Fizzics is a company that delivers engaging science programs to over 250,000 kids a year.
Kershaw is passionate about delivering quality science education to kids across Australia and internationally. Recognized for her efforts, in 2016, Holly won the Young Business Executive section of the Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence.
Assumptions – those nasty things that sit around in the back of your head and stop your thinking going anywhere interesting – are one of the biggest creativity killers in organisations of all sizes. Chances are, if you have a problem you are trying to crack, your assumptions or pre-conceived notions are boxing in your thinking. Set them free.
We’ve held on to this latest manic instalment of Steve Sammartino’s Creative Espresso series since he submitted it for inclusion in the July print edition, which didn’t eventuate. Here it is, in all its super-charged, creative glory.
Anthill is largely dedicated to the promotion of innovation, entrepreneurship and commercial creativity. Yet, every now and then, we see something that sits perhaps slightly outside the parameters of our usual fare. But we still must share it, for better or worse. Oh-yes. Today is one of those days.
In part one of this series, we began to incubate your idea, validated that customers actually existed, that they were willing to engage with numerous components of your business model and, that you have something that differentiates you from your competitors (i.e. your Competitive Advantage). We did this by testing your initial hypothesis about your…
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