If you are inspired to improve your own creative thinking skills you need to check out our upcoming programs on Deliberate Creative Thinking and Parallel Thinking on April 23 in Sydney.  These are my two favourite programs and I will be running these personally, so this is your chance to see the programs that 1000s of others have already attended. 

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I am now following (and being followed by) The Business Voice - BVO.com on Twitter.  BVO is a relatively new and brilliant looking site with video interviews of world leaders.  High quality and wonderfully relevant, and I recommend you have a look right after you finish reading this blog. Read more

The gap -- the space between where we are and where we need to be. The gap -- where the energizing opportunities lie. The gap -- where innovative people, teams, and organizations live. The gap -- where applied creativity is the critical difference between success and failure.

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The Sunday Mail yesterday published an article title Ageing old problem – Rudd unveils solution to ‘greying population’, in which the Prime Minister says “We need to grow the economy faster by boosting the productivity of our economy.  That is the only solution forward for Australia.  In other words, producing more by making our workforce more productive.” Read more

Our friend Cyriel Kortleven from New Shoes Today in Belgium and The Netherlands is coming to Australia again in early 2010, and we have persuaded him to put on a couple of his unique workshops - A Spoonful of Sparkles and Time to NOW! Read more

The Brain Trust Charity hosted its Annual Dinner last night to announce this year's Brain of The Year Award.  We are particularly excited to advise that the winner is the originator of Lateral Thinking, renowned author and lecturer, and the recently-elected European Union Global Ambassador

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I just received the latest eLetter from MindGenius, and it had the great story below about a young Irish entrepreneur.  While MindGenius Mind Maps are not the most Brain Friendly, this is a great example of how Mind Read more

One of today's Tweets from Anthill Magazine featured a short article on creativity and innovation by our acquaintance Roger La Salle, former CEO of the Innovation Centre of Victoria (INNOVIC).  

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As many will know I have had the pleaseure of lecturing on Creativity & Innovation as part of Swinburne University's Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation program since 2000, initiallyin Israel and in the last six years in Melbourne as well.  As the end of the year approaches it is a always a time for reflection on what has been accomplished and the message from Alex Maritz below was a great one to receive.

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I just got an email forwarded from my University for our entrepreneurship students, but I think  it is worth sharing more widely.  Below is a note from Dr Marcus Powe at RMIT...

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