August 2011 Book Review Vygotsky and Creativity A Cultural-‐historical Approach to Play‚ Meaning Making‚ and the Arts By Paige Lunde Why have the arts all too often been neglected by leaders and scholars in our contemporary society? M. Cathrene Connery‚ Vera P. John-‐Steiner
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The Rules of Innovation by Clayton Christensen is a breakdown of important variables that affect the probability of success in innovation. In the past innovation was seen as random and unpredictable‚ but based off his article the probability of innovation is on the rise with the success of mastering his variables. He classifies the four variables as: 1) taking root in disruption‚ 2) the necessary scope to succeed‚ 3) leveraging the right capabilities and 4) disrupting competitors‚ not customers.
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK What is Strategic Management ? Strategic Management can be defined as the art and science of : • formulating‚ • implementing‚ and • evaluating competitive moves and business approaches that enable an organization to achieve its objectives. The Strategy-Making‚ Strategy-Executing Process Developing Developing A Strategic A Strategic vision vision Setting Objectives Crafting a Monitoring Strategy to Implementing developments‚ evaluating
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Frida Kahlo developed and used her creativity to relieve her physical and emotional anguish by painting self-portraits depicting her life. With a life full of tragedy‚ heartbreak‚ and immense struggle‚ she had very strong symbolism in her paintings. In her 1939 painting‚ Los Dos Fridas‚ Kahlo creates a painting displaying her emotions at that time in her life. Shortly before she painted this piece of artwork‚ she and her husband‚ Diego Rivera‚ had divorced therefore leading one to believe the symbolism
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CREATIVITY UNDER THE GUN AT LITMUS CORPORATION Case Analysis Executive Summary: The Hyatt team is working for a new potential business on a new product‚ lightweight and durable plastic tableware. The golden boy of the team‚ Miles Grady‚ is under pressure because of the approaching growth review of Litmus Corporation. Litmus Corporation is a global chemicals company that always evaluates new products and projects. Hyatt team is trying to finish at least the draft for the project‚ however Miles
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Given a chance‚ you are called to fill in the position of CHED/DepEd director. You are given a limited time frame of three (3) years to make an abrupt education innovation producing an outcome of quality education and develop high standard of educational leadership. How will you do this? If I will be given this chance‚ I will start equipping myself with the necessary skills for me to be able to handle such big task. I will consult people who have experiences that can contribute to my self – growth
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Bower & Christensen (1995) and Markides (2006) discuss several types of innovation: disruptive technologies‚ radical innovations and business model innovations. a) Please describe in your own words (but based on the articles) what the following concepts mean: (i) business model innovation‚ (ii) radical innovation‚ and (iii) disruptive technologies. b) Please explain how according to Markides (2006) business model innovation differs from disruptive technologies? c) Please consider the following
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How_to_Kill_Creativity_www.hbrreprints.org How to Kill Creativity by Teresa M. Amabile Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 How to Kill Creativity 12 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 98501 How to Kill Creativity The Idea in Brief If the mantra for the current
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Creativity: “Creativity is a process that results in a novel work that is accepted as useful‚ tenable or satisfying by a significant group of people at some point in time.” (Morris Stein 1974: 15) Stein‚ M. I. (1974). Stimulating Creativity. Volume 1. London: Academic Press. “Creativity is the production of novel and useful ideas in any domain.” (Teresa Amabile‚ 1996) Amabile‚ T‚ M. (1996). Creativity in Context. Oxford: Westview Press. • Novel – different in some way • Useful – serve a purpose
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interested in learning more about the kind of education that has fueled United States traditional strength in innovation and creativity. “The Chinese recognize that their students limited ability to question‚ solve problems‚ and innovate is a serious challenge; and they are working diligently to learn about the kinds of education that have supported the United States traditional strength in innovation” (Starko). She continues to say that the path to advancement in Chinese society has been through high scores
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