Ch 12: Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties Introduction -Postclassical period saw a vital unification of Chinese civilization • Less fundamental changes occurred than in other places • Established orbit of influence; though isolated‚ was able to contribute to other areas -Era of political division and civil strife after breakdown of Han dynasty • Most advances of the Qin-Han era (221 BCE-220 CE) lost • Era of Division (220-589)-Nomadic
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Concepts of Creativity and Innovation Worksheet Concept Application of Concept in Scenario Citation of Concept in Reading Personal Experience in your Organization Three types of innovation: Incremental‚ Semi-Radical‚ And Radical. “Incremental innovation leads to small improvements to existing products and business processes… Radical innovation results in new products or services delivered in entirely new ways.” In the past five years Best Snacks has instituted incremental innovations that have
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The Zappos Way of Managing How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation‚ stellar customer service‚ and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut -- and one of the most blissed-out businesses in America. By Max Chafkin | May 1‚ 2009 "What would make you happier in your life?" Tony Hsieh asks me this question as we sit at a booth with half a dozen young people in one of those absurdly lavish lounges that can be found only in Las Vegas. It’s called Lavo‚ setting of recent
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it? I’ve been blown away by the whole thing. In fact‚ I’m leaving. (Laughter) There have been three themes‚ haven’t there‚ running through the conference‚ which are relevant to what I want to talk about. One is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity in all of the presentations that we’ve had and in all of the people here. Just the variety of it and the range of it. The second is that it’s put us in a place where we have no idea what’s going to happen‚ in terms of the future. No idea how this
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Why did Chinese farmers move from northern to southern China during the Tang and Song dynasties? Attacks and wars by tribes drove many farmers to move south. How did the raising of rice change over time and how did it influence China? New types of rice were brought to China and it matured in two months instead of five which allowed the farmers to grow surplus amounts of rice. What was the importance of the Grand Canal? The farmers were able to ship their rice across the Grand Canal and busy boat
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Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace “Identify and organisation that you consider to be innovative. Briefly describe the organisation you have chosen and its approach to innovation.” James Devine 213733 Word Count: 2‚649 ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary This report was to investigate how the Nokia Corporation has been innovative since it was originally founded as Nokia AB in 1865. This report also looks into what Nokia has done to be considered
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The Middle Ages‚ despite also being referred to as the Dark Ages‚ was a time of high creativity. The misconception that it was "dark" is most likely due to the two periods directly before‚ and after it‚ which had more advancement and focus on learning and education. This period of creativity would not last. A series of crises would strike the people of medieval Europe in a manner extremely similar to those foretold in the Bible‚ brought by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It was so similar in
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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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Ashley Merryman argue in the “Creativity Crisis” that the public’s creativity is decreasing and that it is important to try and start to increase the creativity in children. Creativity can be defined as the ability of a person to “think outside of the box” or to find an alternative way to see a problem. A class on creativity can not be created because people are born with creativity‚ it would hurt the school’s budget‚ and there is no way to measure a student’s creativity accurately. Just like people
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Critically analyse how creativity and creative learning can support children’s emotional‚ social‚ intellectual‚ communication and physical development. 4.2 How do you support other to develop their practice in promoting creativity and creative thinking? Creativity and creative learning are often areas where people feel that unless they have personally achieved a high level‚ they cannot work effectively with children. This can be true when working with older children but not the case when working with
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