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Pondering creativity
Mike | January 21st, 2009The opposite of creativity is cynicism. — Esa Saarinen Everybody’s got it right? Plumbers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and office clerks – creativity surrounds us. But there is the everyday creativity of folks like those I just listed, and the extraordinary creativity of the great artists, thinkers, and inventors. In his book “Creativity,” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains the [...]
Professionalism Is Earned
Ross | September 22nd, 2008In 2006, Jason Fried of 37signals posted a short article to the Signal v. Noise blog titled “‘Professional’ is a buzzword”. Jason wrote: “It seems like it’s time to call a spade a spade: ‘Professional’ is a buzzword. It doesn’t mean anything anymore. Disagree? What does Professional mean to you?” Eighty-five comments were posted in response to [...]
The Measure Of A True Professional – Demo Conference
Ross | September 9th, 2008Yesterday, crowdSPRING was privileged to present and launch our new product – crowdSPRING Pro – at the Demo Conference in San Diego, California. Let me offer a few thoughts on why we were privileged to present at Demo: 1. Professional team. From the moment we received an initial call from the Demo team earlier this [...]
