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Tweet ]]>weblog@wendelberger.comCreativity2011-02-12T13:29:15+01:00http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/everybody_an_artist.php#unique-entry-id-58http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/everybody_an_artist.php#unique-entry-id-58“I am not a business man, I am an artist”, said Warren Buffett and legions of journalists, bloggers, academics and business people joined in the chorus and repeated him happily. This is nonsense, of course, not everyone who calls himself an artist is one. At no time in history, building an empire made you an architect, nor did signing treaties (or checks) make you a painter or draftsman. Warren Buffett is as much an artist as the rest of us are billionaires, unless he shows us some of his artistic creations. Why does a man like Warren Buffett claim to be something he clearly is not, rather than what he really is — a business man and one of the most successful ones on the planet? We can only make an educated guess here, but it seems what he meant to say was that there is some special quality in how he does business, something comparable to art, something maybe better described as creativity.]]>weblog@wendelberger.comExamplesDesign2010-11-28T12:38:39+01:00http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/talking_about_intercultural_differences.php#unique-entry-id-57http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/talking_about_intercultural_differences.php#unique-entry-id-57TED conferences are places for visionary people to meet and “share ideas that matter”. In November 2009, TED India took place in Mysore in the South of India. Devdutt Pattanaik and Derek Sivers presented their views on intercultural differences. Devdutt Pattanaik, Indian mythologist, author, and Chief Belief Officer with a corporation in Mumbai, talked about fundamental concepts, deeply rooted in culture and tradition. Derek Sivers, American musician, entrepreneur, minimalist and globetrotter, showed how misleading cultural biases can be. Easterner and Westerner both arrived at the same conclusion…]]>weblog@wendelberger.comNews2010-10-16T11:49:02+02:00http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/powerpoint_wars_colonel_under_fire.php#unique-entry-id-55http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/powerpoint_wars_colonel_under_fire.php#unique-entry-id-55When we coined the term PowerPoint Wars we thought of it as a cultural phenomenon, a period of transition from outdated paradigms to contemporary ways of preparing, designing, and delivering presentations in the media age. That this kind of “war” could claim real victims was beyond our imagination — until now. Back in August, Army Colonel Lawrence Sellin got fired by the International Security Assistance Force’s Joint Command in Afghanistan, 48 hours after United Press International published his polemics about the military’s excessive use of PowerPoint presentations.]]>weblog@wendelberger.comCreativityExamples2010-10-29T11:02:30+02:00http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/jim_henson_genius_at_work.php#unique-entry-id-54http://www.wendelberger.com/index_files/jim_henson_genius_at_work.php#unique-entry-id-54What makes a genius a genius? Today, superlative attributes such as genius, artist, or master, are so generously used that it seems almost impossible to recognize true ingenuity. We know about creativity, about Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi), and the Element (Ken Robinson). But, what does really happen when a masterpiece emerges, when something meaningful appears? In this 1969 Iowa Public Television broadcast we get a glimpse of that magical moment when Jim Henson explains about his puppets. It happens in plain sight: They come to life.]]>