RR Week 4 – Creative Crisis! Due by midnight Friday of this week.
1. Watch and consider this video about creativity and business AND about the supposed “crisis” of creativity in the U. S. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/29/po-bronson-creativit/
2. Postulate and comment on why fewer students and young adults are creative now
than in years past. Also comment on how important you think innovation
is to business – should it be considered one of the most important
aspects of business? Why or why not? What are the benefits either way? BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR POST!!!!!
3. Extra information:
Po Bronson on the Crisis of Creativity in American Business
Here is an article that Po, Bronson wrote for Newsweek about this topic in case you want to read more.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html
Po Bronson on the Crisis of Creativity in American Business
Here is an article that Po, Bronson wrote for Newsweek about this topic in case you want to read more.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html
4. And more extra information: a blurb about Po Bronson from the video site:
Po Bronson is the author of two acclaimed novels, a book of short stories and four best-selling non-fiction books including his 2005 bestselling What Should I Do With My Life which was on the New York Times bestselling list for 10 months. Bronson's work is extremely varied. Not only has he written about Silicon Valley both in non-fiction (Nudist on the Late Shift) and fiction (The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest) , he has also authored bestselling analyses of family (Why Do I Love These People) and, with Ashley Merryman, of education and bringing up children (Nurture Shock). Now Bronson is writing about creativity itself. In a Newsweek cover story last month, Bronson and his co-author Merryman write about the crisis of creativity now affecting the American educational system. According to Bronson, the results of creativity tests for American kids has been falling since 1990 — a particularly worrying statistic for American business given that these test scores have been rising over the past twenty years in most other industrialized countries around the world. As Bronson told me when we met in San Francisco late last month, this creativity crisis may be the single most important issue facing the future of American business. –Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is the author of The Cult of the Amateur.
Po Bronson is the author of two acclaimed novels, a book of short stories and four best-selling non-fiction books including his 2005 bestselling What Should I Do With My Life which was on the New York Times bestselling list for 10 months. Bronson's work is extremely varied. Not only has he written about Silicon Valley both in non-fiction (Nudist on the Late Shift) and fiction (The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest) , he has also authored bestselling analyses of family (Why Do I Love These People) and, with Ashley Merryman, of education and bringing up children (Nurture Shock). Now Bronson is writing about creativity itself. In a Newsweek cover story last month, Bronson and his co-author Merryman write about the crisis of creativity now affecting the American educational system. According to Bronson, the results of creativity tests for American kids has been falling since 1990 — a particularly worrying statistic for American business given that these test scores have been rising over the past twenty years in most other industrialized countries around the world. As Bronson told me when we met in San Francisco late last month, this creativity crisis may be the single most important issue facing the future of American business. –Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is the author of The Cult of the Amateur.
PLEASE put your name on your post.
Due by midnight Friday this week – 2/1/13.
