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December 13, 2018

How FourSight Transformed Team Collaboration at Estée Lauder

Global prestige beauty leaders The Estée Lauder Companies prides itself on having a worldwide reputation for quality and excellence, and has always been held up as a leader for best practice in collaboration.
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July 8, 2018

Understanding the Power and Origin of Ideas in Innovation

Ideas fuel innovation. No ideas? No innovation! But what are ideas exactly? In this interview we ask Gerard Puccio PhD, author of “Creative Leadership” and the “FourSight® Thinking Profile” and chair of the oldest Master of Science program in Creative Studies, to illuminate what ideas are and where they come from.
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June 13, 2018

Debunking Myths: Five Misconceptions about Creativity to Unlearn

In this insightful video, Sarah Thurber, the Managing Partner at FourSight, debunks five common myths and misconceptions about creativity that might be hindering your potential. She emphasizes that creativity is not a magical or spontaneous phenomenon, but a transformational process that involves connecting things in
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January 15, 2018

Boosting Innovation: Five Reasons to Flex Your Creative Muscle

#1. Creativity fuels innovation. Today, it’s hard to find an organization that doesn’t have “innovation” in its mission statement. Professor Felix Janszen stated, “After the age of efficiency in the 1950s and 1960s, quality in the 1970s and 1980s, and flexibility in the 1980s and 1990s, we now live in the age of
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September 21, 2016

Sheridan College's Journey: Making Creativity a Core Competency with FourSight

A decade into the 21st century,educational leaders at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada saw the writing on the wall. Technology was eating up routine jobs. The traditional curriculum couldn’t guarantee work. They knew that to make students employable, they would need to teach creative thinking and creative problem
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August 15, 2016

Fostering Creativity: The Smart Response to New Ideas

(hint: It isn’t criticism) Often our first instinct is to criticize new ideas. But there is a better approach and one that leads to more creative outcomes.
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July 2, 2016

Fostering Innovation: A Case Study of Rich Products

According to the Innovation Network, 88 percent of all organizations have the word “innovation” or “creativity” in their mission statements. But less than 5 percent of those same organizations have programs in place to teach innovation or creativity and make it part of the culture.
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June 2, 2016

Empowering Innovation at HP: How FourSight Training Transforms Management Approach

In training sessions, half a world apart, two innovation experts told the same story. Art Beckman and Silvi Steigerwald are two of the key architects of the innovation program in HP Software. Part of their job is training HP Software managers, more than a thousand worldwide, to support a culture of innovation.
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May 4, 2016

FourSight Goes to University | FourSight

Q&A with John Champlin, Human Resources Team at Wake Forest University How did you hear about FourSight? When I joined the HR staff at Wake Forest University, MBTI, Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder, and the Intercultural Development Inventory were the assessment tools we used for team and leadership development. After a
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