Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire wrote an interesting article for October 2008’s HBR titled “Creativity and the Role of the Leader.”
To answer the question, “How can organizations foster a culture of creativity?” they propose 6 guidelines. One of them is open the organization to diverse perspectives. When they discuss enhancing diversity, they state three [...]

Read in the Washington Post today how Iron Man (opens in theaters tonight) is accompanied by an infrastructure of products. Jen Chaney of the Washington Post writes,
Seriously, forget those stimulus checks: Through the power of subliminal suggestion, “Iron Man” could very well fire up the economy again, forcing consumers to buy cars and computers they [...]

I’ve been reading a bit more Antonio Gramsci (Marxist Theorist) and John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Although the two have two very different notions of reality, they seem to have the same macro-problem.
PROBLEM: Separation of Thought and Action.
FOR GRAMSCI:
Thought is the theory of contradictions in a society and action is the people’s actual consciousness. Because [...]