James L. Adams is professor emeritus at Stanford University, where he has held a variety of administrative posts, taught courses on design and creativity, and won many teaching awards. Trained as an engineer and artist, he has been employed as a design engineer by several companies, as well as consulting for and coaching groups in the private and public sector around the world....
James L. Adams is professor emeritus at Stanford University, where he has held a variety of administrative posts, taught courses on design and creativity, and won many teaching awards. Trained as an engineer and artist, he has been employed as a design engineer by several companies, as well as consulting for and coaching groups in the private and public sector around the world. He lives on the Stanford campus.
the fifth cultural block on our list is"Reason, logic, numbers, utility, practicality are good; feeling, intuition, qualitative judgement, pleasure are bad". (查看原文)
The present awesome progress in genetics and biochemistry (through a large amount of secondary creativity) rests upon the discovery of RNA and DNA and their functions and structures (primary creativity). (查看原文)
2006年9月4日的《新闻周刊》(Newsweek)上有一书评,评论Curtis R. Carson and William W. Wilmot的《创新》(Innovation)一书。这篇书评的开头很引入注目:为什么有的人一辈子只有一个主意就江郎才尽,为什么有的企业拿出一种产品后坐吃山空,被人超越呢? 比如一度红火的宝丽来...
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很多人都问:去哪里找创意?似乎他们认为创意是100%灵感与偶然的东西。其实不尽然,有很多激发从创意的techniques(小方法)。 在公共假日的下午略读了《创意人的思考》(Conceptual Blockbusting: A guide to better),因为是台湾版的竖排书,读得好辛苦。在这里分享下笔记...
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程序员的主要问题与其说是技术问题 ,还不如说是心理问题 :他不能解决问题 ,是因为他企图解决错误的问题 。问题的最终解决 ,是通过打破他的概念壁垒 ,进而去解决一个较简单的问题而实现的 。 J a m e s L . A d a m s所著的 C o n c e p t u e l B l o c k b u s t i n g一...
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You may start your journey towards being open-minded and innovative from reading this book, which was first published in 1974 and is now in its fourth edition. The book is about the processes by which one generates ideas and the mental blocks that impede th...
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还没人写过短评呢