...Case Study Creative Thinkers Bill Gates Bill Gates is well known for his drive for being fiercely competitive. Bills personality shows mental intensity, intelligence, endurance in adversity, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Mr. Gates always spoke about his future with no doubts he would be successful. His ability and passion for mathematics helped him find and see the shortest ways of solving many problems. Coming up with concepts and combining existing ones, Bill could form a complete characterization of a problem. Throughout most of his life, Gates when coming into a problem will work on it until it is resolved. Bill is not just a computer nerd, he has a sense of humor and loves a fun adventure. Acquiring a skill of encyclopedic knowledge, helps Bill touch on a wide variety of topics. Staying aware of both his limitations and strength’s, helps Bill to balance out his daily schedule. Having the rare ability to put his ego aside, he shows strength that people respect. One of his goals was to seek out people that are more intelligent than himself. With a combination of technical knowledge with natural managerial talent, Gates success is unstoppable. Bill enjoys programming and often will compete with employees to determine the best code. With his creative thinking, Bill could see the computer industry in the 1970s was about to accomplish a significant explosion. Bill chose the Microsoft motto, "We Set the Standard." The motto represented the power to either lead...
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...The creative and critical thinking involves the contributions of both the known and unknown thinkers. There are numerous contributors in various fields such as technology, philosophy, theology, mythology, science and art. The focus of this paper is on two creative thinkers in the fields of theology and art, James Hal Cane and Ai Weiwei. Both of them have made tremendous contributions to their specialized fields and have sort solutions to various problems in they identified. This paper covers their ideas/contributions, journey of creativity and how they impacted their fields of specialization. James Hal Cone is a theologian famously known for advocating for Black liberation theology. This kind of theology relates to the experience of African Americans, Black culture and history. It was to put Christianity in a context that would help African American people overcome oppression. He sought to deal with questions raised by African Americans in relation to the bible. He has also written a number of books including; Black Theology and Black Power (1969), and For My People: Black Theology and The Black Church. Currently, Hal is the Charter Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Ai Weiwei is a Chinese activist and contemporary artist. He is famous for his architectural projects, sculptural installations and his open criticism of the Chinese government. Ai also uses videos and photographs to express his art...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers PHL/458 Famous Creative Thinkers Steven Spielberg is one of the most influential and successful director, producer, innovator and writer of film in the 20th and, so far, the 21st centuries with countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name. His films have touched on primeval fears with the film Jaws (1975) or looked at the marvels of this world and beyond with childlike wonder in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and ET (1982). Other highlights of his career include the literary adaptations, The Color Purple (1985) and Empire of the Sun (1987), adventure films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), featuring the adventures of his daredevil hero, Indiana Jones. He tackled fantasy in versions of Peter Pan, Hook (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ("Biography.com", 2014). Spielberg’s Jewish upbringing and his lifelong interest in WW II has made for some impressive historical films such as the Holocaust drama Schindler's List (1993) about a businessman who helps save Jews from the Nazis. The highly praised film won seven Academy Awards, including Spielberg’s first win as Best Director. In 1998 his classic film of World War II as seen through the perspective of American soldiers in Europe, Saving Private Ryan (1998), earned him another Academy Award for Best Director. Other successful films, most notably Back to the Future (1985)...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers PHL/458 August 12, 2013 James Hal Cone and Cornel Ronald West are two individuals famous for using creative thinking to impact society and history. Hal Cone is a black theologian and Cornel West is a philosopher. This paper will focus on each individual’s unique contributions to society, ideas used to solve a specific issue, how the ideas were applied, personal and political background, creative thinking process, and a critique of their thoughts. From religion, oppression, educational segregation, and the Civil Rights movement, Hal Cone and Cornel West made a remarkable amount of progressive contributions to society. The contributions made by Hal Cone and Cornel West are often over-looked by today’s youth. Black American youth and young adults in particular have become somewhat distant form Black history because the way things appears in today’s society. What is overlooked, and should often be recapped is; without the endurance and dedication within the creative minds of these two creative thinkers, it’s possible that oppression and segregation would still remain a part of our society. Many Civil Rights leaders are responsible for the equality growth in our culture, and Hal Cone and Cornel West has been influential in ensuring Blacks continued to advance in America’s society. Both men contributed an important view to Civil Rights, and is known as leaders who changed the way...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation Doreen Carranza PHL/485 April 13, 2015 Noel Sherry Famous Creative Thinkers Presentation This paper will look into why Steven Spielberg and Shiego Shingo are considered creative thinkers in society today. They both have made names for themselves with their creativeness all over the world. One in the movie world and the other in the manufacturing world. These two men had visions they followed making a difference on the people surrounding them following their artistic, creative thinking and vision. Steven Spielberg is one of history's most influential Hollywood film directors, as well as a producer, writer, and movie mogul (Feldman, 2014). He has a reputation of being of the most successful figures in the film industry. Spielberg’s vision has brought us some of the most iconic moments in our recent pop culture history all the while pushing boundaries on style, special effects, and storytelling (Yates, 2015). He is considered a creative genius because of his creative pioneering in the film industry especially by covering very controversial topics (Bio, 2014). His idea to focus on melodramas is a tactic that focuses on young people and can be appreciated by both adults and children (McBride, 2011). All these factors, personal, social, and political environments have affected his creativity in his movies. Today he continues to amaze audiences worldwide with his films. Dr. Shingo Shigeo was perhaps the greatest contributor to modern...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers PHL 458 April 2, 2015 Famous Creative Thinkers Carl Sagan was known as an American Scientist and was born November 9, 1934 and died December 20, 1996. Carl Sagan was a pioneer in many countries scientific realm and is known throughout the world as the renowned astrophysicist of our known generation. He was also an achieved astronomer, cosmologist, astrobiologist, author, scientist, and writer. Dr. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and over 20 books during his lifetime. Dr. Sagan spent most of his professional career as a professor of astrology at Cornell University. Dr. Sagan grew up as a young boy in Brooklyn, NY in the early 40's. His mother was very religious and his father a Ukrainian immigrant who worked in a garment industry. Carl was an avid reader of science fiction and did not play sports. Carl Sagan was an avid science researcher, and many of his books and writings clashed with the religious groups. Carl often would talk about life on other planets or solar systems and how could Earth be the center of the Universe if we as a species had never experienced or seen other beings or worlds. The religious sect of society had their negative views of Dr. Sagan and fought to reduce funding of his program on PBS Known as "Cosmos". They eventually won these funding arguments, and the program was discontinued. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion...
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...Creative Thinker Case Study Case Study Creative Thinker Creative thinkers are vital to an elite pallet of business initiatives that change the scope of how commerce is thought of and engaged globally. The creative process of thinking involves looking at problems or situations from a fresh perspective that suggests unorthodox solutions (Business Dictionary, 2012). The purpose of creativity is to add value to a business, organization, or society for a thriving outcome. For this case study, Jack Dorsey is considered a subsequent innovative and creative up and coming leader behind the greatest American innovator of our time, Mr. Steve Jobs. Jack Dorsey was named in 2008 by Technology Review as one of the top innovators in the world under the age of 35 and considered a source of wonderment in the business world (Technology Review, 2008). Widely known for his conception of Twitter and invention of the Square, Dorsey is recognized as changing communication in social, business, and financial arenas. Twitter was created primarily to network online, build traffic to a company’s websites, promote brand forms from a personal or business aspect, and communicate in real-time (Tech Tips Salon, 2012). The concept of Twitter started off as an extension of social media and this marketing tool has evolved into a powerful business model. Mr. Dorsey creatively responded to the need to bring a tangible way for society to have access and communicate with entertainers, top level management...
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...Steve Wozniak was one of the most influential and creative thinkers of our time. He was the co-founder of Apple. Steve’s biggest contribution to society was that he designed the Apple II computer which was the “first commercially successful line of personal computers, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive.” (Bellis, n.d., para. 3). One major problem back at that time was that computers were extremely expensive so Steve had the idea of creating a computer that the average person could afford (American Masters PBS, 2014, 0:14). Steve had always been fascinated with electronics and this inspired him as a creative thinker. Before Steve created the Apple II, his first attempt at coming up with a solution was known as the Apple I. The Apple I was a printed circuit board that was sold. To implement this solution, Steve approached a local electronics shop named The Byte Shop and inquired if they would carry the product. They agreed and sold through all the product. In total, 200 of the Apple I was produced (http://oldcomputers.net/applei.html, 2013). After the success of the initial Apple I, this inspired Steve to evolve his invention into the Apple II. I believe that Steve’s personal and social environments played a large role in his creativity. Given that his father was an engineer, I bet that Steve was exposed to electronics and technology at an early age. While in high school, he was also president of the electronics...
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...The Burghers of Calais is a sculpture made by Auguste Rodin. This sculpture was made in the years of 1884-9 and is located in Calais, France. I believe that Rodin made his sculpture to be a sculpture in the round, which means that it is meant to be seen from all sides. The person viewing the work must walk or move around it to see the whole thing. There are four main ways to make a sculpture, which is carving, modeling, casting, and assembling. In this particular sculpture, Rodin used the casting method, I do not know what the original models were made out of but to mold it he used bronze. The history behind The Burghers of Calais is six top leaders surrendering themselves to be executed. Rodin was commissioned by the French city of Calais...
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...article Art, the definition of art is “the concept that any form of creativity should be valued for its own merits alone, rather than measured against some fixed set of criteria that is laid down by the art establishment.” The second article the definition of Art “expresses human imagination, not least when it engages with humanity's destiny.” An example of painting "The Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci the painting is an Image of a lady smiling because she is pregnant according to the article The Art Newspaper. This painting goes with the second definition of art because it expresses how Mona Lisa feels about being pregnant. An example of sculpture is by Auguste Rodin “The Thinker Statue” the purpose of The Thinker statue was to represent the artist as himself at the top of the door reflecting, The Thinker is a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. The sculpture is a man with a pose with hand to the chin, right elbow to the left knee, and crouching position. An example of Architecture is by Gregory Ain he is known for “Dunsmuir Flats, designed in 1937, brought in Neutra's influence in greater measure, but also displayed Ain's own ideas, limiting building costs while combining both privacy and exterior light.” An example of photography according to worlds famous photos is by Arthur Sasse, he took a photo of Albert Einstein is one of the most popular figures he is considered a genius because he created the Theory of Relativity, and challenged Newton’s...
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...Personalities come in all shapes and sizes. Everyone is different and unique in their own way. Personalities range from how you act with family to how you show yourself in your career. All different personalities all make up a workforce. In this paper we will be breaking down those personalities and presenting a plan that helps improve their relationship with their work and their team within their career. Individual Assessments Working individually or on a team requires you giving yourself to your work. Depending on your personality it can either help you in your career, or hinder you within your team. On my team I have 7 individuals who work together will very different styles of personalities. Within those personalities there are the thinkers, master-minders, producers, assessor, and the perfecter. When dealing with personalities that include wanting to be right, fear of losing individuality, not like authority, natural curiosity, and someone who likes to have control it can become difficult not only to address those personalities but also to combine them in a team atmosphere. Double space throughout in APA Master-minder The master-minder with the cautious style is more guarded, less indirect, is overly analytical. This can not only help the team by being analytical, but it can also cause conflict if the other personalities see the master-mind as a threat. Since the master-mind does seem to take some calculated risks it does seem that this individual will jump in at times...
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...Famous Creative Thinkers – Steven Spielberg and Pina Bausch PHL/458 August 4, 2014 Professor Leon Hallingquest Famous Creative Thinkers Famous thinkers all have things in common that help them accomplish greatness during their lives. Creative ideas are the foundation of the creative process. When creative individuals run across a problem that needs to be resolved - this is when they start coming up with their ideas. Problems can have a variety of options for resolution. This paper will cover how film mogul Steven Spielberg and dancer Pina Bausch used their own creative process to motivate people into seeing different issues their way. Famous Creative Thinkers In this paper specific problems and ideas that these individuals sought to solve, and the plans they put into action to resolve these problems will be discussed. Each person’s social, personal, or political environments will be reviewed on how they contributed to their creativity. Additionally, the creative process of each person, including obstacles they faced and a comparison of their creative processes underlying each individual’s work will be reviewed. Lastly, a critique of their ideas will be reviewed answering the questions if they could have done anything differently and if their bodies of work fit into the existing framework of understanding in their respective fields and how their work advanced further understanding in their respective fields. Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg has been a pivotal force...
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...book is to help you become a better writer, at a deeper level it invites you to become a certain type of person: a critical, intelligent thinker who instead of sitting passively on the sidelines, can participate in the debates and conservation of our world in an active and empowered way.” Although some people disagree with the ways...
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...Creativity and Innovation in Business Prof. Danny Araneta Cabulay Dean – Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines dcabulay@feu.edu.ph Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” For most people, creativity is more easily associated with art than business. But the highest art form is business because one can be very creative, dynamic and revolutionary. Creativity is also related to innovation and change. I am fully aware that many of the things we see around us are products of minds of geniuses, creative thinkers. It is hard to imagine a business without a creative mind. A creative mind is essential in any type of business. When we get tired of the old product or technology, as it also becomes obsolete, we long to have, a better product or technology. This is the essence of innovation. It has to be more convenient to customers. The etymology of the word “create” indicates to make something; while “creation” is something that shows skill, imagination or ability; and to be “creative” means the ability to invent, design or develop original ideas. Even in the simplest businesses, creativity can happen. In Manila, for example, a typical bakery would operate from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 pm. A bunch of students made a feasibility study to inject the idea of a 24-hour bakery. Hence, Pugon de Manila was born. This is an example of an incremental innovation to the traditional bakery. Likewise...
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...conversations skills and learning to talk to other students that may be outside their social circle develops important social skills. As students engage with increasingly complex texts, the need to talk about what they are learning increases. Text-based collaboration means that when students work in small groups, they should not simply discuss a topic, but interact with each other around a text. Teachers can scaffold the students’ interactions and monitor student comprehension through these types of lesson. By assigning a test to read as a small group and then discuss questions or ideas given to the group the students are working on comprehension skills and social skills at the same time. Pre-adolescent students are learning to become independent thinkers but still need some guidance to build their moral development. This can be taught through reading stories with values as the central theme of the story. A story is told with a lesson embedded in it. Typically, the stories show how to behave or how not to obey in situations where a decision has to be made. Often in these stories right behaviors actions are rewarded and, of course, wrong behaviors bring undesirable consequences. Stories have been used through fables and parables for years to teach right from wrong. This approach is most effective when the reader is provoked to think by the story and then through discussion and thought discovers the lesson embedded in the story. Stories offer opportunity for discussion and thinking, for questions...
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