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The Generative Blog

Oct 26, 2018
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by Carl Nordgren
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Becoming a Creative Genius (again): Great News for folks 60+

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.  Sophia Loren After a decades long career as an entrepreneur I have spent the past twenty years helping folks of all sorts—college students and entrepreneurs, creative professionals and military leaders, artists and parents and business managers—grow their creative capacities and develop their entrepreneurial instincts and behaviors. For the past ten years I have understood this work to be helping folks reclaim their natural born creative genius. It is only recently that I am coming to appreciate how and why it’s folks entering their 60’s...

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Mar 22, 2018
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by Carl Nordgren
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How I got Coach K to leave the locker room at half time of a Duke v UNC basketball game

In the late winter 1986 I was fortunate to be standing in the right spot when two events crossed and offered an opportunity to leverage the power of story for my company's business advantage. Our team of corporate backed entrepreneurs was approaching a half year since we launched Cellular One of the Triangle, the first cellular telephone company in Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill. (A quick historical note for those too young to know: cellular service was rolled out by the FCC as a local market business, with two licenses for each MSA. Our team, as Providence Journal Cellular, went on to build over 20 local cellular companies.) And over at Duke University in Durham Coach Mike Krzyzewski was in the middle of an extraordinary...

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Nov 07, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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‘Becoming a Creative Genius (again)’ Free Workshops coming to Asheville. 

  On December 4th I will lead two 90 minute workshops at the Mindspring Consulting facility in Asheville. We’ll have a lunch session at 12, and then do it again at 6 for your scheduling convenience. Each workshop is designed to help you grow your creative capacity and develop your entrepreneurial instincts, to help you on your way to restoring your natural born creative genius. We’ll have lots of active fun accomplishing that.   It’s exciting to put this on at Mindspring Consulting. The Leadership development programs Haydn and Terry Hasty have designed and offered over the years have consistently delivered extraordinary results for corporate and government clients nationally. Plus they have really cool space on the west side of town, co'located with...

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Nov 01, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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A simple hack to improve Blue Ocean strategy?

  Blue Ocean business strategies are directed towards the creation of a new market space that makes competitors irrelevant by creating new or significantly higher levels of value for customers, often while decreasing costs. It was introduced in 2005 by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their best-selling book, ‘Blue Ocean Strategy.’   I’ve been lucky. I never had to study Blue Ocean strategy; I got used to it, which is the best way to fully understand a complex and creative subject. Starting with my first employer back in 1966 and then throughout my business career most of the companies I worked for and all the ventures I helped launch were what the authors would call Blue Ocean businesses.   The first was...

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Jun 09, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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The easiest immediately effective creative hack, supported by research

I've shared this research with you time and again, but it's too important to let you forget. Researchers at the University of Munich found that staring at the color Green for 30 seconds dramatically improves subsequent creative performance.You'll find more information about the research on my site; there is a PDF of a creative green card for you to print out and keep close at hand--you'll find it by simply scrolling down on the home page at www.creativegenius.carlnordgren.com I stare at mine throughout the day. I also painted my office walls green.  ...

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Jun 04, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Remember your natural born Creative Genius, part 1

And please remember this always: When we were four 98% of us scored as creative genius on an assessment NASA had developed to identify the most innovative scientists and engineers.  http://creativegenius.carlnordgren.com/research/ Once upon a time, when we were four, we had a bias for action. Our bias for action was so powerful teachers and parents would often tell us to stop, to please stop, and sit still or come to the table or go to bed. Our bias for action was informed by our knowing—without knowing we knew?—that it was through our bias for action that we learned the most important stuff we had to learn. When we faced a new challenge or opportunity we didn’t stand there and figure out the best...

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May 23, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Political entrepreneurship? The next chapter in our story of greatness?

We live in extraordinary times. -We have the knowledge and the technology and resources to become the first nation that achieves a sustainable abundance for all our citizens even as we are buffeted by waves of crisis-like challenges. -But what makes these times even more remarkable is that the large majority of the American public is eager for radical change as evidenced by the number of passionate supporters of President Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders. -What these two men have in common is important: They are seen by their supporters as truth tellers who don’t rely on conventional political language or behavior. It is extremely rare for such a large majority of folks to be eager for new approaches to systemic problems. To...

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May 15, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Does common wealth generate our nation’s health?

Sorry for the cheap rhyme, my poet daughter just flinched…but it’s too true so I had to use it and it does what a good title can by helping orient you to what I am up to. I don’t mean commonwealth, a label used historically to designate a specific political entity and its assets. At our independence most of the founding 13 colonies chose to call themselves states. Three declared they were commonwealths—Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts; later when Kentucky split off from Virginia it retained its sense of self as a commonwealth—but historians and political scientists will tell you that today in the US there isn’t any difference of note between a state and a commonwealth. And once upon a time there...

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Mar 22, 2017
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by Carl Nordgren
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Creative value found in Humility

Relying on 30+ years of experiences as an entrepreneur followed by 14 years designing courses in creativity and entrepreneurship for Duke Students, I’ve identified 4 Generative Behaviors that serve our creative and entrepreneurial growth and performance most effectively. When you practice these four behaviors intentionally as you navigate your daily life they will help you steadily grow your creative capacity and develop your entrepreneurial instincts. And when you are focused on a creative or entrepreneurial project, applying these behaviors will improve your outcomes. Folks easily embrace Being Generous as Being Generative as one of the behaviors even before they learn that generous and generative come from the same Latin word generos, to produce. They have fun with Being Playful—it makes intuitive...

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