You have assembled a brilliant team. An engineer from Germany, a designer from Italy, a project manager from Sweden and an entrepreneur from India. The skills are sky-high, the ambitions are too high. You sit down in a room to be creative. Silence ensues. Someone says something cautiously, someone else […]
Monthly Archives: April 2026
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Imagine a meeting where everyone agrees that they will collaborate. There is a good atmosphere, everyone contributes, tasks are distributed and deadlines are set. The project moves forward and everything feels correct. And yet something strange happens. Once the result is ready, it feels like something we have already seen […]
Imagine that you have built the perfect system. Everything is optimized. No unnecessary steps, no redundant resources, no variations. Every part does exactly what it is supposed to do, in exactly the right way. It is efficient, neat and almost beautiful. And it breaks down immediately when something unexpected happens. […]
Imagine if creativity is really about taking things apart. Imagine sitting in a meeting where someone says, “We need to get more creative.” Everyone nods a bit seriously. Someone suggests a workshop. Someone else is talking about innovation. It will be big, almost festive. Then someone raises their hand and […]
Imagine that you are standing on a beach and picking up plastic. You fill a bag, then another. You feel good. You make a difference. Then you look out over the ocean and realize that what you’ve just done is roughly equivalent to a drop in a very large, very […]
Imagine if your company tried to get you not to buy their products. Imagine opening a magazine and seeing a full-page ad from a clothing company. The headline goes something like this: “Don’t buy this jacket.” You blink. Reading again. Is it a joke. Did someone make a mistake? No. The […]
Imagine if the internet had never been launched. Imagine that someone at a research center in the late 80s is sitting with an idea that could change the world. A system where documents can be linked together, shared and accessed from different computers. A kind of global web of information. […]
It is easy to get carried away by possibilities. New technology arouses curiosity. It opens doors to futures we can barely imagine. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, autonomous systems and space technology create a feeling that anything is possible. And that is precisely what makes innovation so attractive. But there is a […]
Few people know this, but light bulbs have a direct impact on our creative abilities. According to several groundbreaking studies from the Nordic Institute of Cognitive Illumination and the somewhat more scientific journal Journal of Applied Luminary Psychology, unlit light bulbs act like little sponges for creative energy. They slowly […]