is creative collaboration all it is cracked up to be?

We’ve all been there. The boardrooms with flip charts at the front of the room and candy on the table. The all-hands emergency meetings to come up with ideas to fix the latest mess. And of course, the off-sites in drab hotel ballrooms that are supposed to somehow spark creativity. But does it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/efforts-to-push-creative-collaboration-might-actually-clog-the-wheels/2011/10/31/gIQAlMCzqM_story.html

Explaining Creativity

Check out Keith Sawyer's web site. His new book 'Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration' is well worth a read.


http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~ksawyer/explainingcreativity/