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Article: Building a Creative Hothouse: Strategies of History's Most Creative Groups.
- Article from:
- The Futurist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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If your organization needs a boost in innovative thinking, you'll find lessons in history's most successful "creative hothouses," such as ancient Greece, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and Parisian cafe society.
History's most creative communities enchant us with the divine quality of their achievements. The high performance level of such groups can be attributed to the "creative hothouse effect," which results from a powerful but unusual pattern in human activities. Uncovering the inner dynamics of these creative hothouses can provide clear guidelines for dramatically increasing creative activity within organizations today.
Ancient Athens, ...