Creative culture

SONY To experience the sheer joy that comes from the advancement, appHcation, and innovation of technology that benefits the general pubHc to elevate the Japanese culture and national status to be a pioneer...not following others, but doing the impossible, respecting and encouraging each individual s abiUty and creativity. 

If an organization is open to diversity of national culture, it can enhance its performance by recruiting the best people for any given job, irrespective of nationality. In addition, the diversity of perspectives, knowledge and opinions enhances overall creativity as well as insights into foreign markets. 

To punish Prometheus for his deceit and his fondness for humans, Zeus forbade men fire—a symbol of creative power, life force, and divine knowledge. But Prometheus would not let his children be 00) denied this greatest of gifts. He took a hollow reed, stole fire from Mount Olympus, and gave it to man. With this divine power, creativity, ingenuity, and culture flourished in the land of mortals. 

VK Fischapark was a former factory with extensive grounds. For me, it n/as something on a special scale, an extreme dimension, and as such, it reminded me of Russia in a positive way. The expanse of the fields, the endless, lonesome landscape at that time, and, again, that boundless cultural space - all this is sorely needed for the kind of imagination and free inspiration that stimulates creative processes. 

The strictly deterministic world vision of classical science led the philosophers (notably I. Kant) to introduce the notion of the two cultures, opposing the deterministic, cold, and rigid science to the humanistic domain of intuitions and unpredictable sentiments. IP and IS strongly state that classical science is dead and that the new science, metamorphosed by new Prigoginian vision of time, would allow, in the long term, a reunification of the two cultures. Indeed, Bergson s creative time is now inscribed into science. It manifests itself at the level of macroscopic thermodynamics through the bifurcations. 

GEN. 185. I. Prigogine, Creativity in the Sciences and the Humanities. A study in the relation between the two cultures, in The Creative Process, L. Gustafsson, S. Howard, and L. Niklasson, eds., Swedish Ministry of Education, Stockholm, 1993. 

The attempt to understand the frequently faced tediousness of substitution processes is firstly directed at individual actors, their motives and their opportunities for influence, and also at the way they utilise these opportunities or, rather, do not utilise them. The roles of these actors can then immediately be sub-divided into promoters and blockers, and an attempt will then be made to explain the success or failure of substitution as a consequence of a certain distribution of interests and powers. In fact, it always comes down to people who promote or block iimova-tions. This begins with the entrepreneurial personality as illustrated by Schumpeter, who performs its work of creative destruction , via entrepreneurs who are said to be indifferent to occupational health and safety, consumer protection or environmental protection, to cultural pessimists and luddites , who always aimed to impede one technology or another. 

Big pharma companies have to foster two opposite cultures at the same time, namely creative, intellectually intensive research a la Hollywood on one hand and capital-intensive lean production a la Detroit on the other hand. 

At the collective level, we believe that some cultural crises are the result of truncated consciousness. These crises might be overcome by rethinking, and ultimately removing, some of the prohibitions that currently constrict creative and innovative thought. 

Viewing the relationship between culture and psychopathology within an evolutionary framework, Hammer and Zubin (1966) also suggest some possible culturally adaptive functions of schizophrenia. They point out that the characteristics of the mentally ill occur in most people, and symptoms such as anxiety, guilt, shame, and depression are often harnessed to socially useful purposes. Similarly, Bowers and Freedman (1966) and Ludwig (1966) emphasize the healing function of schizophrenic states and consider them a major avenue of new knowledge and creative experience. 

This book is a broad and serious inquiry into this much-discussed topic. It will enlighten and surprise the uninitiated, as well as the frequent user. It includes first-hand reports of the nature of the experience recent scientific theories the use of psychedelics in primitive and non-western cultures and the sociology of drugs in our own society. There are also sections on the potential creative uses of psychedelics, from the enhancement of religious experience to the treatment of alcoholics and the design of mental hospitals. 

The tourist and resident collaborate in forging identities, assembled from bits and pieces of real and imagined cultural heritages. .. emphasis is on the creative and negotiated nature of culture as opposed to a given and static conception of it. (Salamone, 1997 313)... 

These views are closely aligned to a perspective offered by Daniel (1996), who records that dance as a medium of cultural expression is creative and mutually involving. The physicality of dance for the performer, and the tendency for the audience to get involved in the rhythms and spectacle, results in a form of concerted communication across any staging and supposed authenticity barriers. 

By allowing students to generate their own solution paths, it helps make them conscious, creative members of the culture of problem-... 

Since the organisation plays a crucial role in stimulating creativity and innovation it is important to understand the nature of organisations, especially their culture, before being able to understand why some are more receptive to creativity, innovation and hence change. 

Table B1 Role and influence of Cultures on Creativity and Innovation...

The role and influence of these various cultures on creativity and innovation are shown in Table Bl. 

Culture. If the company s culture is one that has historically valued and rewarded the creative individual, this will clearly be beneficial. 

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