Creativity Challenge for Fast Foods:
Fast food is a concept whose origin can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th Century in reaction to the growing demands for food. Since then, the concept has developed to an extent that the modern society heavily relies on fast foods. Fast foods are well described through the term itself, which means that they are foods that can be cooked fast. The process of cooking these foods involves the use of cooking methods that enable the cook or chef to finish cooking within the shortest time possible. Fast foods have become a favorite choice of food for a huge number of people across the globe because of the advancements in the food process industry, delicious food, and lower costs.

Challenges or Problems Associated with Fast Foods:

As the concept of fast foods has become a common choice throughout the world, there are several challenges that…...

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Other neuroscientists instead stress processes: like macros for the brain.
Neuroscience, in elucidating specific brain structures for different thought processes and types of intelligence, can help scientists develop more sophisticated systems of artificial intelligence. Similarly, neuroscientists can possibly promote the development of pharmaceutical or natural interventions that aid cognitive processes like mathematical or musical ability. If neuroscientists can discover ways to increase conscious awareness of the structures of the brain involved in particular intelligences it may be possible to increase human intelligence on an individual if not a collective or evolutionary basis. Moreover, neuroscientists can use information about specific brain structures and possibly also hormones and brain chemicals to help people increase mathematical ability or overcome learning disabilities.

7. Programs designed to "think" in a specific way such as to play chess or poker cannot rightly be called creative. They exhibit human-like creativity but only directed at specific tasks. Beyond what…...

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1. University of Southern California. "Enhance Your Well-Being Through Creativity." Retrieved Aug 8, 2008 at  http://ucsfhr.ucsf.edu/index.php/assist/article/enhance-your-well-being-through-creativity/ 

2. "Friedrich Nietzsche and his philosophy of the Superman." Retrieved Aug 8, 2008 at  http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/nietzsche_philosophy.html 

3. "Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man." Museum of Science. Retrieved Aug 8, 208 at  http://www.mos.org/leonardo/bio.html 

4. Chamberlin, J. (1998). Reaching-flow? To optimize work and play. APA Online. Retrieved Aug 8, 2008 at http://www.apa.org/monitor/jul98/joy.html

In fact, much of art history itself views the scope of creative achievement based on the final products of the art as well, "The problem of process is one of the most difficult and risky issues that may face art historians. The scholar's normal inclination is to look at the conclusions of the creative process: at results, at completed acts, at works of art rather than the artists' work," (Seymour & Buonarroti: 89). Thus, creativity is portrayed as a product of both nature and the artist him or herself.
Yet, this product of nature is magnified to even higher possibilities through the process of the hard work involved in creating the creative product. Despite his natural talent, Michelangelo himself understood the important of putting in the necessary effort, pain, and sweat to create true masterpieces. He acknowledged the hard work he had to commit to his craft in order to…...

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Bunarroti, Michelangelo. (2006). The creative process. Mountain Eagle Marketing. Retrieved April 11, 2009 from http://www.mountaineagleweb.com/Creative/Creative.htm.

Henkes, Robert. (1997). Portraits of Famous American Women. McFarland.

Kincade, Thomas. (2004). Thomas Kinkade: painter of light. Art by Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light. Retrieved April 11, 2009 from  http://www.artbythomaskinkade.com/thomas_kinkade.html .

Nettle, Daniel. (2001) Strong Imagination: Madness Creativity and Human Nature. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

Creativity
New Product Concepts:

The mportance of Creativity

New product concepts are vital to the functioning of a successful enterprise. All businesses must, no matter what field they are in, innovate at some point, and this often utilizes creativity. For this reason, there are many advertisements and marketing strategies that will enable a consumer to both know and want the "new product." For instance, Nicholas Graham introduced colorful designs on boxer shorts. This was both innovative and creative at a time when nobody saw these shorts except for the men who wore them and perhaps their views, both of who did not much care about how they looked. These designs, however, were very popular and have brought great revenue to the companies that have utilized them, further stressing the need for innovation and creativity explored above. This paper will therefore comment on the importance and necessity of new product concepts in light of…...

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Creativity may be highly individual, dependent on a person's genetic and psychological makeup. The family and socio-cultural environment might also play a role into how a person's creativity develops. For example, some cultures may actively encourage creativity by valuing individuality. Creative expression could be linked to emotional expression. A person whose parents were artists, musicians, or writers might encourage children to express themselves in similar ways.

Synthesizing ideas that already exist is the essence of creativity. arely do creative ideas take place in the absence of some stimulating concept. A triggering word, sound, or visual image can induce a novel concept. That concept may lead to something productive, such as an idea for a new engine for a car. Therefore, creativity becomes meaningful when an idea is expressed in practical ways. An artist eventually paints or sculpts; a writer eventually designs a story, and an engineer a building. Other forms of…...

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Balzac, F. (2006). Exploring the brain's role in creativity. NeuroPsychiatry 7(5). Retrieved April 25, 2009 from http://www.neuropsychiatryreviews.com/may06/einstein.html

McCook, A. (2002). Creative Mind Shares Traits with Mentally Ill. National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Retrieved April 25, 2009 from  http://www.namiscc.org/Research/2002/Creativity.htm

The author's study developed measures through which creativity can be determined; this was a process that was not thoroughly strengthened in Stokols et. al.'s study. Operationally defining the creativity variable would enable the authors to at least make a strong claim that what they were actually measuring is creativity in the workplace, rather than just personal stress and/or job satisfaction. Because of the poor operationalization on the expected outcome variable creativity in the workplace, the study could not definitely say that indeed, the social and physical environments of an employee's workplace is significantly related to creative thinking in the workplace.
More salient than the operationalization problem in the study was also the question of representativeness of the study to employees and organizations in general. A study on creativity in the workplace aims to provide insights on how working conditions -- socially or physically -- help promote or actually deter creative…...

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Amabile, T. (1995). "Work environment differences between high and low creative projects." Paper presented at the Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity Symposium at the Meeting of the Academy of Management. Vancouver, British Columbia.

Schepers, P. And P. Van den Berg. (2007). "Social factors of work: environment creativity." Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 3.

Stokols, D., C. Clitheroe, and M. Zmuidzinas. (2002). "Qualities of work environments that promote perceived support for creativity." Creativity Research Journal, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Studies have indicated that those who are creative and significantly well thought, of often have issues with depression, alcoholism or drug use.

The model created guidelines that illustrated commonalities among elite creative people to include:

receive support for developing those qualities from parents, who often have creative or aesthetic bents as well as emotional difficulties of their own;

harbor an ingrained contrariness and opposition to established beliefs, which frequently antagonizes other people;

face physical trials early in life, often a life-threatening illness or physical disability;

experience a restless, driven state of psychological unease that finds relief through creative problem solving (Bower, 1995)."

In studying the closeness between creativity and madness, one should investigate the life and beliefs of famed artists Michelangelo Buonarroti. At one point in his life he was asked how he came to sculpt one of his most famous and well-known works of art and he replied:

saw the angel in the marble and carved…...

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Bower, Bruce (1995) Moods and the muse: a new study reappraises the link between creativity and mental illness.(Cover Story) Science News

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 http://www.neuroticpoets.com/dickinson/ 

Taylor-Whiffen, Peter (2005) Open Eye: Imagine if we opened our minds; Why do so many psychologists shy away from research into the power of imagination?(Features)

After about a week, I fell back into my regular routine of writing everyday; something, even if it was just a page. I realized that I was not writing for others, but that I was writing for myself. Not to write would have resulted in all these characters and storylines piling up inside my mind, and who knows what that might have led to; maybe irregularity.
A didn't send off any more stories, but I have saved all of them. There are characters sealed into the CD discs that line my writer's drawer. They're there, and sometimes I go back to them and I edit.

A recently read somewhere about a famous author who said that he spent a year or more editing his work.

That made sense to me.

A no longer feel "rejected." Writing is not something I do because I am motivated by fame or money. I write because my…...

Looking at Creativity The main purpose of these chapters is to show what creativity is and how it can often be confused for other things—like backwardness, malevolence, or even stupidity. The author uses the example of Thomas Edison as a boy and the mischief he would get up to and thus makes the point that creativity sometimes comes out in different ways and one should not be quick to judge it negatively.
The key question the author is addressing is what constitutes the creative mind? The author looks at the various qualities of the creative person, creative personality traits and the theories used over time to explain them, such as Freud’s theory or Adler’s theory; the mental processes that go along with creative expression, and how the creative output is judged according to different theoretical models. Essentially the author is asking how should one understand the creative mind?
The most important information in…...

One wrong decision can destroy years of hard work and requires years to recover. Failures to innovate come in two forms: failures of imagination and failures to execute (Govindarajan and Trimble 2010). With certainty, investors want growth, growth, and more growth. To achieve this, Apple strives to infuse creative thinking in its innovations, and it must deliver products and services fast enough or risk losing market share.
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Steve Jobs made a point to groom and posture his staff with capable individuals ready and able to step in when needed. Steve Jobs was very demanding; he viewed himself as responsible for making his staff better. He saw himself as pushing people to come up with "…more aggressive visions of how it could be" (Morris 2008, p 5).

With over 25,000 employees at Apple, Steve worked with the top 100: some executives and some individual contributors. He envisioned his role as moving around…...

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Andriopoulos, C & Dawson, P 2009, Managing change, creativity and innovation, Sage Publications, London.

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Teaching Creativity
Whether creativity can be taught has been a point of contention for a number of years. Some believe that creativity is just like anything else, and it can absolutely be taught by the right person, to someone who is receptive to learning (Florida, 47). However, creativity is not like math or science. It is not a finite subject or concept, with rules and guidelines that can be imparted in the minds of other people. Because of that, creativity cannot actually be taught. Creativity is inspired by thoughts and ideas in the minds of the person, and those are not things that can be taught by other people (Balzac, 19). There are skills that can be acquired that can help a person become more creative, but these do not teach creativity itself. Instead, they teach a person different ways to think about things, which can help that person focus on…...

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References

Balzac, Fred. "Exploring the Brain's Role in Creativity." NeuroPsychiatry Reviews, 7(5): 1, 19 -- 20. 2006. Print.

Florida, R. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. NY: Basic Books. 2002. Print.

Noonan, Nancy. "Learn the lessons of creativity from the master artists." Women in Higher Education, pp. 30-31. 2007. Print.

These are the attributes that must be written about, researched, sought for, and retained. "Brainstorming" should not be the focus; implementation should be the key. The bottom line of business is to make money, and to do that it must get things done not to engage in endless 'brainstorming'.
Creative ideas need vigorous and systematic carefully detailed plans and proposals for following through. Very few of these 'creative types', according to Levitt, have the patience and oomph for this. It does not sustain their interest. Creative types are irresponsible and, therefore, responsibility for creating and implementing innovative ideas should be transferred to the so-called conformist type.

Four factors are needed for an idea to work:

1. ank -- downward idea (i.e. Those emenatign from the upper hierarchy down) are more likely to work since they are accompanied by power. If one wishes for a reverse success, the idea had better be reinforced…...

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Branson, R. (2008). Business stripped bare: adventures of a global entrepreneur. London: Virgin Books

Cherrington, D.J. (1994). Organizational Behavior. USA: Alleyn & Bacon

Levitt, T. (2002). Creativity is not enough. Harvard Business Review, 137-145

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A team member was to hide behind the sheet and grab at or scare people as they walked by. This was extremely effective because the sheet looked like the wall and nobody expected anything to come from behind the wall.
We decided to have a table of gross things in our hall of horrors, which consisted of the typical peeled grapes, spaghetti, and squishy Jell-O. Underneath the tables team members would grab at the legs of people as they made their way through the hall of horrors. This was also very effective because no one thought to look underneath the tables.

It took days to get the sheets cut and pieced. Then we had to find tables. We also had to come up with the ideas for what we were going to put on the tables. Everyone on the team had a specific project. Someone had to make sure all food…...

DIETETIC Management PACTICES: Creativity
Sara Parker is a manager at a camp for children overcoming cystic fibrosis. She manages a staff of 20 seasonal employees during the summer for a period of approximately four months. ecently, the camp has realized a shortage in qualified staff capable of working providing nutritional guidelines and creative menu plans for children who suffer from CS. The regional manager of program has told Sara that without an adequate staff, more pressure will be placed on the counselors that are currently working with the organization to develop creative ways to incorporate a healthy diet and encourage students to eat more fiber and energy dense foods, which studies show may help children with CF (Gavin, 2002).

The additional work load would require that current staff members work directly with students to create a new menu plan that was easily followed, and overtime hours will be required. In addition, recent…...

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Duff, A.J. (2002). "Psychological Components of Eating Difficulties in Young Children

with CF: A Case Study." St. James Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, Available: http://www.shsweb.co.uk/cf/09.html

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Innovation in an Organization Is Easier Said Than Done
Creativity and innovation are considered the sources of the competitive advantages for a company, as Higgins (1996, p. 374) predicted that managing innovation would become the most important organizational task of the future. Therefore, presently, the management attention has focused primarily on how organizations generate creative ideas and carry out innovation projects successfully.

However, majority of managers are finding that creativity and innovation in an organization is easier than said. They are finding that in practice the creative ideas and new development activities fail to achieve their anticipated level of success and some of these projects actually end into failure (Belbin, 1981, p. 31). Therefore, the question arises what are the main factors that contribute to the failure of creativity and innovation in the companies.

The paper looks at some of these issues, including management roles, team management, and internal and external organizational…...

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Alder, H. (1993), The Right Brain Manager, Piatkus, London.

Anderson, N., Hardy, G. And West, M. (1992), "Management team innovation," Management Decision, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 17-21.

Belbin, R.M. (1981), Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail, Heinemann, London.

Cleland, David I. (1996), Strategic Management of Teams, John Wiley & Sons, Danvers, MA.

Intelligence assessment involves the identification, measurement, and evaluation of an individual's cognitive abilities. This process helps to understand an individual's intellectual potential and functioning. Here's a properly spaced format for assessing intelligence:

1. Gathering background information:
- Obtain personal information, such as age, education, and cultural background.
- Collect relevant medical history or developmental milestones.

2. Administering standardized intelligence tests:
- Select appropriate tests, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) or Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales.
- Ensure that the testing environment is quiet and free from distractions.
- Explain the test instructions to the individual and answer any questions.
- Administer....

Title: Should Schools Have a Gender-Neutral Dress Code?

Introduction:
A school's dress code plays a significant role in maintaining a conducive learning environment and instilling discipline among students. However, the need to address gender disparities and promote inclusivity has sparked a discourse around the idea of implementing a gender-neutral dress code. In this essay, we will explore the benefits and potential challenges of adopting such a dress code policy.

Body:

I. Promoting Equality and Inclusivity
A. A gender-neutral dress code eliminates gender-based dress expectations.
1. Students can freely express their individuality without conforming to traditional gender norms.
2. It reduces the stigma faced by....

The government can play a crucial role in supporting schools in rural areas by implementing various measures. Here are some ways in which the government can help:

1. Infrastructure development: The government can provide funds for the construction and renovation of school buildings, classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other essential facilities. This will ensure that rural schools have adequate physical infrastructure to provide quality education.

2. Technology integration: The government can facilitate the integration of technology in rural schools by providing funds for the purchase of computers, projectors, internet connectivity, and other necessary equipment. This will enhance the teaching and learning experience for....

Graffiti should be protected for several reasons:

1. Artistic expression: Graffiti is a form of art that allows individuals to express their creativity and communicate messages visually. It provides a platform for artists to showcase their talent and perspective.

2. Cultural significance: Graffiti often reflects the cultural identity and vibrant spirit of a community or neighborhood. It can convey unique stories, experiences, and beliefs of a particular group of people, preserving their history and heritage.

3. Social commentary: Graffiti serves as a powerful tool for social commentary, enabling artists to raise awareness about various issues such as social injustice, environmental concerns, or political....