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The Information Design Model From a knowledge management or organizational learning perspective, creativity is a property of how information is distributed among people and within minds. Structural holes, hubs in webs, worm holes across great spans of nets, and other … Continue reading →

The Investing Model A rather cute commercialization of models of creativity is this investment model. People buy low and sell high at the core of this model (Robinson and Stern, 1997; Sternberg, 1995; Van de Ven, 2000). In other words, … Continue reading →

The Influence Model  Social psychologists tend to see creativity as simply one particular type of influence strategy (Davis, 1993; Frank, 1988; Barron et al, 1999; Ford and Gioia, 1995). It is influence by surprise, that is, by producing explosive disillusionment … Continue reading →

The Performance Model All creativity is performance before an audience of one’s field–the people, including peers, who judge contributions to a domain, in this model. As such, we can borrow what is known about performance elsewhere–singing, concerts, high performing teams, … Continue reading →

The Productivity Model A number of researchers have insisted that there are no extraordinary cognitive processes involved in great creativity (Klahr and Simon, 2001; Simonton, 1999). Creative people deploy ordinary cognitive processes, the same as we all use, but they … Continue reading →

The Subcreations Model It is striking when you interview creators how much they created before creating their main creative works. You see how they created certain styles of life, tools for work, schedules, associations of friends, samples of experiences that … Continue reading →