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The Problem With Creativity

If creativity is so widely considered critical to innovation and insight, why is it so mysterious?

Stowe Boyd
Jun 01, 2026
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For decades, business leaders have placed innovation as a top priority for business -- if not the top priority. However, they struggle to find people with the skills to innovate.

It hardly needs to be said that innovation requires creativity, transforming existing knowledge, ideas, or objects into something novel and interest…

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