Unboxed: find the reluctant geniuses in your midst
“People who believe in the power of talent tend not to fulfill their potential because they’re so concerned with looking smart and not making mistakes. But people who believe that talent can be developed are the ones who really push, stretch, confront their own mistakes and learn from them.” – Carol Dweck (Stanford Psychology professor, whose...
business acumen / business school / creative commons / creative entrepreneurship / Intellectual Property
Ideas are copyrightable. Right? Uh oh
Have you been feeling a bit sketchy about what you can do with other people’s work online, how to protect your own intellectual property, and how to make creative-wares using other artists’ works to enhance your own, without skidding into potentially dangerous infringement/piracy hazards, or shelling out $$$ in clearing the licenses to use them?...
Learn to sell your art, so you don’t have to sell your soul
And I use “art” very loosely here when I mean the creative products of your head and your hands and the tools you use to extend the reach of both. Whether writers, filmmakers, musicians, webdesigners, potters, poets, dancers, landscapers, crafters, carpenters, architects, hatters; whatever the avenue for the creative imperative to realise itself, these endeavours...
business school / digital citizenship / Featured / ogilvy digital marketing academy / open education
DIGITAL MARKETING GUIDEBOOK
This isn’t a textbook, it’s a guidebook to the digital territories for marketers, think travel-guide. Because frankly, we’re over the dull course-reader format. Those who come on our programs can dive into their alumni networks with links and videos and presentations, but it’s still handy to scribble on something during lectures or to follow along...
So you think you can change the world ..um, yes
No grand 10th century castle – you couldn’t get there on a steam train from secret King’s Cross platforms – but this seemingly unexceptional building at 9 Ntemi Piliso Street, downtown Johannesburg is brimming and buzzing with magic. The Defense against the Dark Arts is for real. Here they’re battling the very real forces of...
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