Creativity and innovation: should you fold origami dinosaurs at work?

Creativity is important, yet an elusive concept. A former creative kid, I often felt like I had lost my creativity in corporate settings. Professor Teresa Amabile refers to this phenomenon in her 1998 classic article "How to kill creativity". She identified closed organizational cultures, employees' lack of process autonomy and resource scarcity from preventing "little c" and "mini c" creativity. But both "little c" everyday creativity and "mini c" creativity inherent to learning have to be rejuvenated to make an organization more innovative. Listen to my podcast if you want to know whether folding origami dinousaurs at work is the ultimate solution.