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A symposium at the just-wrapped-up annual convention of the American Psychological Association provided powerful tips for leaders on how to maximize organizational creativity. Leaders should be kept ...

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Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer. Wow, he thinks. Some ...