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A New App To Find And Improve Your Local Playgrounds

National playground builder Kaboom's new app helps find and rate places for kids to play near you, to combat the nation's play deficit.READ»

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How Play Promotes Creativity at Work

In this excerpt from "Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People," author Edward M. Hallowell illustrates how the act of play can increase creative thinking at your job--using a few mind teasers and Monty Hall.READ»

Heads Up vs. Heads Down

Being "heads-down" on a project to reach a deadline is commonplace, but sometimes being "heads-up" is the path to reach true success.READ»

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David Rockwell's Imagination Playground

David Rockwell's Imagination Playground encourages creativity. Too bad it'll be just for kids.READ»

Play, Work, Lead

           There is a reason why 98% of two year olds consider themselves to be creative, and only 2% of twenty-five year olds hold onto that claim, and the reason is not their potential, but the external environment that ...READ»

You're not cool - I am. What is cool & finding the cool factor.

I'm a firm believer in the fact that every single one of us thinks that we are in fact "cool". I think, err, know, that I am cool because of the clothes that I wear, my long hair is cool, what I do is cool, how I do things, ...READ»