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If you're looking for a quick way to improve productivity for yourself as well as those around you, look no further than your inbox. Most of us take email for granted now, which is why there is an opportunity there to improve and optimize how you communicate

Most startups are not well led--that's the nature of most new business ventures, everyone is learning as they go along. But there are some common best practices to keep in mind, which I describe in this week's episode.

Arthur Ceria, founder and executive creative director of CreativeFeed, talks about how he creates brands for Chiquita, Sisley, and Microsoft--and himself. Advertisement: Strengthen Customer Relationships

McCann Romania uncovers buried national pride for ROM candy bars by wrapping them in the U.S. flag. You can’t impose patriotism

In this installment of DIY U, we dip into the world of Creative Commons-licensed open courseware and meet Pippa Buchanan, a DIY education rock star who built her education from just one blog post. She currently works for the Peer 2 Peer University , one of the most exciting and active experiments in online open education.

With the deadline for an important business-related opportunity looming, I began my day today with a sinking sensation in my heart and stomach. I have been tossing ideas around for well over a week now, and none of them stood out.

Hyper-growth companies often credit a culture of innovation as their primary driver of success. They deploy creative thinking to attack problems big and small

For the third year in a row we have put together a list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.

One goal of our 100 Most Creative People In Business package is to bring you closer to the creative processes driving business geniuses. And our newly released iPad app gets you closer than ever before

João Dornellas, a Portuguese art director who's worked for big-name ad agencies like McCann Erickson and Ogilvy & Mather (Portugal), decided that his portfolio wasn't standing out enough on LinkedIn or the creative equivalent, Behance . So, in what may be a trendsetting move, he transformed it into a free iPad app .

Netflix is reportedly spending more than $100 million to license an original series by David Fincher and Kevin Spacey called "House of Cards." So it's no surprise the deal was a focus for Netflix investors during the company's earnings call on Monday.

SimpleGeo has placed 20 million locations for "places" in the public domain to drive developers of location-based service apps. The thing is that data, combined with location-tracking smartphones, could spark unsavory uses too. In a direct challenge to Foursquare's effort to become the "Rosetta stone" for location-data on identifiable geo-located "places," SimpleGeo is trying to spark a revolution in location-based app writing by making the data for 20 million places available on its servers under the Creative Commons Zero license--essentially placing the data for free into the public domain.

Creativity is a sought-after commodity among employers and those seeking personal or professional fulfillment. It comes in handy not only while concocting works of art and literature but also in planning a corporate event or devising a new business strategy.

The "creative brain" behind Google Creative Lab, Ji Lee , announced today he will head to Facebook to become the social network's newest Creative Director. The unexpected announcement came this morning at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, N.Y., where Lee was a featured speaker for Creative Mornings, a "monthly breakfast lecture series of creative types" based in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Facebook's latest talent-grab from Google underscores a series of high-profile acquisitions from its biggest tech competitor.

With today's workplace dominated by creative workers, it has become important to know what qualities they admire. Are organizations embracing these values