How to use your creativity to boost your career

By Christian

Are you creative at work? No, we’re not asking if you’re a dab hand at watercolours – we mean are you a creative thinker? Do you problem-solve easily and enjoy thinking laterally? If so, you could be boosting your career opportunities, and contributing to the success of your business.Companies that think and operate creatively tend to do better than those with little or no imagination – and the same is true of individuals. A creative take on a situation or a project can be a breath of fresh air, inspiring others to ‘think outside the box’. Creative people, therefore, hold a huge amount of power if they can exploit it to its full potential.

Source: How to use your creativity to boost your career. | Huxley

Bad news for active managers as government targets pension charges

By Christian

UK: The government’s war on fund charges could price out active managers from large chunks of the pension market, writes Natalie Kenway.Last year the UK government introduced a 0.75% cap on investment charges paid within auto-enrolment pension schemes, in a bid to divert up to £200m from the profits of pension providers into savers’ pension pots.The cap was introduced in April, when former Pensions Minister Steve Webb declared a war on “rip-off” fees.

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What Neuroscientists Now Know About Your Intelligence

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Richard Haier is President-Elect of the International Society for Intelligence Research and as of January 1, will be Editor in Chief of the journal, Intelligence. He is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, an expert on the use of brain imaging to study the neural basis of intelligence, and the author of the forthcoming book, The Neuroscience of Intelligence. His video course, The Intelligent Brain is avalaible through…

Source: What Neuroscientists Now Know About Your Intelligence | Psychology Today

The art of innovation; Guy Kawasaki

By Christian

Guy Kawasaki is a special advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

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