1rst Assignment - " A crash course on creativity" Stanford University online class Team 11914 - October, 23rd 2012 - By Frédérique Delage .

1. A Crash Course on Creativity
Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
1rst Assignment - October,23rd 2012 - Made by Frédérique Delage
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2. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
It all started with that impersonal - but useful ! - list...
Our unique common point by that time : we were classmates in the same
team, all interested in creativity.
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3. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
1. First Introduction
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4. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
1.1. Emailing the others individually using Venture Lab Mailbox
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5. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
1.2. Common email sent to private mailboxes
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6. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
1.3. 2nd emailing to those who hadn't answered yet
● With the answers we got, at that point we acknowledged that our team
would consist in 3 active members, Frédérique, Aditya and Demian.
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1.4. Social Networks to superficially know each other
● As Demian wrote in our email exchanges, "When you don't know
somebody, social networks are a quick, useful and efficient way to know
him /her. But it is superficial. "
● This superficiality is the main limit of social networks : the news they
contain are only the ones that their users want the others to know.
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8. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
2. Getting to know each other better
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9. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
2.1. Brief individual ''homework'' in 3 points
● With a team consisting of three people from different countries (USA,
Argentina, France), continents and time zones, the most efficient way to
get time was to consider 3 basic lists individually and gather results to find
out common points.
A. Things that we can have in common (in a group)
B. Things that we all have in common (as a human being)
C. 10 Things that we guess that we have in common (now that we got
acquainted thanks to social networks and short email presentations)
● The 3 next slides gather the points we chose to show because they
represent the best of that step.
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10. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
2.2. A. Things that we can have in common (results)
● Age ● Goals
● Nationality / Current city ● Knowledge
● School / Studies ● Family / Relatives / Friends
● Values ● Interests
● Ideas ● Passions
● Religion ● Work / Colleagues
● Political convictions ● Ways of life
● Feelings ● Material / Tools
● Historical / Past events
● Events we attended, lived live or on TV
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2.2. B. Things that we all have in common (results)
● Life / Death
● Capability to create, think, feel, believe, vote and act
● Life Ups & Downs
● Social life : family, friends, virtual life
● Earth & the environment
● World Human Patromony and what they evoke to us (Pyramids, Eiffel
Tower, Statue of Liberty, Machu Picchu...)
● Communication tools : The Internet, phones, letters
● Aspirations, dreams
● Access to culture : museums, music, movies, books...
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12. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
2.2. C. 10 Things that we guess that we have in common (results)
● We are from the Generation Y (in our 20's).
● We traveled & studied abroad (and still have friends there).
● We were young on 9/11 and it changed our vision of the world too.
● We grew up with computers and cellphones in our hands.
● English is our common language.
● We follow the US Presidential Elections.
● We have postcards in our flats from at least 10 different cities.
● We have already faced death of relatives or friends.
● We have the same cultural, generational references. ''What else ?" is
linked to coffee, Dever is the name of a US city AND a green dinosaur, we
know where trains go in platform 9 3/4.
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We regularly eat French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, US food.
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13. Team 11914 : 5 days to get acquainted
3. Going further...
What we really have in common
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3.1. We grew up with...
● We played
● Our dream life melted...
● We wanted as dog, Beethoven, an orqua ,Willy and a dinosaur, Denver.
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3.2. We know...
● Who they are - whether we like them or not -
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3.2. We know...
● Where it is...
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3.3. Inspiration...
● We like
Technology, life, travels, seashores, blue sky, smiles
● We believe in
Innovation, creation, out-of-the-box, peace, open-mindness, respect
● We "stay hungry, stay foolish"
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3.4. Daily life
● We regularly eat and drink
Chinese nems, French bread, Indian lassi, Italian pizza, Japanese
sushi, Hamburgers and tropical fruits.
● We all have & use everyday
Cellphones, laptop, bus, pens, mugs, wallet, FB, bottle of water
● We know those brands
Coca Cola, Evian, McDonalds, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Apple,
Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Disney, L'Oreal, BBC, Visa, Bic, Lipton,
Abercombie&Fitch, H&M, Ikea.
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3.5. Culture
● We've watched them
● We know those paintings
● We already did...
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To sum up...
● Being part of such an international team, we learnt that we have more
in common than we had expected : values, ways of life, cultural
references, goals.
● It was challenging to think that we would know people who were
strangers 5 days ago. Different time zones, personal motivation &
schedules required us to be creative regarding the team organization.
● No matter where we live, come from, study, work or what we believe;
open-mindness, will, reactivity, patience and mutual-understanding
allow people to achieve goals and find creative ways to solve
problems.
PS : We don't own the copyrights of the pictures which were used in that
presentation, they were chosen to highlight without words what we have in common.
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* Presentation by Frédérique Delage