{"id":1580,"date":"2012-07-08T23:30:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T06:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markccrowley.com\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2012-07-08T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T06:30:54","slug":"how-100-super-creative-people-are-about-to-change-life-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/how-100-super-creative-people-are-about-to-change-life-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How 100 Super-Creative People Are About To Change Life As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fast\u201cGenius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.\u201d
\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0William James<\/p>\n

Fast Company<\/em> Magazine<\/em> recently published its annual list of the \u201c100 Most Creative People In Business,\u201d<\/em> an assemblage of truly remarkable and inspiring human beings.<\/p>\n

Honestly, it took me several hours to read through the 50-plus-page digest, a considerable commitment of time I willingly made to gain greater insight into the minds that are changing the world we live in.<\/p>\n

Before I\u2019d read any of the 100 mini-biographies, I\u2019d already begun to wonder what common denominators I might find among all these uber-creatives.\u00a0 I also wanted to discover where the focus of all this brainpower was going.<\/p>\n

Gratefully, the list has broad representation in areas really needing man\u2019s ingenuity: politics, education, medicine, design and technology.\u00a0 And the top-ranked genius, Mah Jun, has committed his life to China\u2019s environmental clean up.<\/p>\n

But it deserves our attention that the highest percentage of our greatest innovators and creative thinkers have devoted their gifts to advancing the causes of social media<\/em> and e-commerce<\/em>.\u00a0 And by the time I was done reading about all these wunderkinds, I was certain that their ideas were about to have a profound influence on our personal and professional lives for years to come.<\/p>\n

You should know what trends these 100 geniuses are creating.\u00a0 With that in mind, I want to share the three most prominent ones in hope that the information will help you more effectively lead your people and enterprise in the months ahead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Nearly half of the 100 most creative people are responsible for their organization’s brand marketing or on-line presence.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I tallied up the occupations of all 100 people on the list and nearly 1 in 2 are in the process of changing how products are marketed and sold \u2013 and, concurrently, defining the entire future of social media.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For starters, it was striking to read that Facebook has hired Rebecca Van Dyke as its new head of consumer marketing \u2013 news that\u2019s appears to be a harbinger of how Facebook is seeking to evolve from a strictly social networking site to a product marketing juggernaut as well.\u00a0 Van Dyke\u2019s credentials:\u00a0 She led Nike\u2019s massively successful \u201cJust Do It\u201d campaign before moving to Apple and launching both the iPhone and<\/em> the iPad.<\/p>\n

\u00a0That\u2019s a lot of astonishing achievement behind just one person, of course, so you can bet that much about the future look and functionality of Facebook has been assigned to her brilliant imagination.\u00a0 And, place an even bigger bet that Van Dyke not only will succeed by creating new and myriad revenue sources, she\u2019ll greatly drive up Facebook\u2019s currently weakened stock price as well.<\/p>\n

Two other examples of on-line innovation and signs of things to come:<\/p>\n