Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.