Comments on: Talent, Creativity, and the Crisis http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/27/talent-creativity-and-the-crisis/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: The Urbanophile http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/12/27/talent-creativity-and-the-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-8559 The Urbanophile Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:20:23 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=6446#comment-8559 Query: It sounds like you are defining financial sector jobs as non-creative. Were financial sector employees excluded in your previous research that indicated something like 30% of the US employee base was creative? It strikes me that the people on Wall Street, at Enron, etc. were extremely creative. They simply used their creativity for purposes others might not agree with. Alchemy is pretty creative stuff. Creativity is a force and capability which, like many others, can be used for good or ill. Query: It sounds like you are defining financial sector jobs as non-creative. Were financial sector employees excluded in your previous research that indicated something like 30% of the US employee base was creative?

It strikes me that the people on Wall Street, at Enron, etc. were extremely creative. They simply used their creativity for purposes others might not agree with. Alchemy is pretty creative stuff. Creativity is a force and capability which, like many others, can be used for good or ill.

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