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Samuel W. Franklin

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The Birth of Brainstorming

Meet the self-help author who wanted to teach corporate America how to think.

by Samuel W. Franklin via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 17, 2023

The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

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How Corporate America’s Obsession With Creativity Wrecked the World and Brought Us Elon Musk

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on December 30, 2023

Figurine of man with his head in a kiln (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

The Corporatization of Creativity

Our ways of thinking about thinking are a product of postwar business culture.

by Charlie Tyson via The Chronicle of Higher Education on July 24, 2023

Illustration by Cristina Spano, picturing rulers and colorful shapes and designs coming out of the neck of a collared shirt

The Origins of Creativity

The concept was devised in postwar America, in response to the cultural and commercial demands of the era. Now we’re stuck with it.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on April 17, 2023

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