Tony Buzan tells HR: nurture your own creativity

Most people are using less than 1 per cent of the memory power and creativity of their brain – and the harnessing of this power will transform education and business in the future, Tony Buzan told the CIPD’s annual Scottish Conference in Dunblane yesterday.

He said that increasingly, the role of HR people would be "to nurture the natural creativity of every individual in the organisation” and to help them learn about and develop different cognitive skills, and other types of intelligences such as mapping and imagination.

 

It’s untenable to have a normal retirement age in public-sector schemes that is significantly different from the state retirement age

Brian Bailey, Director of pensions, West Midlands Pension Fund and member of High Pay Commission