If you feel tapped out, here are a few reminders to get back to your creative, productive self. (In this case, you are “the company.”)

7 Ways to Unlock Your Company’s Creative Juices

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238029

Did you hear last month about the Maryland teacher who was arrested? Early reports pointed to two science fiction books he’d written as a reason he was considered a threat. Later reports placed the blame on a letter he’d written.
The first report I saw was from The Atlantic mobile site (In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment for a Novelist – Atlantic).
It all seemed bizarre. A bit too 1984 or The Trial. So I went looking for a follow-up story and found “What I Didn’t See At First About The MD School Teacher/Sci-Fi Writer” in the Daily Kos.
I finally found an article in The Baltimore Sun that seemed to explain the story a little better. (Letter penned by teacher placed on leave a point of contention for lawyers).
In the end, I’m left with more questions than answers. Did a young man need help? Did his fiction really play a role in his detention? Was race a factor? Will the full story ever come out? Or will some other novelist have to explore the way things play out?

Do you work with someone who seems to spend more time getting ready to work than actually working? Someone with notebooks full of minutiae but few concrete results? Is her or his mind as cluttered with details, too? Jessica Stillman offers some ideas to reduce brain clutter.

Prompt: What happens when a brain-cluttered person faces a problem for which she or he is unprepared?

3 Tricks for a More Organized Mind | Inc.com

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/3-tricks-for-a-more-organized-mind.html