But if ever an issue called for some creative formulaic solution, probably with an international ingredient, to save Syrian honour while calming Israel's fears about its water, this was it.

ECONOMIST: After Assad

"It's going to be the dominant issue, " says Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies, a consultancy.

FORBES: Sony, Matsushita Team Up On Linux

How to stay creative while your firm is ballooning through consolidation is a pressing issue for pharmaceutical executives.

ECONOMIST: Devices and desires

These issue center around three issues, who owns the creative work, who controls the future ownership of the creative work, and what are the tax implications of the creative work.

FORBES: You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Protect Your Image: Beastie Boys Rapper Bans Use of Music In Ads After His Death

Continuing this legacy of creative resistance, filmmaker and activist, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, speaks out on the issue of sexual violence.

FORBES: Black Women, Sexual Assault and the Art of Resistance

While sketchbooks won't be standard issue for the professional artists on the Disko Bay Expedition, David Buckland says creative freedom will be encouraged.

CNN: Celebrities embark on climate change voyage

This annual Celebrities issue brings confections for the eyes and mind, which is not to diminish the creative and resourceful way our FORBES U.S. colleagues, headed by Peter Kafka, pull together this compilation.

FORBES: Sidelines

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

WSJ: How to Stay Motivated: Daniel Pink on 'Drive'

"If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden, and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs, a whole new world of opportunity will open up, " he says on the issue.

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