Rafael - Living live a day at a time

My computer’s Hard Drive died 2 days ago, and it was only until today that the IT support team managed to save my files, so the posting with pictures from last weekend and about the Venezuelan Currency Exchange System has been delayed till next week.
Anyways I wanted to share some interesting and positive news I found today:

Ariz. High School Trades Books for Laptops: Students at Empire High School started class this year with no textbooks — but it wasn't because of a funding crisis. Instead, the school issued iBooks to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks.
Schools typically overlay computers onto their instruction "like frosting on the cake," said the Superintendent of the District. "We decided that the real opportunity was to make the laptops the key ingredient of the cake. ... to truly change the way that schools operated."

Health Benefits for Chocolate? Not Yet: The health potential is real. Cocoa beans have natural compounds called flavanols, and a growing pile of scientific research suggests they do good things to blood vessels.
"Most chocolate, in fact, isn't flavanol-rich," said Norm Hollenberg, a radiology professor and flavanol expert at Harvard Medical School. "But all chocolate is rich in fat and calories. Chocolate is a delight. It can and should be part of a prudent diet. That means you limit what you take."
Flavanols are found in other foods, such as red wine, grapes, apples and green tea, although cocoa beans are a particularly rich source.

Woman, 85, Celebrates Her Birthday on B-17: "I just happen to be fun-loving, I guess," she told The Ann Arbor News. "I always like to try crazy things. ... So I was thinking: What was I going to do for my 85th birthday?" Her answer: To ride in B-17 bomber.

To all of you interested in managing and leading organizations, businesses, companies, teams, etc. I have to recommend reading and subscribing to The CEO Refresher, a monthly newsletter that is really good, and has a great knowledge base in their archives.
Reading the latest issue I came across with a column made by Karim Jaude (Founder of BusinesssCoach1, a professional coaching service with over 6 years of experience) very interesting about innovation and change, here are some remarks from it:

We often think of innovation as creativity, but as Harvard professor Theodore Levitt points out, "the difference between innovation and creativity is the difference between thinking about getting things done in the world, and getting things done. Creativity thinks up new things, innovation does new things."
Innovation drives the heart of every exceptional business. Innovation continually poses the question, "What stands in the way of my customer getting what he wants from my business?" For the innovation to be meaningful, it must always take the customer's point of view. At the same time, innovation focuses your business on its critical essentials. It should make things easier in the operation of your business; otherwise, it is not innovation, but complication. Innovation helps your business identify itself and establish its individuality. This skill --developed within your business and your people constantly asks, "How can we do this better/best?"
While great leaders in the world might seem to have little in common, they all excel at turning every team member's talent into palpable performance, and they do not hesitate to break virtually every rule, held sacred by conventional wisdom. Leaders know that the business climate is in permanent flux and that different approaches to lead people are necessary. They must be open to new opportunities, find ways to be innovative, and be willing to change.

Now pose a question for you guys: How often do we use creativity instead of innovation in our daily work and activities? How often are companies (NGOs, Teams) truly open to innovation? What are we doing about it?