The Creativity at Work Blog

Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes: Collaborative Thinking Process Mindedness Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach Human-centered Tech/Business focus Systems thinking Synthesis Rapid Concept Generation Envisioning Rapid Prototyping Visualizing Catalyzing decision-making Storytelling Realizing Roadmapping Managing transformation [...]

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Food for thought: “Sound when stretched is music. Movement when stretched is dance. Mind when stretched is meditation. Life when stretched is celebration.” ~Shri Shri Ravishankar Jee ~

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In this Issue: Upcoming public workshops Creativity at Work across the Commonwealth: Vancouver, Victoria, Singapore, and Sidney Rituals and Celebrations: Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in ~ Leonard Cohen ‘Strange Music’ I used to think rituals and ceremonies [...]

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Are you stumped for ideas about what to give this holiday season? One of my coaching clients recently expressed annoyance at shopping for “stuff” that she doesn’t want to buy, and that family members probably don’t really want to receive. After a certain age we don’t really want more stuff. We want experience. When I [...]

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Influencing For Impact Course # 141 UBC Vancouver BC January 18, 2008 1 day 9:00-4:00 pm With Linda Naiman The success of your project and the course of your career depends on your ability to influence people to get things done. This highly interactive workshop provides an overview of developing influence, power and impact (drawn [...]

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Test yourself to see if you are right-brain dominant or left-brained. You’ll find the results quite informative. My own results are 45% L brain and 55% R brain. No wonder I conduct whole-brain thinking workshops! The test is part of a clever campaign by The Art Institute of Vancouver. They are looking for creative people [...]

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Images from Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art ARTISTIC LIMITATIONS  Cataracts forced Mary Cassatt to stop working years before her death in 1926. She painted “Young Mother Sewing” in 1900. More Photos > For Claude Monet, 1912-22 was a watershed decade. He was perhaps the most successful artist of his time, and his genius had already [...]

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