The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Home on Sep 25th, 2008
Take Action. Art and culture are the lifeblood of our economy. Write or Call your candidates; meet them; approach them at public events; organize or attend an official debate between local candidates. Here’s how: http://www.canadianartscoalition.ca/en/takeaction/write.cfm
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Sep 25th, 2008
The Creative Economy is the antidote to Wall Streets woes. According to recent reports from the UNCTAD, the Creative Economy is undergoing unprecedented growth compared with traditional services and manufacturing. What is the Creative Economy? UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) defines the Creative Economy as a set of knowledge-based economic activities making intensive use [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, BOOKS, Events, Science on Sep 25th, 2008
Integral City Book Launch Nov 5, 2008 University Women’s Club 7:00 pm– 9:30 pm Hycroft 1489 McRae Ave. Vancouver BC (Granville & 16 Ave.) Limited Seating. Register by Oct. 30. Register: Tel: 604 731-4661 or Email: uwcv@uwcvancouver.ca Cost: By Donation at the Door My friend and colleague Marilyn Hamilton has written an important soon-to-be-published new book. Integral City: Evolutionary [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Sep 4th, 2008
The Conference Board of Canada’s Report Card on Canada: Underperforming in Most Subjects Canada possesses huge natural resource wealth, skilled human capital, and next-door access to the world’s richest economy. We have a remarkable combination of social cohesion, and cultural and linguistic diversity; enjoy relative safety in a risky world; and are benefiting from our resource endowment at [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, Creativity and Innovation, Home, arts-in-business on Sep 4th, 2008
Tatsuya Nakagawa, co-founder of Atomica Creative recently blogged about yours truly: Our approach to innovation has been somewhat focused on the industrial side. We’re always looking for ways to help innovators avoid pitfalls and apply processes to improve their returns from innovation activities. It hasn’t been as inclusive of the creative aspects that we recognize [...]
Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work.
She applies arts-based learning and design-thinking to leadership development, creativity and innovation.
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations.
