Creativity at Work Newsletter
Oct 2nd, 2008 by Linda Naiman
September-October 2008
A big thank you to Ralph Kerle of The Creative Leadership Forum, and Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts, for helping to make our first Transformational Leadership Forum a success. One of the highlights of our forum was a passionate discussion led by David Fushtey of the Governance Counsel who provoked us with questions innovators don’t often think about. Continued here
Whole Brain Thinking: New Neural Pathways
Join me in a two day workshop at Royal Roads University, in Victoria BC
Thursday and Friday Oct 30 and 31, 2008
Explore the strategic dimensions of Whole Brain Thinking and learn practical tools and techniques that integrate right-brain imagination, artistry and intuition with left-brain logic, analysis, and planning.
Topics:
- Creativity and innovation in art, business, science and design: as a body of principles, actions and results
- Case studies from the world’s most successful organizations
- Creative leadership
- Whole-brain thinking model developed by Ned Herrmann
- Profiting in the Creative Economy
Click here for details and to register:
The Creative Economy is the antidote to Wall Street woes.
According to recent reports from the UNCTAD, the Creative Economy is undergoing unprecedented growth compared with traditional services and manufacturing.
The Conference Board of Canada’s Report Card on Canada: Underperforming in Most Subjects
We score a D in Innovation, a paradox, given we have a thriving creative economy:
The Conference Board estimates that the culture sector generated about $46 billion in real value-added GDP in 2007, which constituted 3.8 per cent of Canada’s real GDP. However, when considering the effect of culture industries on other sectors of the economy—accounting for indirect and induced effects—the overall impact was much larger. According to our estimates, the economic footprint of the culture sector was valued at about $84.6 billion in 2007, or 7.4 per cent of total real GDP.
This presents an excellent argument to apply arts-based principles and practices to business and science. Continued
Art and Culture have become election issues in Canada
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.
See also US Financial Crisis Creates Artistic Opportunity for Global Transformation by Lisa Canning
Crisis Equals Opportunity
Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal says “U.S. nonfinancial companies have just under $1 trillion in cash on their books. Even though Wall Street is dead, innovation is not: In the months to come, clever new financial go-betweens will spring up and find a way to get that cash flowing again. It’s hard to see how a depression could get under way when so much capital is waiting in the wings.”
Examples include Virgin Money
Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive
Join us for an engaging and interactive evening
at the University Women’s Club, Vancouver BC
Nov. 5, 2008
My friend and colleague Marilyn Hamilton has written an important soon-to-be-published new book. Integral City offers us a brilliant and revolutionary new way to examine our cities through the lens of science, ecology and systems theory, to create a new vision of what a city could be — one that supports life on this planet as well as our own evolution as human beings.
Listen to Marilyn’s presentation on the Integral City and explore what happens when courageous dialogue surfaces differences, makes new connections, opens new pathways, brings hope, and creates city learning.
Happy Creating,
Linda Naiman
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Linda Naiman is co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work,
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