The interplay of business, art and science
Mothers of Invention Celebrates Historical and Contemporary Ingenuity, Inventions and Innovations of Women Join me at the opening of Mothers of Invention Exhibit: Stewart Farm, Crescent Beach —Surrey, BC, Sat March 5, 12pm-4pm I’m one of the featured innovators! Mothers of Invention explores the origins of inventions, objects and ideas of women going far back [...]
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David McLaren has written a thought-provoking treatise on the economic value the arts bring to rural communities in Canada. A rt, like most Canadians, comes from small places. Margaret Laurences The Stone Angel takes place in Manawaka, her fictional mirror for Neepawa in Manitoba. Everything in Robertson Davies Deptford Trilogy begins with a snowball thrown [...]
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“Business has much to learn from the arts.” As a pioneer in arts-based learning I’m happy to see this topic is being covered by The Economist, albeit with slight hesitation. Schumpeter describes a scenario akin to two solitudes dancing, and the worlds of art and business have much to teach each other. Here are a few [...]
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Eric von Hippel, who has been researching innovation for 30 years, estimates that when it comes to scientific instruments 77 percent of the innovations come from users. Financed by the British government, Mr. von Hippel and his colleagues last year completed the first representative large-scale survey of consumer innovation ever conducted. What the team discovered, [...]
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When people feel pressured to work long hours, and maintain an accelerated pace of work over the long haul, work becomes a form of drudgery that leads to stress-induced burnout. Workplace burnout kills the creative spark that fuels inspiration and passion. I know executives who have quit as a result of burnout, and I find it [...]
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Government and business leaders have long been frustrated that Canada doesn’t seem to be getting enough results from the roughly $7-billion it spends every year on R&D, directly and through tax breaks. A blue-chip panel of experts has come up with 10 simple – and relatively cheap – ways to help turn Canada into a [...]
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Here’s a new lens through which to explore creativity at work: Shibumi — rolls off the tongue nicely doesn’t it? Shibumi was a 1979 best-selling spy novel by Trevanian, but it could also be the core of your business strategy, consultant Matthew May believes. The Japanese word has no direct English translation, but in Change This [...]
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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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