The interplay of business, art and science
60 Minutes featured Wynton Marsalis last week in a fantastic interview with Morley Safer. When Safer asked, “Does it sadden you that, for the most part, young people may not even know who you’re talking about when you say Charlie Parker or Duke Ellington?,” Marsalis made these cogent observations about art and culture: “It saddens me that people [...]
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Here is a good news story about Canadian manufacturers: They are finding a niche in the global market by creating value through ingenuity and innovation. One example is Transformix, which specializes in complex custom-made automation machinery that assembles parts at remarkable speeds – up to 1,000 a minute. It also makes other huge machines, some up [...]
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Exploring the Craft of Design Thinking “It is not about the world of design, it is about the design of the world.” Bruce Mau I’ve been invited to join the panel on Integrating Visual Thinking, Dialog and Storytelling for Sensemaking, August 19, and I’m looking forward to being part of this unconference. Design thinking has [...]
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We tend to think of crafting, sculpting, and composing as components of art and design, but what if we applied these to the lives we live? “The way we live our lives, is itself, the process of creating a work of art,” says anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, author of ”Composing a Further Life: The Age [...]
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Supporters of the status quo — not the creative types — are seen as more effective. A recent study warns leaders not to be too creative. Unless you have plenty of charisma to complement your creativity, thinking outside the box could keep you out of top management. Companies say they want fresh ideas from their [...]
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Creativity at Work Newsletter: Spring 2011 My goodness it’s been ages since I last published a newsletter and I hope this one makes up for it. I have three stories to tell about embodied learning— that is, learning by interacting with subject matter aesthetically, emotionally, and/or physically. In a world dominated by computer screens and [...]
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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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