The interplay of business, art and science
photo credit: mawel It’s great to see organizations taking arts-based learning seriously. In the case of MIT, the Leadership Center has published an article by professor Wanda J. Orlikowski on a Jazz-inspired approach to Change Management. She says, “Change does not always lend itself to well-rehearsed orchestration. The organizations most responsive to change are often [...]
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My favourite stories about innovation are of the grass roots variety. Here is an inspiring approach from India. Jugaad is a Hindi word that loosely translates as “the gutsy art of overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution using limited resources.” Jugaad is an antidote to the complexity of India: a country of mind-blogging [...]
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New York City has come up with a creative way to promote safety on the streets via arts-based learning: By rewriting traditional street-sign warnings in haiku form, New York City is using poetry to urge motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians to think about safety. (See one of the 200 new signs below.) City Transportation Commissioner Janette [...]
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Royal Roads University is one of my favourite places to give workshops. The campus is nestled in a forest, the quality of the air is amazing, the setting is beautiful, and the atmosphere is relaxed. RRU is an ideal setting for learning, creativity and experimentation. I always incorporate the gardens in my workshops, and getting [...]
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It’s the same story every year. Canada’s performance in productivity and innovation remains poor. Eugene Lang and Diana Carney in a Globe and Mail article published today, say “Successive governments have attempted to tackle the issue, yet progress is as elusive as ever.” I suspect it’s because much of the focus in the past has [...]
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Discover ways to make peace with left-brain logic and right-brain imagination, by taking a whole-brain approach to creativity. Learn how to create synergy between imagination, emotion, data and analysis, to produce optimal innovative results. Only a few days left to register for Whole Brain thinking. This is my most requested workshop worldwide. Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate [...]
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Here are some terrific examples of connecting diverse stimuli to generate new ideas: Excerpted from “Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work” by Michael Michalko, New World Library, 2011. The human brain cannot deliberately concentrate on two separate objects or ideas, no matter how dissimilar, no matter how remote, without eventually forming a connection between [...]
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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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