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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k.d. lang provides illuminating insights on her creative process, in describing her song writing collaboration with Joe Pisapia — and a great lesson for managers: For creativity to flourish in organizations, managers need to provide a focus to direct creative outputs, as well as the freedom and safety that allows people to fully express themselves. Joe [...]
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We have created this last minute opportunity for a lunch-and-learn session at the AGO while I am in Toronto on business: Topic: What can we learn from the arts that we can apply to business? Time: Wednesday, March 9 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON Lunchtime talk: Discover the strategic ways art [...]
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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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Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 31 issue 4, has published a special issue on creatively intelligent companies and leaders: Arts-based learning for business Guest edited by Harvey Seifter and Ted Buswick Here is an excerpt : For about 20 combined years, a large part of our professional energies and personal passions have been engaged by [...]
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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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