The interplay of business, art and science
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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UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) Highlights: A new development paradigm is emerging that links the economy and culture, embracing economic, cultural, technological and social aspects of development at both the macro and micro levels. Central to the new paradigm is the fact that creativity, knowledge and access to information are increasingly recognized [...]
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Why the arts matter When times get tough and choices must be made, it is often the arts that lose. Why is this so? When compared to health or human service needs, the arts are often viewed as less important and therefore more discretionary in nature. But this line of thinking misses the point about [...]
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Have you got a solution for arts funding in your community? If so, I’d like to hear from you. I’m looking for solutions that help foster the arts in communities, (beyond government grants and traditional corporate funding) that I hope will inspire my government, and yours, to take action, and contribute in innovative ways to [...]
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A conversation yesterday with colleague Bob Eckert about creativity, innovation and commerce, got me thinking about the visionary thinking of Willis Harman (1918-1997) founder of the World Business Academy. Harman said, ”Business has become, in this last half century, the most powerful institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility [...]
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Tim Eavenson has written a thought-provoking blog about working for free, based on a story on NPR this morning profiling Ariel Horn, the head of a small ad agency in New York, who thinks he’s come up with a novel model for riding out the recession. Horn has opened his doors to out-of-work execs to come [...]
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Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. His movie traces the history of our current economic debacle back to the Middle Ages, and how current crisis is actually an opportunity to reinstate commerce and communities based in creating value for one another, rather than [...]
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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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