The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in ARTS, Creativity and Innovation, Home, Science on Aug 19th, 2010
Replenish your creative stock In the The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron contends that, “In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fishpond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked… As artists, [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Aug 11th, 2010
Creativity at Work Newsletter, July/August 2010 Is America suffering from a creativity crisis? Pundits have been buzzing about this question ever since Newsweek ran “The Creativity Crisis“ as their cover story last month. “For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it?” Creativity tests, developed by E. Paul [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, arts-based training, arts-in-business on Aug 11th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Home on Aug 10th, 2010
photo credit: lucamascaro Why do people hate brainstorming so much? If the same people who work with the same problems everyday meet and discuss these problems using the same language and procedures the outcome is always predictable. Sameness breeds more sameness. Seeing the world with old eyes only helps produce old ideas. —Arthur VanGundy, PhD [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Home on Aug 5th, 2010
photo credit: jonny goldstein Consider creativity, framing in negotiating Recalling a fellow student from law school days, Latz noted the student framed issues differently from the professor and most other law students. As an art-history major in college, he was not accustomed to linear, logical analysis and thought. Instead, he viewed things in a more [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation on Jul 19th, 2010
Here’s an exciting opportunity for innovators and inventors: A $200 million open innovation challenge to find and fund the best ideas for bringing the US power grid into the 21st century. Due date: September 30, 2010. GE’s Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid, aims to leverage GE’s scale, technical expertise and client relationships to bring new ideas [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, Creativity and Innovation, Events, arts-in-business on Jul 17th, 2010
Linda Naiman interviewed on the Winds of Change TV show about art, and creativity in business.
Posted in BOOKS, Creativity and Innovation, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Events, Home on Jun 29th, 2010
June 2010 Last month I reported on the IBM 2010 Global CEO Study, which reveals that Creativity is the Most Crucial Factor for Future Success. CEOs believe that, “more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision — successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity.” Here are some books and resources to help [...]
Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work.
She applies arts-based learning and design-thinking to leadership development, creativity and innovation.
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations.
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