Alchemy of Leadership: Going for the Gold
By Linda Naiman
Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee engagement, change and renewal.
How do you transform [...]
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Posted in Artful Leadership, DESIGN on May 7th, 2009
BECKY BERMONT on REDESIGNING LEADERSHIP at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
A student once asked John Maeda, “If RISD is such a creative place, why aren’t we led with more creativity?” That comment has stuck with him. Since both he and our Provost (Chief Academic Officer) are truly artist/administrators (rather than artists-turned-administrators), they have undertaken a quest to redesign [...]
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Here is a wonderful interview by John Chase, with John Morefield, a twice laid-off architect who set up shop at Pike’s Place Market in Seattle offering architecture advice to anyone that wanted it for just 5 cents. This quickly led to a number of freelance clients who got his business off the ground.
Q&A
Can you give me a [...]
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Posted in DESIGN, Events, Home on Mar 4th, 2009
Presented by Linda Naiman
Hosted by Happen.ca
Date: Tues March 31, 2009
Time: 9:00am -10:30am
Venue: Airport Square
1200 W 73rd Ave
Vancouver, BC V6P 6G5
Map
Cost: $10
Design isn’t just for products, it’s also a strategic thinking tool that leads to dramatic new forms of value for organisations such as P&G.
Linda Naiman, a creativity and innovation consultant with an international clientele [...]
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My hope for this New Year is that we find the inspiration, insight and wisdom we need to guide us in finding optimal solutions to the challenges we face. Answers don’t just come from logic and analysis. We also need imagination. One of the ways we can be inspired is through the arts.
I’m happy to [...]
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Posted in DESIGN, Events, Home on Jan 29th, 2009
I will be speaking at this event and if you are in or near Syracuse NY, please join us. It is free and open to the public.
Come to a “Day of PLAY!” February 11th.
Discussions and workshops featuring
Scott Eberle, Vice President for Interpretation at the Strong National Museum of Play,
Neil Stevenson, the leader of internationally-acclaimed design firm [...]
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The theme for the this month is arts-based learning and development
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Posted in DESIGN on Oct 31st, 2008
Here is a beautiful example of design thinking by Central Office of Design
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