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 Coaching, Home on Aug 13th, 2010
“Help!” says a new client, “I recently got promoted to a management position at work. How do I find the balance between leading and being in control, without being a control freak?” As a former prima donna, I’ve been on both sides of the fence on this issue. When I was a design consultant, many [...]
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 Home, arts-based training on Aug 10th, 2010
The Dean of Pixar University explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace. He makes a compelling case for arts-based learning to develop 21st century thinking skills
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 [...]
This excerpt is from the autobiographical documentary Buenos Aires, meine Geschichte (1998) by German Kral, an Argentinian filmmaker. As he neared the end of his life, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author and poet (1899 – 1986), expressed his thoughts on the “task of art:” The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening [...]
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 Home on Jul 31st, 2010
…. Or an innovation fuelling the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Some startling statistics on the impact social media has on business, education and society…
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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