The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Conferences, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Apr 21st, 2008
Highlights from the American Creativity Association Conference in Singapore
I was invited to speak at the ACA conference which took place the last week in February in Singapore. 200 people attended from 33+ countries, making this a truly international meeting. I love being part of conferences in far off lands, because it is an [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Feb 13th, 2008
My wish for the New Year is for all of you dear subscribers to find the time for contemplation and creative expression. I know some of you are closet artists too busy being captains of industry to take the time to paint, but as the Talmud asks, “If not now, when?
My second wish is for [...]
Posted in Conferences, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, arts-based training on Dec 21st, 2007
In this Issue:
Upcoming public workshops
Creativity at Work across the Commonwealth:
Vancouver, Victoria, Singapore, and Sidney
Rituals and Celebrations:
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
~ Leonard Cohen ‘Strange Music’
I used to think rituals and ceremonies (especially religious ones) were a colossal [...]
Posted in Art, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Nov 30th, 2007
Nearly 40 Percent of Employees Say Companies Are Not Creative
One in five U.S. workers also say they would take less money to work at a more creative company, according to a new survey. When asked about their company’s creative potential, 39 percent of respondents said they do not think of their company as a [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter on Oct 31st, 2007
Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?
Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983)
Singapore
This question appears on Canada’s 20$ bill in tiny little mice type, and I love that it is printed on our money. I thought of Roy’s question after my first trip to Singapore last August, because prior to the trip whenever [...]
Posted in Creativity, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Design, Innovation on Sep 30th, 2007
Today like every other day
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down
a musical instrument. Let the beauty you love
be what you do. There are a thousand ways
to kneel down and kiss the ground.
– Rumi
Pure Poetry
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon in Vancouver and I am listening to [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Aug 1st, 2007
Creativity at Work Newsletter
July/August 2007
Diane Ackerman, in her book An Alchemy of Mind, says “I’ve always trekked through imaginary worlds, lived on my senses, and fiddled with words. Writing is my form of celebration and prayer, but it is also the way I organize and inquire about the world. Driven by an intense, nomadic [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Innovation on Jun 29th, 2007
Creativity At Work Newsletter
June 2007
This month’s newsletter is guest authored by Peter Roosen & Tatsuya Nakagawa, two experts in bringing new products to market, but first I have a couple of announcements:
Book review
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, an arts-based training book which I co-authored with Arthur VanGundy has been reviewed by Mireille Massue for [...]