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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The Art and Science of Happiness
In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying the science of happiness, and their findings are having an impact on business, economics and government policy.
American psychologist, Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, says that simply by asking people, how happy they are at various times of the [...]

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In his new book, Howard Gardner argues that to survive the demands of tomorrow’s world we must develop five ways of thinking, or five ‘minds’.
1. The disciplined mind has mastered at least one way of thinking. It takes up to ten years to achieve mastery.
2. The synthesising mind takes information from disparate sources. It understands [...]

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