The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in 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 [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Creativity at Work Newsletter, DESIGN 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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, Creativity and Innovation Training, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Events, Home, arts-based training, arts-in-business 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 [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, Science on May 28th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in BOOKS, Creativity at Work Newsletter on Apr 4th, 2007
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. [...]
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.
