How long is now? A visit last month to The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco inspired the theme for this newsletter. The term was coined by Brian Eno, who noticed when he first moved to New York City, here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here [...]
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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 [...]
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September-October 2008 A big thank you to Ralph Kerle of The Creative Leadership Forum, and Lisa Canning of Entrepreneur the Arts, for helping to make our first Transformational Leadership Forum a success. One of the highlights of our forum was a passionate discussion led by David Fushtey of the Governance Counsel who provoked us with [...]
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Transformational Leadership for the Age of Innovation Sept 16-18, 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada Master Classes presented by global pioneers in arts-based learning for business: Ralph Kerle CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific and Linda Naiman founder of Creativity at Work Download the brochure “The best in art and life comes from a centre; something [...]
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Transformational Leadership for the Age of Innovation Sept 16-18, 2008, Vancouver BC, Canada Master Classes presented by global pioneers in arts-based learning for business: Ralph Kerle CEO of the Creative Leadership Forum, Asia Pacific and Linda Naiman founder of Creativity at Work Immerse yourself in ideas, thinking processes and strategies used by leading innovators [...]
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Massue writes: “In 1984, when Cirque du Soleil were still street performers, Guy Laliberte, founder and chief executive officer, said, “If the Cirque makes it big, it will be because it succeeds at marrying art and business.” Today, Cirque du Soleil has 11 shows worldwide, and Guy Laliberte is worth over $1 billion.” Continued here:
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by Renee Hopkins Callahan [A previous post (Ideaflow)] talked about creativity at work and collaborative creativity, and those are the subjects of the book Orchestrating Collaboration At Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork by Linda Naiman and Arthur Van Gundy. The book was published in 2003 by Wiley/Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, but is [...]
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ORCHESTRATING COLLABORATION AT WORK: Using music, improv, storytelling and other arts to improve teamwork By Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman $58.99 USD at Amazon.com 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. All 70 activities [...]
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