The interplay of business, art and science
k.d. lang provides illuminating insights on her creative process, in describing her song writing collaboration with Joe Pisapia — and a great lesson for managers: For creativity to flourish in organizations, managers need to provide a focus to direct creative outputs, as well as the freedom and safety that allows people to fully express themselves. Joe [...]
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We have created this last minute opportunity for a lunch-and-learn session at the AGO while I am in Toronto on business: Topic: What can we learn from the arts that we can apply to business? Time: Wednesday, March 9 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON Lunchtime talk: Discover the strategic ways art [...]
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David McLaren has written a thought-provoking treatise on the economic value the arts bring to rural communities in Canada. A rt, like most Canadians, comes from small places. Margaret Laurences The Stone Angel takes place in Manawaka, her fictional mirror for Neepawa in Manitoba. Everything in Robertson Davies Deptford Trilogy begins with a snowball thrown [...]
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“Business has much to learn from the arts.” As a pioneer in arts-based learning I’m happy to see this topic is being covered by The Economist, albeit with slight hesitation. Schumpeter describes a scenario akin to two solitudes dancing, and the worlds of art and business have much to teach each other. Here are a few [...]
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Linda Naiman interviewed on the Winds of Change TV show about art, and creativity in business.
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Excerpts from a webinar, first presented to organizational development professionals at sedaa.net
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photo credit: FredMikeRudy Miles Davis: Kind of Blue Harvard professor Robert D. Austin, and Carl Stormer in this case study examine how successful companies can “jump to the next S-curve” through an analogy to the life’s work of Miles Davis, especially his paradigm-shattering Kind of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, [...]
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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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Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork
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