The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on Aug 13th, 2010
“Help!” says a new client, “I recently got promoted to a management position at work. How do I find the balance between leading and being in control, without being a control freak?” As a former prima donna, I’ve been on both sides of the fence on this issue. When I was a design consultant, many [...]
Posted in on Sep 29th, 2009
Creativity and Innovation Coaching A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs says creativity is the number one ‘leadership competency’ of the future. “CEOs believe that, “more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision — successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity.” Creativity and innovation coaching provides leaders, innovators and change agents, with [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on Sep 25th, 2009
What a surprise to learn that Eric Schmidt has a coach. In “The Best Advice I Ever Got” a feature by Fortune Magazine, Schmidt explains why having a coach is so important: A coach is crucial to giving you perspective. Watch the video: Schmidt: Everyone needs a coach(0:41) Find inspiration, renewed confidence, and the empowerment to [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, Creativity and Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on Jun 19th, 2009
Tim Eavenson has written a thought-provoking blog about working for free, based on a story on NPR this morning profiling Ariel Horn, the head of a small ad agency in New York, who thinks he’s come up with a novel model for riding out the recession. Horn has opened his doors to out-of-work execs to come [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home on May 14th, 2009
Linda Naiman, a business and life coach, offers people who have recently been laid off a complimentary 30-minute coaching session [until June 30, 2009] to help spark the process of creative transformation. She suggests considering the following exercises:
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on May 12th, 2009
This newsletter is dedicated to Arthur (Andy) VanGundy who passed away May 5, 2009 Dr. Arthur (Andy) VanGundy, was a pioneer in business creativity, a friend, colleague, and my co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work. He died May 5, following heart surgery. I posted some of my memories of Andy on my blog and would [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Events, Home on Mar 12th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Coaching, Home, Management Innovation on Oct 25th, 2008
A manager in a large government organization asked me in a coaching session, what could she do to make meetings more enjoyable, more engaging and more productive for everyone. Ah yes…meetings…the source of much misery in the workplace. My first question is.. why are you having a meeting in the first place? Can you get [...]
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.
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