Reading List for my courses on Creativity, Leadership and Innovation at Royal Roads University Solution Finding: Leading with Creativity Putting Passion to Work: Potent Leadership Buy these books through Amazon. Just click on the links to get details or visit my Amazon Bookstore for my collections A Whole New Mind: by Daniel H. Pink Artscience: Creativity in [...]
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Here is a wonderful interview by John Chase, with John Morefield, a twice laid-off architect who set up shop at Pike’s Place Market in Seattle offering architecture advice to anyone that wanted it for just 5 cents. This quickly led to a number of freelance clients who got his business off the ground. Q&A Can you give [...]
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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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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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Posted in DESIGN, Home on Dec 22nd, 2007
Shilajeet (Banny) Banerjee, who runs the Joint Program in Design at Stanford, says complexity requires a new way of thinking and design thinking is the answer. This includes: Collaborative Thinking Process Mindedness Holistic Multi-Disciplinary Approach Human-centered Tech/Business focus Systems thinking Synthesis Rapid Concept Generation Envisioning Rapid Prototyping Visualizing Catalyzing decision-making Storytelling Realizing Roadmapping Managing transformation [...]
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Posted in arts-in-business on Sep 19th, 2007
An invitation to the arts-in-business community Welcome to all of you who are interested in the interplay of arts and business, and want to participate in a dialogue with other practitioners in this pioneering work. I especially welcome those of you who have bought Orchestrating Collaboration at Work (VanGundy, Naiman) who want to share experiences, [...]
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Posted in on Apr 4th, 2007
Welcome! Through this blog I continue to expand on arts-based learning in organizational development, first published in Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, a training book I co-authored with Arthur VanGundy. I welcome our comments and insights. My interest is in meta-disciplinary learning through the interplay of business, art, design and science, for the purpose of making [...]
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