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Solution-Finding: Leading with Creativity
Date: Tuesday & Wednesday, [...]
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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
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A Whole New Mind:
by Daniel H. Pink
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google [...]
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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 love [...]
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Posted in BOOKS WORTH READING, Home on Mar 25th, 2009
No I can’t speak Chinese, but if you can here are the details:
本书供培训师、咨询顾问、教育从业者和为员工提供各种类型培训的经理们而编写的。在团队工作中用非传统的方式,通过挖掘参与者的潜在创造力达到拓展新视野的目的。
70个团队建设艺术工具/用音乐、戏剧、故事等手段增进团队合作/国际培训与发展资源库/Orchestrating collaboration at work: 用音乐、戏剧、故事等手段增进团队合作
By 范甘迪, 奈曼
Translated by 童颖, 王淑娟
Published by 上海远东出版社, 2006
ISBN 780706238X, 9787807062387
274 pages
The English version is available at Amazon
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve Teamwork (Paperback)
by Arthur VanGundy (Author), Linda Naiman (Author)
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Collaboration has become a hot topic lately, and a recent IBM global study of CEOs revealed that collaboration is key to innovation success, especially when collaboration occurs beyond company walls. Projects are often too complex for individuals or even teams in one company to tackle. Collaboration can be a challenge depending on the culture of [...]
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One of the highlights of the ACA Singapore 2008 conference, was the keynote delivered by Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO / President of The LEGO Group.
He said the purpose of Lego is to help children become creative in an extremely logical fashion. Did you know all ten thousand pieces of Lego fit together and [...]
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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
Source: Nussbaum on Design
I would add empathy, aesthetics, creativity, and customer-focus to the list.
Stanford’s D school believes great [...]
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