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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John Howkins on the Creative Economy and Creative Ecologies
John Howkins has written an article for my blog based on his latest book is Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture) He is the author of the best-selling book The Creative Economy
“The continual search for novelty that lies [...]
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Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY on May 25th, 2009
I am inspired by the values and aspirations of Michael Ignatieff’s speech accepting the leadership of Canada’s Liberal Party, earlier this month.
We know that economic recovery cannot be purchased at the price of leaving anyone out in the cold. We know that economic recovery means unlocking the creativity of every citizen. … To unite our people, to [...]
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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)
5.0 out of 5 stars See all [...]
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Imagine. Create. Innovate.
I’m glad that creativity and innovation are gaining currency amongst world leaders. How else will we find ways to flourish?
The European Year of Creativity and Innovation wants to raise awareness of importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development, to disseminate good practices, stimulate education and research, and promote policy [...]
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John Cimino of Creative Leaps has devised a quiz based on two lists of competencies.
The first is a list that Eliot Eisner from Stanford University developed on how the mind processes art
Qualitative relationships in the absence of rules
Acting flexibly with purpose to approach a goal
Learning to explore possibilities within a medium
Using imagination to see multiple [...]
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My wish for the New Year is for all of you dear subscribers to find the time for contemplation and creative expression. I know some of you are closet artists too busy being captains of industry to take the time to paint, but as the Talmud asks, “If not now, when?
My second wish is for [...]
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In this Issue:
Upcoming public workshops
Creativity at Work across the Commonwealth:
Vancouver, Victoria, Singapore, and Sidney
Rituals and Celebrations:
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
~ Leonard Cohen ‘Strange Music’
I used to think rituals and ceremonies (especially religious ones) were a colossal [...]
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