The interplay of business, art and science
Discover ways to make peace with left-brain logic and right-brain imagination, by taking a whole-brain approach to creativity. Learn how to create synergy between imagination, emotion, data and analysis, to produce optimal innovative results. Only a few days left to register for Whole Brain thinking. This is my most requested workshop worldwide. Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate [...]
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Here are some terrific examples of connecting diverse stimuli to generate new ideas: Excerpted from “Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work” by Michael Michalko, New World Library, 2011. The human brain cannot deliberately concentrate on two separate objects or ideas, no matter how dissimilar, no matter how remote, without eventually forming a connection between [...]
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What skills and content areas will be growing in importance in the next five years? Join me for a one or two- day workshop on Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and Leadership at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC Dates: Wednesday, November 30 or Wednesday & Thursday, November 30 – December 1, 2011 or Thursday, May [...]
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Supporters of the status quo — not the creative types — are seen as more effective. A recent study warns leaders not to be too creative. Unless you have plenty of charisma to complement your creativity, thinking outside the box could keep you out of top management. Companies say they want fresh ideas from their [...]
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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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Mothers of Invention Celebrates Historical and Contemporary Ingenuity, Inventions and Innovations of Women Join me at the opening of Mothers of Invention Exhibit: Stewart Farm, Crescent Beach —Surrey, BC, Sat March 5, 12pm-4pm I’m one of the featured innovators! Mothers of Invention explores the origins of inventions, objects and ideas of women going far back [...]
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Eric von Hippel, who has been researching innovation for 30 years, estimates that when it comes to scientific instruments 77 percent of the innovations come from users. Financed by the British government, Mr. von Hippel and his colleagues last year completed the first representative large-scale survey of consumer innovation ever conducted. What the team discovered, [...]
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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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