The interplay of business, art and science
I am guest hosting Elli St George Godfrey’s #kaizenblog Twitter chat, this Friday August 10, 2011, at 12 noon ET, 9:00 AM PT. Please join us. The topic is Creative Resilience during times of transition. This blog post frames the discussion: William Bridges, author of Managing Transitions, says “It isn’t the changes that do you [...]
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We tend to think of crafting, sculpting, and composing as components of art and design, but what if we applied these to the lives we live? “The way we live our lives, is itself, the process of creating a work of art,” says anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, author of ”Composing a Further Life: The Age [...]
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“Why Man Creates” is an animated documentary film created by Saul Bass, the iconic graphic designer, and commissioned by Kaiser Aluminum. It won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1968, and remains a timeless classic. In 2002, “Why Man Creates” was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of [...]
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A special report in The Atlantic: Great art begins with an idea. Sometimes a vague or even bad one. How does that spark of creativity find its way to the canvas, the page, the dinner plate, or the movie screen? How is inspiration refined into the forms that delight or provoke us? The report features [...]
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k.d. lang provides illuminating insights on her creative process, in describing her song writing collaboration with Joe Pisapia — and a great lesson for managers: For creativity to flourish in organizations, managers need to provide a focus to direct creative outputs, as well as the freedom and safety that allows people to fully express themselves. Joe [...]
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Here’s a new lens through which to explore creativity at work: Shibumi — rolls off the tongue nicely doesn’t it? Shibumi was a 1979 best-selling spy novel by Trevanian, but it could also be the core of your business strategy, consultant Matthew May believes. The Japanese word has no direct English translation, but in Change This [...]
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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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