Date: Thursday & Friday, January 31, & February 1, 2008
Place: Royal Roads University, Victoria BC
Length: 2 days
Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate when it comes to innovation. Explore the strategic dimensions of Whole Brain Thinking and learn practical tools and techniques that integrate right-brain imagination, artistry and intuition with left-brain [...]
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Posted in arts-in-business on Oct 31st, 2007
I’ve been featured in two publications this month in South Africa:The art of work: Together, art and business will sculpt our futureMarketing Web picked up the story and adapted it”Creativity works: Art and creativity should be used as a role model for business.”
Here is an excerpt:
In a rapidly changing world where tried and tested solutions [...]
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Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?
Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983)
Singapore
This question appears on Canada’s 20$ bill in tiny little mice type, and I love that it is printed on our money. I thought of Roy’s question after my first trip to Singapore last August, because prior to the trip whenever [...]
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Today like every other day
we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down
a musical instrument. Let the beauty you love
be what you do. There are a thousand ways
to kneel down and kiss the ground.
– Rumi
Pure Poetry
It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon in Vancouver and I am listening to [...]
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Posted in Creativity + Innovation, Home on Sep 30th, 2007
I was asked this question recently by a neuroscientist who is interested in conducting a study on creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. I spent a week contemplating the answer and this is what I came up with:
Creativity involves two processes: imaginative thinking, then producing or implementing that which you conceive. If you have ideas, but [...]
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Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using music, improv, storytelling and other arts to improve teamwork by Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman, is now available in a paperback edition and you can buy your copy today at Amazon.The cost is $58.95 USD and if you are buying more than one copy, please contact me [...]
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The Art and Science of Happiness
In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying the science of happiness, and their findings are having an impact on business, economics and government policy.
American psychologist, Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois, says that simply by asking people, how happy they are at various times of the [...]
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