Solution Finding: Leading with Creativity
With Linda Naiman
Feb 9 +10, 2010
Attend 1 or 2 days.
Royal Roads University
Management Certification Program
Description:
Creativity is a core competency for leaders and managers and one of the best ways to set your company apart from the competition. Becoming a skilled solution-finder will make you indispensable in today’s marketplace. [...]
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Posted in Artful Leadership, Events, Home on Sep 10th, 2009
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming HealthCare Leaders’ conference, October 20, in Vancouver BC.
Here’s my topic:
Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee [...]
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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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This post is part of the Blogging Marathon: 24 Hours of Innovation:
We are living in the midst of a seismic shift that calls for us to redefine the way we live and work. This is not a time to hunker down and wait for the turbulence to subside. This is the time to mitigate fear, [...]
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Posted in DESIGN, Events, Home on Mar 4th, 2009
Presented by Linda Naiman
Hosted by Happen.ca
Date: Tues March 31, 2009
Time: 9:00am -10:30am
Venue: Airport Square
1200 W 73rd Ave
Vancouver, BC V6P 6G5
Map
Cost: $10
Design isn’t just for products, it’s also a strategic thinking tool that leads to dramatic new forms of value for organisations such as P&G.
Linda Naiman, a creativity and innovation consultant with an international clientele [...]
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The theme for the this month is arts-based learning and development
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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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