The interplay of business, art and science
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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Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 31 issue 4, has published a special issue on creatively intelligent companies and leaders: Arts-based learning for business Guest edited by Harvey Seifter and Ted Buswick Here is an excerpt : For about 20 combined years, a large part of our professional energies and personal passions have been engaged by [...]
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Jivi Khehra, host of Winds of Change, a new TV show on JoyTV 10 interviews Linda Naiman about art, creativity, teamwork and leadership.
Tune in Saturday Feb 6 at 3pm PST (Vancouver time)
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Here goes… My first movie… clips from my talk about art, design, creativity and leadership at a US government leadership symposium earlier this year.
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What can organizations learn from the Intersection of Business and the Performing Arts? Rochelle T. Mucha, in her new book, Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses, answers this question by examining how principles and practices of performing arts can be used to strengthen alignment, leadership, learning, and performance in organizations. “The theatre is a [...]
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A conversation yesterday with colleague Bob Eckert about creativity, innovation and commerce, got me thinking about the visionary thinking of Willis Harman (1918-1997) founder of the World Business Academy. Harman said, ”Business has become, in this last half century, the most powerful institution on the planet. The dominant institution in any society needs to take responsibility [...]
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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 [...]
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BECKY BERMONT on REDESIGNING LEADERSHIP at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) A student once asked John Maeda, “If RISD is such a creative place, why aren’t we led with more creativity?” That comment has stuck with him. Since both he and our Provost (Chief Academic Officer) are truly artist/administrators (rather than artists-turned-administrators), they have undertaken a quest to [...]
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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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