The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Alchemy of Coaching: Working with Wisdom, Creativity and Innovation, Home on May 6th, 2009
WSJ reports “With layoffs being announced nearly every day, it’s easy to dwell on the possibility of losing your job. Experts say now is the time to find ways to help your company save money and keep it from losing ground. You’ll be more valuable to your firm, but even if you are eventually laid [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Training, Home, arts-in-business on Apr 30th, 2009
(These are some of the questions we are helping clients answer.) How do we continue growing your business amidst an economic downturn? How can you work more effectively with constraints? Do your leaders have a set of principles and methodologies for developing creativity in your organization? How do you keep re-inventing to stay relevant to [...]
Posted in ARTS, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, arts-in-business on Apr 14th, 2009
Think about your creative intelligence during times of stress. What is the quality of your thinking, compared to when you are in flow states (characterized by energized focus, absorption, and being fully engaged)? I’m willing to bet your flow states produce superior results than fear-based solutions.
Posted in BOOKS WORTH READING, Home on Mar 25th, 2009
No I can’t speak Chinese, but if you can here are the details: 本书供培训师、咨询顾问、教育从业者和为员工提供各种类型培训的经理们而编写的。在团队工作中用非传统的方式,通过挖掘参与者的潜在创造力达到拓展新视野的目的。 70个团队建设艺术工具/用音乐、戏剧、故事等手段增进团队合作/国际培训与发展资源库/Orchestrating collaboration at work: 用音乐、戏剧、故事等手段增进团队合作 By 范甘迪, 奈曼 Translated by 童颖, 王淑娟 Published by 上海远东出版社, 2006 ISBN 780706238X, 9787807062387 274 pages The English version is available at Amazon Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using Music, Improv, Storytelling, and Other Arts to Improve [...]
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Events, Home on Mar 12th, 2009
How long is now? A visit last month to The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco inspired the theme for this newsletter. The term was coined by Brian Eno, who noticed when he first moved to New York City, here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here [...]
Posted in CREATIVE ECONOMY, DESIGN, Events, Home, arts-in-business on Jan 31st, 2009
My hope for this New Year is that we find the inspiration, insight and wisdom we need to guide us in finding optimal solutions to the challenges we face. Answers don’t just come from logic and analysis. We also need imagination. One of the ways we can be inspired is through the arts. I’m happy [...]
Posted in Alchemy of Coaching: Working with Wisdom, Home on Oct 25th, 2008
I write a coaching column about workplace challenges at Essence of Life www.eolife.org. I invite you to send in your questions or weigh in with your own insights here. Q. Help! I recently got promoted to a management position at work. How do I find the balance between leading and being in control, without being a control [...]
Posted in Alchemy of Coaching: Working with Wisdom, Creativity and Innovation, Home on Oct 25th, 2008
Q: I am a manager in a large government organization and my team is complaining that our meetings are boring. How can we make our meetings more enjoyable, more engaging and more productive for everyone?
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