Vancouver skyline. Photo courtesy of Thomas Quine
This month the City of Vancouver is in the spotlight as it prepares to host the 2010 Olympics. In honour of the occasion, I offer a Vancouver success story about urban renewal and revitalisation:
The Creative City and Sustainability: Leadership Lessons for Sustainable Initiatives
Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, [...]
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Posted in Home on Dec 4th, 2009
Introducing the Management Innovation Index© to North America
Individual • Practice • Strategy • Environment • Culture
The three big challenges for companies over the next generation are going to be:
Adaptability: How you build things that can transform themselves.
Innovation: How you mobilise the imagination of every single person in your organisation.
Engagement: How you create organisations that are so engaging emotionally [...]
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Posted in ARTS, CREATIVE ECONOMY, Home on Nov 20th, 2009
Why the arts matter
When times get tough and choices must be made, it is often the arts that lose. Why is this so? When compared to health or human service needs, the arts are often viewed as less important and therefore more discretionary in nature. But this line of thinking misses the [...]
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One of the highlights of Transformational Leadership for the Age of Innovation Forum was a passionate discussion led by David Fushtey of the Governance Counsel who provoked us with questions innovators don’t often think about.
Ralph Kerle summarised highlights in his Creative Leadership Forum blog:
Fushtey believes governance is as important as sustainability and totally underestimated when we begin to think about innovation [...]
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