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Solution-Finding: Leading with Creativity
Date: Tuesday & Wednesday, [...]
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If you are part of a small company based in BC, you may qualify for funding in the Workplace Training for Innovation Program
Please contact me to help you customise a program covering one or more of these areas:
Creativity and innovative training and workplace strategies to increase the long term competiveness of the organization and its [...]
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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 place where [...]
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Time to evolve.
Doesn’t September feel more like the New Year than January? September is the time to complete projects, clear out the old, harvest the fruits of your labours, and prepare the ground for the new. If we are tuned in to the cycles of nature, then we will want to create order and balance [...]
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John Howkins on the Creative Economy and Creative Ecologies
John Howkins has written an article for my blog based on his latest book is Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking is a Proper Job (Creative Economy + Innovation Culture) He is the author of the best-selling book The Creative Economy
“The continual search for novelty that lies [...]
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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 to [...]
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Summer Reading
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
By Jonah Lehrer
If you are a scientist you could choose to get nitpicky about whether or not Proust was a neuroscientist, or you could sit back, relax and enjoy the ride as Lehrer weaves together stories about art, science and creative breakthroughs. Lehrer argues that when it comes to discoveries of the [...]
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Creativity and Innovation Skills Development
with Linda Naiman
Date: March 3, 2008
Our simple survey indicates that professionals desire creativity training that could help them generate solutions to address issues and problems in the daily course of their work.
Creativity at Work uses a balanced approach to developing creativity that includes both analytical and imaginative thinking derived from the [...]
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