Discover ways to make peace with left-brain logic and right-brain imagination, by taking a whole-brain approach to creativity. Learn how to create synergy between imagination, emotion, data and analysis, to produce optimal innovative results. Only a few days left to register for Whole Brain thinking. This is my most requested workshop worldwide. Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate [...]
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What skills and content areas will be growing in importance in the next five years? Join me for a one or two- day workshop on Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and Leadership at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC Dates: Wednesday, November 30 or Wednesday & Thursday, November 30 – December 1, 2011 or Thursday, May [...]
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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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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 at [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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I’ve been featured in two publications this month in South Africa:The art of work: Together, art and business will sculpt our futureMarketing Web picked up the story and adapted it”Creativity works: Art and creativity should be used as a role model for business.” Here is an excerpt: In a rapidly changing world where tried and [...]
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Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using music, improv, storytelling and other arts to improve teamwork by Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman, is now available in a paperback edition and you can buy your copy today at Amazon.The cost is $58.95 USD and if you are buying more than one copy, please contact me for a [...]

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