Take advantage of the season and unlock your creative potential
Introducing my new online course on Creative Resilience: Learn how to unlock your creative potential and navigate change with agility, optimism and resilience. [...]
22 Tips for Cultivating Your Well-Being at Work
A holistic approach to cultivating your well-being at work Develop your creative resilience Find a renewed sense of meaning and purpose in your work [...]
Your guide to successful brainstorming
How to run a successful brainstorming session and avoid the traps that cause brainstorming to fail This step-by-step guide will help [...]
Three Keys to Creative Resilience to Help Turn Obstacles Into Opportunities
Build your creative resilience capabilities We see the world through pre-existing frames and these frames help us interpret reality. Frames provide [...]
Book Review: Creative Acts for Curious People
Creative Acts for Curious People includes more than eighty assignments that take you deeper into the famed d.School approach to design thinking.
3 Books on Creativity to Help You Flourish in the Future at Work
These books on creativity offer ways business leaders can support creativity, innovation, and talent in the new future of work Big Little Breakthroughs by Josh [...]
Do Positive or Negative Emotions Make You More Creative?
Conventional wisdom from the field of psychology tells us that positive emotions are most conducive to creativity while negative emotions are detrimental. Yet, negative [...]
How to Improve Your Powers of Observation
Why you need to sharpen your powers of observation Highly successful Innovators including artists, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs, tend to be keen observers of [...]
Why You Need to Cultivate Your Inner Life (as a Leader)
When it comes to leadership it’s not just about what we do in the world, it’s also about who we are In our quest [...]
Discover the Secrets to a Deeper, Wiser, Creative Life
One thing I know for sure is that my creative practice keeps me grounded and connected to my innermost self, and the larger [...]
3 Keys to Finding a Creative Breakthrough
Shifting from reacting to creating It’s so easy to be reactive about problems and the pressures they cause in today’s fast-paced world. If you [...]
The Must-Have Skills You Need to Compete in the Age of A.I.
How will you face disruption and flourish in this brave new world of A.I.? Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalization experts, [...]
Writing women’s history: Why you need to write your mother’s story
Marilyn Norry on writing women's history, starting with your mother It never occurred to me to write my mother’s story until I met Marilyn and [...]
Jon Kolko on Creative Clarity & Bringing Creative Thinking Into Your Company
Managing 'wild and unpredictable' creative chaos in business I believe creative chaos is the biggest fear business managers have about creativity. Whenever we get to [...]
Spark Creativity in Your Team by Question-Storming Before Problem-Solving
Try this powerful question-storming technique to enhance creative problem-solving Give your team a brain jolt to kickstart creativity, by asking them to question-storm 50 [...]
Capture Your Aspirations and Create Your Future
It has been said that every moment and every day offers us a fresh new beginning. "In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, [...]
Why Design and Systemics Are Crucial to Sustainable Innovation
Gain insights into creating sustainable innovation by learning from architects such as Bjarke Ingels In previous posts I have written about applying Design Thinking to your [...]
How Do You Resolve the Clash Between Creativity and Productivity?
Resolving the clash between creativity and effectiveness in the workplace Is Management the Enemy of Creativity? Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School professor and author [...]
Whatever the Problem, Love Is the Answer: Even in Government! (A true story)
Whatever the Problem, Love Is the Answer A true story of how one innovative leader resolved a seemingly insurmountable emotionally charged conflict and how [...]
Celebrated Authors Share Their Secrets To Creativity in “Light the Dark” (And We Can All Benefit!)
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Creative Process What inspires you? That is the question Joe Fassler asked 48 of the most celebrated authors [...]