Teaching Creativity by Asking Questions
Teaching Creativity by Asking Questions By Garreth Heidt Perkiomen My first act in class this year was to have the students create "Creativity Journals" [...]
Artful Creation: Learning-Tales of Arts-in-Business
What happens when the corporate world adopts a strategic approach to art? Is the result mere hot air – and entertainment at best? Or [...]
Does Your Office Feel Like a Zoo?
“More time and creativity has gone into designing natural habitats for zoo animals than in creating comfortable office spaces for humans.” By Judith Heerwagen, [...]
Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater By Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin A stage production and the development of your next product have [...]
Transform Your Professional and Personal Life with the Art of Possibility
Ben Zander is a conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was faced with the [...]
Master the Art of Conversation as a Crucible for Transformation
"Small groups exploring common questions and learning that others are doing the same, has always been the locus for large scale transformative change." —Juanita [...]
On using the transformative power of art in an Israeli school project
Transformations: "And they’ll beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks"… By Edna Aphek, Jerusalem, Israel Background As I am writing [...]
Painting Music Live at a Symphonic Performance in Slovenia
This summer I lived a dream that wasn't even my own dream; it was better than anything I could have imagined. I was invited by [...]
The Reptilian brain always wins in the marketplace
Clotaire Rapaille on the reptilian brain and how the PT Cruiser was born "My theory is very simple: The reptilian always wins. I don't [...]
Teaching for Creativity in Science
By Lee Gass PhD In my first year of teaching high school biology I discovered a large pile of scientific magazines. I hired students [...]
Fostering Innovation in Business: Advice from Tech Executives
What do companies actually do to foster creativity and innovation? We know that in the world of technology, wealth flows directly from innovation. We [...]