Teaching Creativity by Asking Questions By Garreth Heidt Perkiomen My first act in class this year was to have the students create "Creativity Journals" in which we would practice different techniques and exercises designed [...]
What happens when the corporate world adopts a strategic approach to art? Is the result mere hot air – and entertainment at best? Or does art offer an actual potential for developing the corporate [...]
“More time and creativity has gone into designing natural habitats for zoo animals than in creating comfortable office spaces for humans.” By Judith Heerwagen, Ph.D. Smart Space: Thinking Outside the Cube Organizations demand high [...]
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater By Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin A stage production and the development of your next product have a lot in common. If you don't know where you're [...]
Ben Zander is a conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was faced with the same problem every year for 25 years: Teaching students who [...]
"Small groups exploring common questions and learning that others are doing the same, has always been the locus for large scale transformative change." —Juanita Brown The Art of Conversation One of the ways we [...]
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 this description of an activity for Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) [...]
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 Miha Pogacnik to the Art & Business Conference (IDRIART) at [...]
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 care what you're going to tell me intellectually. I don't [...]
By Lee Gass PhD In my first year of teaching high school biology I discovered a large pile of scientific magazines. I hired students to examine, cross-index, and enter hundreds of articles into a [...]
What do companies actually do to foster creativity and innovation? We know that in the world of technology, wealth flows directly from innovation. We know too that for innovation to flourish we must create [...]
