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 Effectiveness in the Workplace?
Is Management the Enemy of Creativity? Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Progress Principle (2011) says there’s a crisis in corporate management. [...]
Whatever the Problem, Love Is the Answer: Even in Government! (A true story)
A true story of how one innovator in government resolved seemingly insurmountable emotionally charged conflicts regarding change, and how you too can lead with [...]
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 [...]
Design Work Experiences to Create a Winning Company Culture
Your Workplace Culture Matters. Here's why: It's easy to copy ideas, technology, creativity, and innovation, but what gives a company its most potent competitive [...]
Why Progressive Insurance Uses Art to Inspire Creativity at Work
When I watched a PBS documentary about the Medici's role as the godfathers of the Renaissance, it occurred to me that wherever there is [...]
Are You Stuck on a Problem? Start Questioning Your Assumptions
A great way to get unstuck and find breakthrough ideas is to question orthodoxies and reframe flawed assumptions that rule your business. Assumptions are [...]
The Secret to Finding Creative Solutions from Legendary Designers Milton Glaser and Paula Scher
I find it odd that in the current corporate quest to codify creativity and design thinking, not much is said about the unconscious or [...]
Designed Leadership: 5 Lessons in Strategic Design for Entrepreneurs (or Intrapreneurs)
Drawing on the power of strategic design Moura Quayle has had an amazing career as a landscape architect, urban-systems designer, a strategic-design scholar, senior [...]
4 Practices to Help You Master the Leadership Craft of Connection
Creative leadership depends on how well you create emotional connections with others and your ideas. "Everyone communicates," writes leadership guru John Maxwell, "but very few people [...]