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 [...]
Design of Work Experience: How to Create a Winning Company Culture
Karen Jaw-Madson provides a framework—Design of Work Experience—for culture change based on human-centered design principles Your Workplace Culture Matters. Here's why: It's easy to [...]
Can Art Inspire Creativity in the Workplace?
Art has the power to inspire, inform, influence and much more Why not leverage the power of art to inspire creativity at work? [...]
How to Identify and Root Out Assumptions That Keep You Stuck
Question orthodoxies and reframe flawed assumptions that rule your business Assumptions are beliefs we take for granted and accept as true. Most of our assumptions [...]
The Secret to Finding Creative Solutions from Legendary Designers
Do designers have a formula for finding creative solutions? Milton Glaser and Paula Scher provide surprising insights I find it odd that in the [...]
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 [...]
Creative Ways to Celebrate the Holiday Season
Try these creative rituals to make the holiday season memorable and meaningful I believe we are starved in North America, for soul-nourishing [...]
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 [...]
You’re a Genius: Using Reflective Practice to Master the Craft of Leadership
By Steven S Taylor If you want to be good at any art form, you have to master the craft. Artists spend years mastering [...]
Why Your HR Department Should Adopt Design Thinking
How can HR create great employee experiences that empower creativity, collaboration and innovation? Design Thinking is an approach that works Design has a tremendous power [...]
Why Art? It Can Have a Profound Impact on Your Leadership
Why Art? By Scott Lewis Partner, Tower Stone Group Recently, I spent a stimulating day with Linda Naiman in a seminar organized by my [...]
CEOs Discover the Power of Art and What It Can Teach About Leadership
What can the power of art teach CEOs about leadership? I recently had the pleasure of facilitating a leadership retreat for members of [...]
What Makes Nobel Laureates Exceptionally Creative and Innovative?
6 insights from Nobel Laureates on using creativity to discover Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs Have you ever wondered how Nobel Laureates develop original ideas and achieve [...]
Book Review: Boost Your Creativity With These 4 Activity Books by Arts Professionals
Take a deep dive into this collection of inspiring books on the creative process by arts professionals and enrich your creative practice
