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 [...]
Can Art Inspire Creativity in the Workplace?
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 [...]
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 Should Your HR Department Embrace Design Thinking?
Design has a tremendous power to influence human behaviour and thus effect change Richard Farson PhD, psychologist, educator and author of The Power of Design, asserts: [...]
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
I recently had the pleasure of facilitating a leadership retreat for members of the CEO Roundtable in Boston. Here is an account about the [...]