Why You Need to Cultivate Your Inner Life (as a Leader)
When it comes to leadership it’s not just about what we do in the world, it’s also about who we are In our quest [...]
3 Keys to Finding a Creative Breakthrough
Shifting from reacting to creating It’s so easy to be reactive about problems and the pressures they cause in today’s fast-paced world. If you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
By Scott Lewis Partner, Tower Stone Group Recently, I spent a stimulating day with Linda Naiman in a seminar organized by my good [...]
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 [...]
How to Reignite Creativity and Re-Energize Your Team When You Start Losing Steam
7 ways to avoid getting bogged down when your project starts to feel like a marathon It's hard to stay creative throughout the day when there are so [...]
How to Quit Stalling and Get Started on Your Creative Project
What is it about new creative projects that are so exciting and yet so hard to begin? Have you ever been flooded with ideas [...]
Adobe Study a Wake-up Call to Invest in Creativity in Business and Education
Adobe's 2016 global study on creativity in business shows that creativity is more important than ever. Key finding: Investing in creativity pays off with tangible [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Creative Leadership
Quotes from leaders in all walks of life who inspire creative leadership and innovation Whenever you have no blueprint to tell you in detail what [...]
What happens after you’ve ignited your creative spark?
Marshall Goldsmith, a renowned business coach, observes when people initiate a personal campaign to improve themselves — for example, shed a bad habit, [...]
Fostering Creativity: Tips for Leaders
How do you encourage creativity in your workplace? Companies that embrace creativity outperform peers and competitors on key business performance indicators, including revenue [...]
What Makes Creative Companies Outperform Competitors?
“Creativity is good business and ultimately drives productivity and efficiency.” If you are reading my blog, then chances are you already value creativity in [...]
7 Keys to Encouraging a Culture of Creativity and Innovation
7 Leadership Practices for Encouraging a Culture of Creativity and Innovation There's a huge disconnect on the subject of innovation between leaders and lower-level [...]