Here is some of the photo-based art I have been creating on my iPad. I've become interested in exploring light, reflections, and patterns, especially in water, as well as ambiguity between the real and [...]
I am thrilled to see an economist and policy adviser frame wealth creation in Canada in terms of creativity, and not commodities. What Creates Wealth? According to Todd Hirsch and Robert Roach, Economic wealth [...]
An excerpt from The Boiling Frog Dilemma by economist Todd Hirsch and policy expert Robert Roach. The Creativity Riddle Over the past several years, economists and politicians in North America have linked economic growth [...]
Mercedes Benz Uses Whole-Brain Thinking in this Left Brain/Right Brain Ad Campaign I love this ad campaign for Mercedes Benz. I know we are supposed to get over the idea about a split [...]
Book Review: Lost in Learning: The art of discovery by Eva Koleva Timothy This is a book of quiet beauty, filled with stories and images about learning and discovery from the great explorers, scientists and artists [...]
It's rare to hear about creativity in sports. Here's an interesting story: BOISE — As the college football world knows, Boise State does things differently, from its blue turf to a roster full of [...]
Creativity is the Most Crucial Factor for Future Success According to the IBM 2010 Global CEO Study, which surveyed 1,500 Chief Executive Officers from 60 countries and 33 industries worldwide, CEOs believe that, "More than [...]
The Creative City and Sustainability: Leadership Lessons for Sustainable Initiatives Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, is a vibrant, global, culturally diverse city which recognizes that culture contributes to the ecosystem and sustainability [...]
In today’s environment, career resilience is an essential attribute for success, even for survival. “If you identify with your job or career, you’re in trouble, because that changes,” says Ms. Naiman
Re-imagining the role of business in society Willis Harman (1918-1997) founder of the World Business Academy (1987)—re-imagined the role of business from being solely focused on profit-making to include taking responsibility for the whole. Here [...]
Linda Naiman, a business and life coach, offers people who have recently been laid off a complimentary 30-minute coaching session [until June 30, 2009] to help spark the process of creative transformation. She suggests considering the following exercises:
Why art and science need each other If you are a scientist you could choose to get nitpicky about whether or not Proust was a neuroscientist, or you could sit back, relax and enjoy the [...]
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Chairman of The LEGO Group, says hIs innovation process began with a question— "How do we think about the future?" Leaders must ask "How do we adapt the enterprise?" Adaptation has [...]
The Relationship Between Happiness and Creativity Teresa Amabile a researcher at Harvard, debunks the myth that emotional pain spurs creativity. "There's this widespread notion that fear and sadness somehow spur creativity. There's even some [...]
By Edna Aphek In the past decades tremendous digital-technological innovations have flooded our lives. The impact of these inventions on socialization, ways of thinking, and modes of learning, is far reaching. The new digital [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
