Creating photo-based digital art with my iPad
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 [...]
Can Creativity Create Wealth?
I am thrilled to see an economist and policy adviser frame wealth creation in Canada in terms of creativity, and not commodities. What Creates [...]
How Does an Economy Get Creative?
An excerpt from The Boiling Frog Dilemma by economist Todd Hirsch and policy expert Robert Roach. The Creativity Riddle Over the past several years, [...]
Whole-Brain Thinking Brilliantly Exemplified in Mercedes Benz Ad
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 [...]
Lost in Learning: The art of discovery
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 [...]
What does ballet have to do with football? Coach Chris Petersen on power of creative thinking
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 [...]
Why CEOs Say Creativity is the Most Crucial Factor for Future Success
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 [...]
The Creative City and Sustainability
The Creative City and Sustainability: Leadership Lessons for Sustainable Initiatives Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, is a vibrant, global, culturally diverse city [...]
4 Creative Approaches to Career Resilience
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
Willis Harman: On Taking Responsibility for the Whole
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 [...]
Managing a Mid-life Makeover
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:
Books on art, creativity, and neuroscience
Why art and science need each other If you are a scientist you could choose to get nitpicky about whether or not Proust was [...]
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp on LEGO Group Innovation
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Chairman of The LEGO Group, says hIs innovation process began with a question— "How do we think about the future?" Leaders [...]
Does Happiness Affect Your Creativity?
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 [...]
Digital, Highly Connected Children: Implications for education
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, [...]
Artful Creation: Learning-Tales of Arts-in-Business
What happens when the corporate world adopts a strategic approach to art? Is the result mere hot air – and entertainment at best? Or [...]
Transform Your Professional and Personal Life with the Art of Possibility
Ben Zander is a conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was faced with the [...]
On using the transformative power of art in an Israeli school project
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 [...]
Painting Music Live at a Symphonic Performance in Slovenia
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 [...]
The Reptilian brain always wins in the marketplace
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 [...]