Featured Books

Reviews and recommendations featuring books on creativity, innovation, leadership, design thinking, and arts-based learning for business

Visit Linda Naiman’s collection of books on leadership, creativity, and innovation on Amazon:

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How to Converse like Socrates

How to Converse like Socrates: Guidelines from Socrates’ Way by Ronald Gross and Michael Gelb Until recently, when I listened to an audio-course on Socrates ...

How to Converse like Socrates2025-10-20T15:19:57-07:00

The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (An Excerpt)

If you would like a more comprehensive understanding of design thinking, design inquiry, and design culture, from a systemic perspective, you will gain many useful insights ...

The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (An Excerpt)2025-10-20T15:19:57-07:00

The Value of Deep Play and its Impact on Learning and the Imagination

We need to play more. Most of us work too hard and we don’t take enough time to play. Play generates joy and replenishes ...

The Value of Deep Play and its Impact on Learning and the Imagination2025-10-20T15:19:59-07:00

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 learning ...

Lost in Learning: The art of discovery2025-10-20T15:19:59-07:00

Arts-based Learning for Business

Arts-based learning for business: Creatively Intelligent companies The growing use of arts-based learning reflects a dramatic shift in the boundaries that previously defined the limits ...

Arts-based Learning for Business2025-10-20T15:19:59-07:00

The Serious Side of Play

Think about your creative intelligence during times of stress. What is the quality of your thinking, compared to when you are in flow states (characterized by energized focus, absorption, and being fully engaged)? I'm willing to bet your flow states produce superior results than fear-based solutions.

The Serious Side of Play2025-10-20T15:20:00-07:00
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