Creativity and innovation techniques, tips and tools
Capture Your Aspirations and Create Your Future
It has been said that every moment and every day offers us a fresh new beginning. "In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but ...
Celebrated Authors Share Their Secrets To Creativity in “Light the Dark” (And We Can All Benefit!)
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Creative Process What inspires you? That is the question Joe Fassler asked 48 of the most celebrated authors in ...
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 are ...
Make the Holiday Season Memorable with Creative Rituals
Try These Creative Rituals to Add Meaning and Magic to Your Holiday Season I believe we are starved in North America, for soul-nourishing rituals ...
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 connect." ...
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 at ...
Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything – Book review
If you are interested in unlocking your creativity, you will love David Usher’s new book Let the Elephants Run. You can flip through the book for ...
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, exercise ...
Creative Anarchy: Book Review
Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success When I was a designer of marketing communications in a former life, ...
Looking for Creative Inspiration? Go on a Haiku Walkabout —Here’s how
I participated in a haiku workshop recently at Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival in Vandusen Gardens. Poet Michael Dylan Welch led us on what he called ...