Articles and blog posts on art, leadership, creativity, innovation, and neuroscience.
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 the messy stage of the creative process, managers who are inclined [...]
Try this powerful question-storming technique to enhance creative problem-solving Give your team a brain jolt to kickstart creativity, by asking them to question-storm 50 questions in 15 minutes about your topic. It's a jolt [...]
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 in the expert's mind there are few." —Shunryu Suzuki Someone [...]
Gain insights into creating sustainable innovation by learning from architects such as Bjarke Ingels In previous posts I have written about applying Design Thinking to your innovation process for business growth, and why your HR department [...]
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 the world--including Elisabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, and Stephen [...]
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 copy ideas, technology, creativity, and innovation, but what gives a [...]
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 unconscious -- and for good reason. We would be terribly [...]
Do designers have a formula for finding creative solutions? Milton Glaser and Paula Scher provide surprising insights I find it odd that in the current corporate quest to codify creativity and design thinking, not [...]
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 leader in government, university dean, and co-founder of UBC Sauder [...]
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 and celebrations that give us access to the numinous [...]
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." What are the distinctions between communicating and connecting? Jon Hauser, [...]
By Steven S Taylor If you want to be good at any art form, you have to master the craft. Artists spend years mastering their craft and then their whole lives working on that [...]
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 to influence human behaviour and thus effect change Richard Farson [...]
By Scott Lewis Partner, Tower Stone Group Recently, I spent a stimulating day with Linda Naiman in a seminar organized by my good friend Loren Carlson and his CEO Roundtable. Linda began with [...]
6 insights from Nobel Laureates on using creativity to discover Nobel Prize-winning breakthroughs Have you ever wondered how Nobel Laureates develop original ideas and achieve breakthrough discoveries? What can Nobel Prize-winning scientists teach business leaders [...]
Take a deep dive into this collection of inspiring books on the creative process by arts professionals and enrich your creative practice
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 many demands on your time and energy. To avoid getting bogged [...]
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 the onset --but lost your resolve when faced with [...]
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 benefits – from higher income to greater national competitiveness and [...]
Eric Kandel —a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and neuroscientist—explores the parallels between art and science Art and science have a long interconnected history, and I am fascinated by what we can experience when they intersect, especially now that [...]
