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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Do designers have a formula for finding creative solutions? Milton Glaser and Paula Scher provide surprising insights I find it odd that in the [...]
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 [...]
Try These Creative Rituals to Add Meaning and Magic to Your Holiday Season I believe we are starved in North America, for soul-nourishing [...]
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 [...]
By Steven S Taylor If you want to be good at any art form, you have to master the craft. Artists spend years mastering [...]
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 [...]
By Scott Lewis Partner, Tower Stone Group Recently, I spent a stimulating day with Linda Naiman in a seminar organized by my good [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is it about new creative projects that are so exciting and yet so hard to begin? Have you ever been flooded with ideas [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
