Reviews and recommendations featuring books on creativity, innovation, leadership, design thinking, and arts-based learning for business
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Why Art and Creativity Matter While many of us perceive art merely as entertainment, there exists a profound depth to its functions. Art [...]
Build your creative resilience capabilities We see the world through pre-existing frames and these frames help us interpret reality. Frames provide [...]
Creative Acts for Curious People includes more than eighty assignments that take you deeper into the famed d.School approach to design thinking.
These books on creativity offer ways business leaders can support creativity, innovation, and talent in the new future of work Big Little Breakthroughs by Josh [...]
One thing I know for sure is that my creative practice keeps me grounded and connected to my innermost self, and the larger [...]
Marilyn Norry on writing women's history, starting with your mother It never occurred to me to write my mother’s story until I met Marilyn and [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Take a deep dive into this collection of inspiring books on the creative process by arts professionals and enrich your creative practice
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 [...]
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present If you [...]
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 [...]
Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success When I was a designer of marketing communications in a former [...]
What is Poetry Good for? Here’s what Dylan Thomas had to say about poetry: "Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, [...]
Dr Shelley Carson has devised a useful framework for developing your creative brain, based on findings from neuro-imaging, psycho-physiological studies, and her own research [...]
Richard Diebenkorn: Seawall When I studied art at CCA in Oakland California, Richard Diebenkorn was one of my [...]
These books will help you see things in new ways: What Poetry Brings to Business By Clare Morgan, with Kirsten Lange and Ted Buswick [...]