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, [...]
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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 [...]
What Makes Creative Companies Outperform Competitors?
“Creativity is good business and ultimately drives productivity and efficiency.” If you are reading my blog, then chances are you already value creativity in [...]
Leadership insight: How to make a decision in the “yellow-light” zone
Decision-making is easy at a red or green light, but what about the yellow light? An aha moment from a coaching client. One of [...]
Are you too Busy to Innovate?
When I ask corporate clients what their biggest barrier to innovation is, they mostly say they are too busy to innovate —must be why this widely-circulated cartoon [...]
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 [...]
April is Poetry Month: Celebrate With These Ideas
What is Poetry Good for? Here’s what Dylan Thomas had to say about poetry: "Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, [...]
How to Cultivate Your Creative Brain
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 [...]
What really fosters innovation in the workplace (infographic)
This handy infographic* captures findings from the latest in research on what fosters innovation and what impedes it. A holistic approach to innovation ensures success As you can see, [...]
Richard Diebenkorn: Notes to myself on beginning a painting
Richard Diebenkorn: Seawall When I studied art at CCA in Oakland California, Richard Diebenkorn was one of my favourite painters (he [...]
Books to Stimulate your Imagination
These books will help you see things in new ways: What Poetry Brings to Business By Clare Morgan, with Kirsten Lange and Ted Buswick [...]
Organizational Aesthetics: How the arts inform organizational learning and development
Organizational Aesthetics is a journal about how the five senses and artistry inform business, non-profit, and government organizations. If you are interested in the [...]
Creating photo-based digital art with my iPad
Here is some of the photo-based art I have been creating on my iPad. I've become interested in exploring light, reflections, and patterns, especially [...]
Neuroscience takes us inside the learning brain
Cognitive neuroscience will shape the future of corporate learning practices. I love cognitive neuroscience because the discoveries from this emerging field of study validate [...]
Wheel of Life Assessment Tool
Wheel of Life Assessment Tool Use the wheel of life assessment tool to assess your level of satisfaction or creative fulfillment in each area [...]
Scientist finds link between the neurobiology of music and language
"The brain on arts is different than the everyday brain." —Charles Limb, neuroscientist Charles Limb, a brain scientist at Johns Hopkins is finding a neurological basis [...]
Renew your Creative Energy with a Clean Sweep
Feeling Stuck? Renew your Creative Energy with a Clean Sweep If you have ever reached an impasse in your career, or on a creative project, [...]
The Progress Principle and the Power of Small Wins
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. The Progress Principle describes the [...]
Meetings Go Better with Art
When it comes to inspiring creativity in your team and engaging participation, meetings go better with art Here is an example from an innovation workshop [...]
How to Boost Your Powers of Influence and Persuasion
When it comes to putting creativity to work, the biggest challenge usually isn’t about coming up with ideas, it’s getting those ideas listened to, [...]
Can Meditation Make You More Creative?
Scientific study explores connection between meditation and creativity How interesting! Cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University used creativity tasks [...]
What are the benefits of a fine arts degree?
Fine Arts Degrees Open Doors I was featured in the Toronto Star about the benefits of having a fine arts degree in the workplace. [...]
Give Your Dream a Plan: 7 Questions to Ignite Extraordinary Results in Your Business
If you only buy one book about creating your vision, I recommend Give Your Dream a Plan: 7 Questions to Ignite Extraordinary Results in Your [...]
The Alchemy of Coaching: Finding the gold of wisdom on your hero’s journey
The Alchemy of Coaching is for those on a Hero's Journey looking for the gold of wisdom that will transform their life or work. [...]
How Does an Economy Get Creative?
An excerpt from The Boiling Frog Dilemma by economist Todd Hirsch and policy expert Robert Roach. The Creativity Riddle Over the past several years, [...]
Leadership Craft Leadership Art: Insights on leadership development
Leadership Craft Leadership Art provides cogent insights and observations on the theory and practice of leadership development "Most of the practices around the art of [...]
Every Leader is an Artist
How the World’s Greatest Artists Can Make You a More Creative Leader This is an excerpt from Every Leader is an Artist by Michael [...]
How to Make Your Life and Work a Work of Art
What would your life and work look like, be like, feel like, if it were a work of art? How we choose what we [...]
5 Discovery Skills That Form the Secret Sauce of Innovation
How do innovators come up with groundbreaking new ideas? If it were possible to discover the inner workings of the masters’ minds, what could [...]
Sanjay Gupta taps into both sides of his brain
Sarah Hamsen has written an inspiring interview with Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and a medical reporter for CNN, about his life and work. He [...]