Design Thinking as a Strategy for Innovation
Design thinking can create real competitive advantages [toc] When design principles are applied to strategy and innovation, the success rate for innovation dramatically improves. Design-led ...
Creative Leadership: Who is Bringing You Hot Ideas and How are You Responding?
Employees who introduce new ideas about enhancing management and business performance in organizations, make important contributions to the success of a company. Yet they are ...
Adventures in Learning Through Art and Creativity
I have three stories about adventures in learning about creativity through direct experience. Embodied learning is experience-based learning that occurs by interacting with subject ...
4 ways studying the arts will develop your business skills
"Business has much to learn from the arts." — From the Schumpeter Blog As a pioneer in arts-based learning I'm happy to see this topic ...
7 Antidotes for Workplace Burnout
When people feel pressured to work long hours, and maintain an accelerated pace of work over the long haul, work becomes a form of drudgery ...
Malcolm Gladwell on Embracing Creative Chaos
Malcolm Gladwell on why we need to embrace creative chaos In my experience as a creativity educator, fear of chaos presents one of the biggest ...
Why is Play Essential to Organizational Success?
Why is play essential to organizational success? Top ten reasons to play 1. Play is the path to fun and profit. It is essential ...
Creativity Quiz: How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
Here is a fun creativity quiz: Are you a professional? This short creativity quiz from Accenture will help you understand your thinking style better. The ...
Brain Jazz: A new view of the brain’s inner workings
From the Salk Institute for Biological Studies Jan. 2002 According to accepted dogma, the brain responds to sensory experiences somewhat like an electronic bucket brigade, ...
Dr Amen: Seven Simple Brain-Promoting Nutritional Tips
Dr Amen's seven step plan to get your diet under control and to use food as brain medicine.