The Creativity at WorkTM Newsletter provides overviews of new research in creativity and innovation, 'best practices' of leading organizations, links to new or relevant websites and an array ideas and techniques from innovation experts. This free newsletter is published monthly via email.
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Leadership
Love is the Answer: Ken Wiesner's leadership style in Municipal Government
Energy Issue: Viginia Satir, Energising employees, Whole Earth Foods, Green Energy
Innovation & Invention
Temple of Invention: The republican temples of Charles L'Enfant.
Attributes of an Innovative Organization
by Ian Rose
Are You too Busy to Innovate? Research findings by Ghoshal Sumantra and Heike Bruch
Consumer Trends: Generation C-(Creativity) | Images and ways of seeing
Social innovation: A Paradigm for Pluralism
Digital, Highly Connected Children: Implications for education. by Prof. Edna Aphek
Smithsonian: Invention at Play
Hazel Henderson: Ethical Marketplace TV | PBS: Cultures and influences of marketing and advertising in US
We Are What We Do
Creativity at Work
Creativity at Work: Principles and Practices: Linda Naiman draws upon the artist Henri Rousseau as a source of inspiration
Ben and Rosamund Zander: The Art of Possibility
Why Not? by Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres. Two Yale profs provide a frame-work for problem solving,
How to Spark Creativity in your Writing. Tips from Michael Ondaatje and other writers
Managing Creativity & Innovation
The Measurement of Creativity: There has been a lot of debate in recent years about measuring the ROI of creativity in business. Ian Rose weighs in.
Who's Bringing You Hot Ideas and How are You Responding? A study by Davenport, Prusak, and Wilson
Meeting Guidelines that foster innovation and improve performance
How to Attract and Keep Talent
The Transformative Power of Art
Artful Making: Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater,
by Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin
The Four Qualities of Artful Making
By Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin
Xerox PARC: Collaboration at the Intersection of Art and Science. An interview with John Seely Brown
Art and Power: A look at Richelieu, Suleyman and Seagrams
Creative Alliances —
The interplay between arts and business by Lotte Darsø
The IDRIART Experience: Arts-in-Business 2000 By Linda Naiman
Seth Kahan: Weaving Together Community,
Care and Knowledge Management at the World Bank
Transformations: "And they’ll beat their swords into plowshares"
Remembering: Contemplations on Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky
Brain Matters: New research and notable stories
The Art and Science of Meshworking: What can brain science teach us about complexity and self-organizing in whole systems?
Seven ways to Optimize your Brain and Your Life, By Dr Amen
Musicians' Brains Differ from Those of Non-musicians
Increase your Vocabulary and Increase your Brain Power
Brain Jazz
Creativity and ADD Meditation and the Brain
Rapaille: The Reptilian brain always wins in the marketplace
Tapping into Genius: Music Brain Research
How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci | What is the recipe for Nobel prize-winning science?
Design
Frank O. Gehry: Thinking out of the box
Does Your Office Feel Like a Zoo? By Judith Heerwagen
Strategic Dimensions of Design Thinking
Massive Change /Bruce Mau | William McDonough and Michael Braungart: The next industrial revolution
Fun Quizzes
How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
Tom Peters: Your Brand Equity Test
Conversation
Conversing like Socrates, by Loren Ekroth
The Art of Conversation: Wisdom Café, Change, and Social Capital
Workplace Conversations, by Loren Ekroth
