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“We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways.”
Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation

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7 Reasons Creativity is Essential to Your Personal Life

1) Survival That which can be automated and outsourced will be automated and outsourced. Here’s the tough news:  As the global market place continues to become more and more competitive, those jobs and enterprises that a machine can do faster or someone else can do cheaper will go the way of the dinosaur and the […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Science + Technology, Self-Expression

The Power of One: When You Change Your Own Way of Being, You Change the Whole World

Do you desire to build cultures of innovation in your organization or among the networks of people in your life? Here is a great video demonstraiting the power each and every one of us has. When we allow our playful, creative selves to come to the surface, the effects are powerful and amazing; we instantly […]

Filed Under: Art + Business, Self-Expression Tagged With: Innovation

Creative Insight and the Golden Gate Bridge

This video is part of a series on San Francisco Bay Area creativity and innovation by creativity expert, Austin Hill Shaw. In this edition, Austin used the origins of the Golden Gate Bridge to explain the nature of creative insight and how the Golden Gate can be seen as the engine of innovation in the San […]

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Transcendence, Transformation, and Transmutation: The Secret Links Between, Insight, Innovation, and Healing

This is a follow up talk to the Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression

Filed Under: Art + Business, Religion + Spirituality, Science + Technology, Self-Expression Tagged With: Health, Innovation, Insight, Psychology, Spirituality

What does the Innovation Required to Restructure the Military Have to Do with the Improv of The Jam Band, The Grateful Dead?

Here is a fantastic discussion on chaos, creativity, and innovation on KQED’s Forum, where Ori Brafman, author of The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success and Keith Sawyer, the Author of Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity examine some really profound ideas.

Filed Under: Art + Business, Science + Technology Tagged With: Innovation

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